Healthy Eating Today

I’ve just got finished reading “The diabetes code” by Jason Fung. Very interesting book.

The book is basically about the misuse of insulin to treat type two diabetes and the massive role carbs and insulin have to play in the disease and fat gain - the fat gain mainly due to denovo lipogenesis in the liver (excess carbs transformed into lipids).

Considering the huge impact carbs have and s...

During the summer after my senior year of high s...

Vegan diets are the best for athletes: Review reveals cutting out meat 'boosts heart health, endurance and recovery'

• Venus Williams, Lewis Hamilton, David Haye and Derrick Morgan are already fans
• Doctors in the US reviewed the current evidence for the trendy diet
• High intake of vitamins and minerals keeps inflammation low, experts said 

Depression has been called the common cold of psychiatric disorders, and at this point, huge numbers of Americans take antidepressant drugs. But there may be a better way, since resistance training treats depression.

Depression is common

Antidepressant drug use is widespread, and 11% of Americans over the age of 12 take one. When broken down by age group and sex, we find that 23% of women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants. See graph below. (Full discussion

Well today... I'm heading up to Auckland to babysit Steve 'n' Bex's kids so they can go out to his end of year work do.

Before I leave I have to make sure I have everythi...

Editor's note: In the often-confusing world of nutrition research, I have a simple personal rule of thumb: Never do anything — eat a certain food, stop eating a food, take a vitamin — based on just one study. Wait for replication, for consensus, for gold-standard trials. But Nutrition Action, the newsletter of the non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest, recently published a fascinating article highlighting five pivotal studies so game-...

Researchers from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Seville have recently published a study in which they state that diets supplemented with aqueous extract of Annona muricata L. leaves can prevent the symptoms associated with fibromyalgia, so improving the lives of these patients.

We were surprised to hear this Radio New Zealand interview with Jim Mann regarding a Chinese study he co-authored.[1] In it he predicts various terrible things for people eating LCHF diets, which we think is out of line and not supported by the study.

In fact, the LCHF and Paleo community have been warning about exactly the type of diet that was used in t...

Chris Pratt is shedding some pounds before his wedding. The Guardians of the Galaxy star, who recently announced his engagement to Katherine Schwarzenegger, is following the Daniel Fast, an eating plan inspired by the Bi...