Low-Carb for You

Jimmy Moore is one of the "stars" of the low-carb movement. In 2004 he followed Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution and took his w...

When we think about blood glucose, we usually think about hyperglycemia, or excess blood glucose. But sometimes we can have too little gluc...

We have glucose in our blood at all times. Where does it come from? The first and most obvious source is from the carbohydrates in our food...

Even though the media and the medical commmunity have generally been skeptical of the low-carb lifestyle, many people now know that low-carb...

See that logo? The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the premier scientific journals in the world. It is in the top tier of the top ...

Sucrose, also known as table sugar, is a disaccharide. In the gut, it is split into its constituent monosaccharides--glucose and fructose. ...

What if there was a food that could easily be converted to fat in your body? You would think that that food would be on the list of substanc...

It is commonly thought that weight loss is required to reverse insulin resistance. A small study of obese type 2 diabetics indicates that t...

Analyst Maxwell Smart is briefing agents at the secret U.S. government spy agency CONTROL. What does it mean, he asks rhetorically, that age...

In several recent posts we've mentioned something called "metabolic syndrome." What is metabolic syndrome? Metabolic syndrome ...

What are the diseases of civilization? Measles? Whooping cough? AIDS? No--you can get all of those diseases without being civilized! The dis...

You've worked hard. You've lost all that weight on a low-carb lifestyle, and now you're going to gain it all back, right? Not ne...

People who follow the low-carb lifestyle report that they feel better when they are doing low-carb. But do they also lose weight? A study pu...

This post is not about science. It's about anecdotes. But occasionally anecdotes can give us valuable insights. Many of us think that lo...

Since Tim Russert's untimely death on June 13, 2008, more information about his medical history has come to light. According to Tim'...

In January 1961 a physiologist named Ancel Keys was featured on the cover of Time magazine. His appearance marked the victory of the idea t...

Tim Russert, for many years the host of NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning show, died suddenly on June 13, 2008. Michael Newman, Tim R...

Two more big words. When proteins are assembled in our cells, sometimes specific sugar molecules are attached to them in carefully-defined w...

What happens if a large percentage of your diet consists of bread, potatoes, gravy, corn, sugary soft drinks and desserts? How could that co...

When you look at a fat person, what do you see? Somebody who eats too much? Somebody who exercises too little? Do you ever think that you mi...