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Reducing carbohydrates and sugar. (89 posts)

Study: It's All About The Calories

If you've taken your dieting advice from pop diet book authors in recent years, you'd think that calories are not important or at least of secondary importance when it comes to battling the bulge. The largest dietary trial of its kind - published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that calories matter - no matter how you split them.

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30 comments · March 2, 2009

All Calories are Not Created Equal

Calorie counting. Just reading those two words probably made your face wrinkle up a bit with discontent. Who the heck has time in their day to calculate how many calories are in each meal they consume, let alone their total caloric intake for a day, week, month, etc.? Besides, calories aren't the real problem anyway, right? Um...not exactly.

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24 comments · December 2, 2008

Calories or Insulin: Which is Worse for the Waistline?

Control calories or control insulin... or both? Which is more important when it comes to battling extra pounds? Hint... there's no simple answer.

If you've read any diet book released in the past 5-10 years, you are probably convinced that excess calories are off the hook and the insulin is the devil when it comes to packing on the pounds.

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18 comments · November 18, 2008

Mediterranean and Low Carb Diets Shine in Study

A landmark study comparing Low fat, Low carb and Mediterranean diets over a 2 year period has shown low carb and Mediterranean diets to be favorable alternatives to low fat. The study looked at weight loss, blood lipids, glycemic control and inflammation.

Let's explore the study details and see what applications may arise from it.

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34 comments · July 17, 2008

Big Breakfast Diet: A Diet That Works?

Stop me if you've heard this before... but before you click out, keep reading - it gets interesting. Eating a big breakfast with copious amounts of (gulp) carbs and protein, followed by a low carb, low calorie diet the rest of the day has shown some pretty promising results - and get this; obliterates the low carb only! This according to a new study presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

I will now attempt to break this down in the simplest terms possible (so that I can understand what I've written).

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24 comments · June 26, 2008

The Good and the Bad of Good Calories, Bad Calories

Now that the dust has settled a bit after the much ballyhooed release of Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, I hereby offer a critique of it. It took me a while to finally get a copy, read and digest it, plus a 2 week decompression exercise that consisted of reading nothing but People Magazine. Note: Regina Wilshire wrote a fantastic synopsis/commentary of the book here.

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69 comments · March 14, 2008

Good Calories, Bad Calories

In the recently published book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, Gary Taubes challenges our dietary beliefs, often accepted as true, by approaching the published research from the perspective of a skeptic.

Taubes finds much of what we think lacks support from findings from data published throughout the last century.

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55 comments · January 28, 2008

Chuck the Apples, Pass the Mashed Potatoes?

For those of us who feel virtuous choosing a big bowl of fruit salad over a serving of mashed potatoes or pasta: a new research report warns that we may not be choosing as wisely as we think. The researchers say fructose, even when consumed in whole fruits, may be more of a problem than starchy foods when it comes to insulin regulation, diabetes and obesity.

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28 comments · December 20, 2007

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