Dr Robert Lustig is on a bit of a mission, he believes that high sugar intake, including fructose, is responsible for the obesity epidemic, and could be responsible for 35 million deaths worldwide, which if proved, would be the highest…
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Can you be addicted to Carbs?
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Can you be addicted to carbs? I think you can. One thing I do know, is that high sugar content does not make you feel full. When was the last time you drank a can of coke, fruit juice a…
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Eat the entire Fruit, don’t drink the Calories in the Juice
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Fruit Juice is good for us, right? In Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig, he argues that concentrated fruit juice has a high calorie content and provokes a high level of insulin (amongst other things). It also contains high levels…
Book Reviews, Losing Weight
Book Review: Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig
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This was the second book I read trying to understand how my weight loss had worked. It is a very informative and although written by a doctor, is very easy to read and understand. The fundamental point is that if…
Book Reviews, Losing Weight
The New High Protein Diet by Dr Charles Clark and Maureen Clark
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The New High Protein Diet by Dr Charles Clark and Maureen Clark. Going from 19.5 to 18.5 stone was fairly easy – just cut out soft drinks and start to eat foods that made me feel fuller. About this time…
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Voluntary Deal between Industry and Government re Fat
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Just seen on the news that twelve companies including Morrisons, Subway and Nestlé have signed up to reduce the amount of saturated fat in foods, citing the link to heart disease. My view is that for sure this is something…
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Too much Protein that’s Dangerous isn’t it?
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My wife was telling one of her workmates my story how I had lost three and a half stone and was the same weight at nearly 50 as I was when I was 25. She replied “I’m not doing that,…
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Probiotics
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I am usually sceptical at adverts, would much rather work things out for myself. I have never tried probiotics although I like yoghurt, because it sounded to me too much like health food. Let me digress. I am a big…
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What Happened Next
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So far in the story, I had decided to stop drinking coca cola, and count calories at the same time monitoring how different foods made me feel, mainly how long I could go without feeling hungry. It quickly became apparent…
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Counting Calories
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The next thing I did was download a free calorie counter app for my iPhone 4. I downloaded the free DailyBurn (www.dailyburn.com) from the AppStore, set myself up on a low carb diet, and used the food database in this…