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.
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