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Beating the virus: We need to cut glucose and prescription drugs not calories and fat

7 by / on 4 Aug 2020, / in low carb diet

By Jerome Burne It’s official. […]

Go Hybrid. Humans are designed to run on both fat and carbs for fuel. So use them both

11 by / on 14 Mar 2019, / in Hybrid Diet

By Jerome Burne The Hybrid Diet […]

Want to know how to cut human fuel consumption? Ask car manufacturers how they do it.

7 by / on 11 Mar 2018, / in low carb diet

By Rob Verkerk Editor’s Introduction: Why […]

How evidence based medicine is failing patients. What needs to be done to fix it

15 by / on 10 Jul 2015, / in evidence based medicine

It’s no secret that there are serious problems with the practice of scientific evidence based medicine (EBM). It’s obviously a good idea to have a system for ensuring treatments are safe and effective. But as a defence against dangerous or poor drugs, the working of our current one makes the pre-crash banking regulation look rigorous.

New wonder weight-loss drug. Don’t worry about the cancer

13 by / on 13 Feb 2015, / in weight loss

Liraglutide hit the headlines in January because it had just been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of obesity, to be marketed as “Saxenda”. The EMA had previously approved it for type 2 diabetes in July 2009. In America the approval for obesity had come a month earlier in December 2014.

High fat low carb diet for diabetes: A GP’s tale

100 by / on 13 Nov 2014, / in low carb diet

A few years ago Dr David Unwin stumbled upon the website for patients with diabetes, fairly easily confused with the official diabetes charity site. It was a revelation. “It had over 100,000 members and one of the most popular topics was the low carb high fat diet,” he says.

Twelve reasons why diabetes charities should ditch the low fat diet and recommend low carbs

8 by / on 31 Aug 2014, / in diabetes, low carb diet, low fat diet

If you know anything about nutrition, and especially if you have friends or people in your family with diabetes, you have probably wondered: Why are diabetics advised to follow a low fat diet?
It means you will eat lots of carbohydrates, which get turned into extra blood glucose. Odd surely when the key aim of diabetes treatment is to keep blood sugar low? … (Read More…)

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