Low-Carb for You

Foie gras , French for "fat liver," is a delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks or geese with corn meal. However, ducks and gee...

Just the taste of a sweet beverage can result in liking, wanting and sipping of more of the sweet beverage. (Please see the previous blogpos...

Those who read food labels realize that high fructose corn syrup is added to all sorts of products, from pickles to yogurt to spaghetti sau...

Perhaps you overdid it a bit at Christmas and are looking for a weight-loss plan. Although low-carb diets are currently out of fashion, they...

Type 1.5 diabetes , as the name implies, falls between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It manifests some of the symptoms of both types, and it i...

Type 2 diabetes is a condition affecting slightly more than 7% of Americans. It used to be called adult-onset diabetes, but we now know it ...

The pancreas is a multifunctional organ that sits below and behind the stomach. As an exocrine organ, it empties digestive enzymes into the ...

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...