My lunch of chicken sandwich and fries is an example of what I have been trying to avoid lately because it has two servings of carbohydrates. My usual solution is to break that into two meals or eat a meal with fewer carbohydrates.
Monday, February 24, 2014
My lunch
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Health Matters: Your craving may be your addiction - Opinion - WKU Herald
When you first take a bite of sugary cereal, your taste receptors that respond to sweetness, found at the tip of your tongue, send a signal to the portion of your brain called the cerebral cortex.
This signal activates ‘the reward system’ and causes you to want to take another bite. Excessive activation of this reward system, Dr. Avena suggests, can cause ‘loss of control, craving and intolerance to sugar.’
Monday, February 17, 2014
Current Opinion in Lipidology
Even where fructose provides excess calories leading to weight gain
and adverse effects on cardiometabolic risk factors, the harm seen is
generally no greater than that seen with glucose (with the same few
exceptions), as long as the comparison remains matched for the excess
calories.
http://mobile.journals.lww.com/co-lipidology/_layouts/oaks.journals.mobile/articleviewer.aspx?year=2014&issue=02000&article=00003
and adverse effects on cardiometabolic risk factors, the harm seen is
generally no greater than that seen with glucose (with the same few
exceptions), as long as the comparison remains matched for the excess
calories.
http://mobile.journals.lww.com/co-lipidology/_layouts/oaks.journals.mobile/articleviewer.aspx?year=2014&issue=02000&article=00003
Friday, February 14, 2014
Insulin
http://www.askmen.com/sports/foodcourt_60/69_eating_well.html
The basic premise
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, as attacked by Guyenet, looks basically like this:
Excessive amounts of carbohydrates (especially refined carbs / sugar) increases insulin and results in fat gain.
Guyenets argues in his post that carbs are not necessarily the cause of increased insulin, and insulin certainly do not result in gaining weight (maybe the opposite!). Basically he says that while low carb works, the theory to explain it is wrong.
However, as every doctor who has ever treated diabetics with insulin (and their patients) probably knows, injecting insulin certainly does tends to increase fat gain. And in untreated type 1 diabetics, with no insulin, weight plummets. Guyenet does not mention that.
Thin people usually have low insulin levels, obese people usually have high levels of insulin. Guyenet does not believe that is significant.
http://www.dietdoctor.com/guyenet-taubes-and-why-low-carb-works
In short: Carbohydrates drives insulin, which drives fat.
http://gettingstronger.org/2011/02/does-insulin-make-you-fat/
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
Added sugars abundant In U.S. diets, linked to death
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/03/us-sugar-diet-idUSBREA121IK20140203
Autism
‘Social symptoms in autistic children may be caused by hyper-connected neurons
The brains of children with autism show more connections than the brains of typically developing children do. What's more, the brains of individuals with the most severe social symptoms are also the most hyper-connected. The findings reported in two independent studies are challenge the prevailing notion in the field that autistic brains are lacking in neural connections.’
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131107123039.htm
‘Autistic brains create more information at rest, study show
New research finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest -- a 42 percent increase on average. The study offers a scientific explanation for the most typical characteristic of autism -- withdrawal into one's own inner world. The excess production of information may explain a child's detachment from their environment.’
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140131130630.htm
Sunday, February 2, 2014
A lozenge
Candies to soothe the throat date back to 1000 BC in Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, when they were made from honey flavored with citrus, herbs, and spices. In the 19th century, physicians discovered morphine and heroin, which suppress coughing at its source—the brain. Popular formulations of that era included Smith Brothers Cough Drops, first advertised in 1852, and Luden's, created in 1879. Concern over the risk of opioid dependence led to the development of alternative medications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_lozenge
A lozenge (◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from the French losange) for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with acute angles of 45°.[1] The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry and as decoration on ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards.
The lozenge motif dates as far back as the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in Eastern Europe and represents a sown field and female fertility.[2] The ancient lozenge pattern often shows up in Diamond vault architecture, in traditional dress patterns of Slavic peoples, and in traditional Ukrainian embroidery. The lozenge pattern also appears extensively in Celtic art, art from the Ottoman Empire, and ancient Phrygian art.[3]
The lozenge symbolism is one of the main female symbols in Berber carpets.[4] Common Berber jewelry from the Aurès Mountains or Kabylie in Algeria also uses this pattern as a female fertility sign.
In 1658, the English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published The Garden of Cyrus subtitled The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients where he outlined the mystical interconnection of art, nature and the Universe. He suggested that ancient plantations used the quincunx pattern that revealed the "mystical mathematics of the city of Heaven"[5] and proof of the wisdom of God.
Lozenges appear as symbols in ancient classic element systems, in amulets, and in religious symbolism. In a suit of playing cards, diamonds is in the shape of a lozenge.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Antioxidants including vitamin E can promote lung cancer: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/us-antioxidants-idUSBREA0S1QV20140129
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Chocolate, Tea, Berries May Cut Diabetes Risk. Substances found in some people's favorite foods appear to benefit blood sugar, inflammation levels.
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20140121/chocolate-tea-berries-may-cut-diabetes-risk-study
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
People Who Enjoy Life Will Live Longer?
http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/people-who-enjoy-life-will-live-longer/
… there is not a clear causality here.
Health Headlines (Nuts. Sugar. Healthy living.)
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/eating-nuts-reduces-risk-of-death/
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/814767
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1307352
http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/five-healthiest-nuts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/29/best-worst-nuts-health_n_1455755.html
http://voices.yahoo.com/6-best-healthiest-most-nutritious-nuts-chosen-usda-7227788.html
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/in-depth/nuts/art-20046635
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/daytime-sleeping-could-throw-genes-out-whack/ncwpy/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12088740
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/12/23/anti-aging-anti-depressants/
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-233992.aspx
Monday, January 20, 2014
Peanuts
'The path of the peanut from a snack staple to the object of bans at schools, day care centers and beyond offers important insights into how and why a rare, life-threatening food allergy can prompt far-reaching societal change, according to a Princeton University researcher.
Before 1980, peanut allergies were rarely mentioned in medical literature or the media, said Miranda Waggoner, a postdoctoral researcher at the Office of Population Research in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her article on the subject, "Parsing the peanut panic: The social life of a contested food allergy epidemic," was published recently in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Starting around 1990, articles in medical journals began discussing the seriousness of peanut allergies, Waggoner said. At the same time, advocacy groups were emerging to raise awareness of the issue. By the mid-1990s, newspapers were printing articles with headlines such as "Nut Allergy Girl's Terror; Girl Almost Dies from Peanut Allergy."
And the 21st century brought descriptions of peanut allergies — in medical journals and the media — as an epidemic.
For those with a peanut allergy, ingesting the legume can lead to anaphylactic shock and, if untreated, death. But the allergy is quite rare and it isn't clear whether it is becoming more common, Waggoner said.'
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S37/46/79G28/index.xml?section=topstories
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Fwd: Google contacts
'Google's smart contact lens: what it does and how it works
Wearables may be on everyone's list as the major tech trend of the year, but Google just kicked it up to a whole new level. The company announced a project to make a smart contact lens on its official blog Thursday.
But the lens isn't going to be used to deliver your e-mail straight into your skull — at least not yet. This project is working to tackle one of the biggest health problems facing the country today: diabetes.
The soft contact lens that Google's is introducing — it's still just a prototype — houses a sensor between two layers of lenses that measures the glucose levels in tears. The lens also features a small — really small — antenna, capacitor and controller, so that the information gathered from the lens can move from your eye to a device where that data can be read and analyzed.
According to a short explanation of the technology provided by Google, the chip and sensors are mounted on a small plastic-like film. A tiny pinhole in the lens lets tear fluid seep over the glucose monitor to get regular readings. Right now, the company said, it can get a level reading once every second.'
Since when did Google get into the medical devices business?
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