Paleo Diet: What If Sugar Doesn’t Cause Diabetes?
It’s a serious question. What IF sugar doesn’t cause diabetes? I know, everyone in the world “knows” that diabetes is a functional breakdown of the body’s ability to effectively utilize and remove excess sugar (Glucose) from the blood stream, but does that mean that sugar is at the very root cause of the disease? Isn’t [...]
A New Culprit In Atherosclerosis?
An article entitled “A New Culprit in Atherosclerosis”, published on ScienceDaily.com on January 9th 2012, speaks about a new discovery in the search for a “cure” for Heart Disease. “We have discovered that macrophages that accumulate in plaques secrete a molecule called netrin-1,” said Kathryn J. Moore, PhD, senior author of the study and associate [...]
Is Your Diet Negatively Affecting Your Thyroid?
When I addressed the issue of the theory of “Safe Starches” as outlined in the “Perfect Health Diet” book, a couple of months ago, one of the reasons given by Paul Jaminet for eating a certain amount of starches, was that being low-carb for too long can negatively affect thyroid function. I didn’t really think [...]
