Living The Low Carb Lifestyle
With low carb recipes appearing almost daily online it seems that the majority are focused on desserts and treats. Many of these call for the use of sugar replacements such as Stevia, Monk Fruit, Erythritol or Xylitol, sometimes in huge amounts. After retraining our bodies to burn fat instead of glucose, is it wise, or …
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Finally mainstream media is discussing the low carb diet in a positive way. TV's Dr Zoe Williams from BBC's Trust Me I'm A Doctor describes this 'recent revelation' as "brilliant news" in today's (4th September 2019) This Morning. Phillip Schofield asks some pertinent questions of the doc who explains that diabetes is linked to lifestyle …
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Frédéric Leroy, Professor of Food Science and biotechnology at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, presents a very informative lecture concluding that meat has effectively become a scapegoat for commercial and environmental advocates, much of which was based on bad science. Speaking at a lecture at the University of Auckland, Professor Leroy discusses how this scapegoating came about …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsxG11p3XWw https://www.dietdoctor.com Published on 24 Aug 2019 Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt is a Swedish medical doctor based in Karlstad who specialises in family medicine. He is primarily interested in how food and lifestyle can improve a patient's health and reduce their medication needs. In 2007, Dr. Eenfeldt started the blog “Kostdoktorn” – a Swedish word …
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Veganism and to a lesser extent, vegetarianism, collectively rebranded as “plant based” eating is growing at an exponential rate, especially among millennials. This unprecedented growth has attracted the attention of high profile celebs such as Bill Gates who has invested in one of the many plant based or “fake meat” successes, the Impossible Burger. The …
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Occasionally it’s nice to create a takeaway-style treat, and if this can be accomplished without the metabolic repercussions...and guilt, the enjoyment is even more special. The following recipe is the culmination of several attempts to achieve a deep pan style pizza similar to my Pizza Hut favourite which has become a distant memory. I had …
Cauliflower is probably the most versatile vegetable in the low carb "toolbox" but many of the recipes using the humble cauliflower tend to use it to emulate such things as pizza bases or wraps. Stuck for a new approach I decided to give it a spicy twist as a side dish to a chicken madras …
A missing ingredient that research is finally exposing as deficient in the Western diet due to the vilification of such foods as eggs, cheese and liver as part of the unproven saturated fat hypothesis is Vitamin K2 which is found in abundance in such foods and also fermented foods which have declined since the introduction …
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Following on from my previous post, this presentation delves even deeper into a world that is constantly revealing new evidence that what we eat is not just food for us but also millions of microbes that, if ignored, can affect our health in ways we never imagined. We meet scientists who are applying what they’ve …
Those who are already living a low carb lifestyle already know the answer to this but in this two-part ABC Catalyst Documentary, Dr Graham Phillips reveals new research about the interplay between food and the bacteria deep within our gut. Remarkable new discoveries are telling us that our current eating habits could be making us …
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