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Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...

Labels: arterial stiffness, diabetes, gender, glucose, heart disease

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If you are interested in the connection between blood glucose control and heart disease, you have probably done your homework. This is a sca...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, glucose, heart disease, J curve, research

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Jeff O’Connell is the Editor-in-Chief for Bodybuilding.com , a former executive writer for Men’s Health , and former Editor-in-Chief of Musc...

Labels: book review, diabetes, glucose, glycation

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For as long as diets existed there have been influential proponents, or believers, who at some point had what they thought were epiphanies. ...

Labels: body fat, carbohydrates, glucose, insulin, my experience, tumor necrosis factor-alpha

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One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

Labels: compensatory adaptation, cortisol, diabetes, glucose, glycation, glycogen depletion, growth hormone, HbA1c, insulin, intermittent fasting, research

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Compensatory adaptation (CA)  is an idea that is useful in the understanding of how the body reacts to inputs like dietary intake of macronu...

Labels: body fat, compensatory adaptation, gluconeogenesis, glucose, glycogen depletion, intermittent fasting, ketones, ketosis, muscle gain, muscle loss, research, resistance exercise, strength training

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Blood glucose levels in birds are often 2-4 times higher than those in mammals of comparable size. Yet birds often live 3 times longer than ...

Labels: birds, diabetes, glucose, HbA1c, vitamin C

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An adult human has about 5 l of blood in circulation. Considering a blood glucose concentration of 100 mg/dl, this translates into a total a...

Labels: evolution, glucose, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, insulin, research

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The notion that exercise reduces blood glucose levels is widespread. That notion is largely incorrect. Exercise appears to have a positive e...

Labels: endurance exercise, glucose, glycogen depletion, insulin, research, resistance exercise

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Excessive dietary fructose has been shown to cause an unhealthy elevation in serum triglycerides. This and other related factors are hypothe...

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Postprandial glucose levels are the levels of blood glucose after meals. In Western urban environments, the main contributors to elevated po...

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I love statistics. But statistics is the science that will tell you that each person in a group of 20 people ate half a chicken per week ove...

Labels: diabetes, glucose, glycation, HbA1c, metabolic syndrome, research

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I have recently read an interesting study by Yashin and colleagues (2009) at Duke University’s Center for Population Health and Aging. (The ...

Labels: diabetes, glucose, glycation, HbA1c, longevity, metabolic syndrome, research

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Insulin is often presented as a hormone that is at the core of the diseases of civilization, particularly because of the insulin response el...

Labels: glucose, insulin, protein, refined carbs, research, sugars