Low-Carb for You

Metformin (brand name Glucophage) is a member of the class of antidiabetic drugs called biguanides . Unlike the sulfonylureas such as glipiz...

About six weeks ago, Woodswalker asked me to write a post addressing the role of alcohol in a low-carb diet. This is a huge topic, but I wil...

The previous post discussed a three-legged stool approach to dealing with reactive hypoglycemia. The three legs of the stool are critical f...

Reactive hypoglycemia is a condition which is characterized by unusually low blood sugar that occurs one to four hours following a meal. The...

Common wisdom suggests that exercising will cause a person to lose weight. Superficially this makes sense. A 150 pound person at rest will u...

Americans are getting fatter. According to a recent article in Obesity , by 2030, 86.3% of American adults will be overweight. The average ...

Thanks to all the people who left excellent comments on my archived posts. Each one of your observations has been very much appreciated. As ...

Many aspects of the low-carb lifestyle are surprising. For example, the successful low-carber soon learns that he or she must eat fat to los...

One of the great things about low-carbing is that (at the beginning anyway) low-carbers don't need to count calories. Low-carbers do hav...

As described in the previous post, leptin is a hormone released by white adipose cells in the body. Leptin allows the brain to keep track of...

Leptin, pictured above, is a hormone produced by fat cells. When we eat a meal containing carbohydrate and/or protein, our pancreas releases...

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...