Tag Archives: Obesity

Sugar Sugar Everywhere

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Robert Barrington

raditional diets are devoid of meaningful levels of refined carbohydrates, particularly sugar. However, changes to the composition of the typical human diet have occurred over the last 100 years in Western nations. The increasing intakes of sugar and other fructose … Continue reading →

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Alkylresorcinols: Whole Grain Antioxidants

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Alkylresorcinols are lipid polyphenols which structurally possess a long aliphatic chains with a polyphenolic resorcinol head. Alkylresorcinols are found in the bran of cereal grains of wheat, rye and barley, but are generally rare in nature and so present in … Continue reading →

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Fatty Liver: Bad News

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

arbohydrates are increasingly being seen as the cause of weight gain and obesity. More specifically, overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates are now considered to be a direct cause of insulin resistance, which subsequently causes development of the metabolic syndrome … Continue reading →

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Body Mass Index and Mortality

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Robert Barrington

here is some controversy as to whether excess weight increases mortality. Conventional wisdom suggests that being overweight increases the risk of disease and death, and to a certain extent this is true. However, researchers and the mainstream medical establishment have … Continue reading →

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Intramuscular Fat and Insulin Resistance

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Robert Barrington

The metabolic syndrome (syndrome X) is increasingly being seen as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome is a group of metabolic abnormalities that are believed to be caused by insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is characterised by a … Continue reading →

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Obesity and Hypertension: Fructose Again?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Robert Barrington

eing overweight may significantly increase the risk of a number of diseases. In particular, individuals with a body mass index of over ~27 kg/m2 are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The exact relationship between cardiovascular disease and obesity … Continue reading →

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Fat People Just Need to Exercise to Lose Weight. Really?

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Robert Barrington

here is still a widely held belief that obesity is caused by a simple positive energy balance that results from too much food and too little exercise. Proponents of the ‘eat-too-much, do-too-little’ theory of obesity therefore suggest that a cure … Continue reading →

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Home Alone: More On Childhood Obesity

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Robert Barrington

besity was once considered a simple problem of energy balance. Theory suggested that overconsumption of food, any food, and a lack of physical activity, creates a positive energy balance that causes a slow but gradual accumulation of body fat. This … Continue reading →

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Upper and Lower Body Fat Differences

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

he old obesity paradigm suggests that a positive energy balance causes accumulation of energy which is subsequently stored as fat in adipose tissue. However, recent evidence suggests that the situation is far more complex than this. It is considered that … Continue reading →

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Fructose: More on Rats and Insulin Resistance

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Robert Barrington

That fructose can cause insulin resistance has been demonstrated in the nutritional literature. Because sucrose (table sugar) contains a moiety of fructose, sugar is known to cause insulin resistance in mammals. Many experiments have been performed in rats showing that … Continue reading →

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