Carbohydrate

Research Update: Low carbohydrate diet in type 1 diabetes

11.06.2012 ARTICLES
Diabetes 2

Guest article by Martin MacDonald Just a very short post (and some extra thoughts) that tie in well with this article about Treating Type 1 Diabetes and Epilepsy through lowering carbohydrates which got a couple of quite strong responses! To follow on from that study here is a very recent paper on the improvements and [...]

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Research Update: Low carb diet improves glycemic control compared with advice to follow a low-fat diet

09.06.2012 ARTICLES
Low Fat

So, after my most recent post on Facebook that almost got the desired 70 likes over the long weekend, here is the study I mentioned. This is an interesting study as it looks at real world situations with "few resources allocated for achieving compliance, so that clinical use of the protocol would be realistic for [...]

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Train Low, Compete High

25.03.2012 Sports Performance
girl weights

by Mike Macfarlane, BSc MSc I have tried many different nutrition strategies, some prescribed previously by sports nutritionists and others I had researched and chose to implement on a trial and error basis. Like many other athletes and determined trainers, I wanted a diet that did the following for me: Gave me the energy to [...]

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Research Update: Following the UK dietary guidelines increases risk factors for heart disease

04.03.2012 ARTICLES
Mac Plate

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald I’ve had this article written for a while and it originally started with this: “Well… wow. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this study! I’m gutted I can’t get the full text… if you can, please would you send it to me! Here is a link to the full text website: [...]

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Research Update: A low fat diet worsens cardiovascular risk factors in male and female runners

03.03.2012 ARTICLES
Heart health cardiovascular disease

Just a couple of interesting studies basically showing that eating a low fat diet (15-16%) worsens markers of cardiovascular disease risk. We hopefully all know that eating less than 15% fat is a bad idea, even the government doesn't recommend less than 15% but here is some evidence that perhaps even a 'health low fat [...]

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Research Update: Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes and Epilepsy through lowering carbohydrates

14.02.2012 ARTICLES
Low CHO Pyramid

This is a very quick topical research update as in the last last few weeks a large number of people have asked about the best way to eat for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). So when we saw this research published just a few days ago we had to stop what we were doing and write [...]

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Research Update: How to make fat look bad

29.01.2012 ARTICLES
Bat fat

This is a topic that was covered at the Mac-Nutrition Conference 2011 and we’re wondering whether we might write an entire article series on this because quite frankly we’re not sure whether researchers are doing it on purpose or whether studies like this are actually written by PhD students with a lack of common sense [...]

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Research Update: An amazing study on intakes of carbohydrate, protein and fat

26.01.2012 ARTICLES
Eat Well Plate STOP

A study on intakes of carbohydrate, protein and fat, published just 4 days ago has come out and has shown some interesting results… perhaps ground breaking if you still believe the food pyramid/eat well plate is anything to go by, but interesting to the rest of us none the less. I have been fortunate enough [...]

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