Macronutrients

The Dairy Dilemma: Part 3: Cancer

June 21, 2019 |

In 2015 the results of an interesting cohort study from Sweden were published on the subject of dairy intake and cancer (1). Researchers looked at 22,788 lactose-intolerant participants and their immediate family members (who were not lactose-intolerant). Because individuals with lactose intolerance usually follow recommendations to avoid milk and other dairy products they can be…

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Does Eating Less Carbohydrate Promote Higher Fat Burning?

May 3, 2019 |

Proponents of very-low-carbohydrate diets such as ketogenic diets make the claim that there is a “metabolic advantage” in restricting carbohydrates for enhancing body fat loss. A quick internet search will find statements such as…. The ketogenic diet “involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. This reduction in carbs puts your body into…

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Fiber is the Indicator of Carbohydrate Quality

March 22, 2019 |

A recent study published in the prestigious journal “The Lancet” brought to my mind the interesting subject of dietary fiber and started me on a quest to discover our present state of understanding of the health benefits of this rather unglamorous food component. Fiber has been mentioned many times before in this blog but has…

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Eating Fat and Your Microbiome

March 4, 2019 |

The media has been sending out very mixed messages in the last few years regarding the effects of fat in our daily diet. Some headlines announce “Fat is Back!” while serious scientific research that gathers evidence about the very real harms of eating saturated fat are quietly relegated to the background. The scientific community is…

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Carb Confusion

January 18, 2019 |

Carbohydrates have a reputation problem. This is no fault of their own but is due to widespread misunderstanding about what carbohydrates are. For instance it is commonly (and mistakenly) believed that carbohydrates are detrimental to human health; that the low-carb diet is the one to turn to for weight loss; that somehow the human body…

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