Researchers have found that feeding young rats diet food increases, instead of decreases, their chances of becoming obese. They believe the results directly correlate with dieting in young humans.Â
It seems to me the problem is that we are trying to replace food with non-food. If you’re used to eating fruit, rather than fruit juice, then your body senses […]
ScienceDaily: Dieting Does Not Work, Researchers Report
Want to lose weight? Whatever you do, don’t go on a diet. According to this study, the vast majority of people who go on diets end up weighing more after two years than they did before the diet. In fact, they found the number one predictor of weight gain […]
Nightline ran a story on calorie restriction this week, and I thought I should make a comment as to how this relates to preventing insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. As noted in the program, calorie restriction is more about living longer than about losing weight. Of course, consuming very few calories per day will certainly […]
Diabetes pill works — but at what cost? This Robert Bazell piece points out the absurdity of taking drugs to prevent diabetes. Yes, the drugs work. They work very well. But with a price tag of $120/month, couldn’t you invest in some extra vegetables and some jogging shoes?
Seriously, many low income people will likely be […]
The news from this morning from the NIH is that One Third of Adults with Diabetes Still Don’t Know They Have It. That’s a pretty frightening statistic, as type II diabetes is one of the world’s greatest killers. As I’ve said elsewhere, when you move from pre-diabetes to full diabetes, you are aging about twice […]