Dietetics

5-a-day, Fructose and the Department of Health

13.09.2012 ARTICLES
Fructose

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Fructose, commonly known as the ‘fruit sugar’, has been written about previously on this website. Fruit, fruit juice and therefore fructose was the topic of my first ever video blog for Mac-Nutrition (see below) and now I’m going to talk a little bit about the 5-a-day concept. However, in case [...]

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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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“Participants on the low-carb diet lost more weight and at a faster pace”

12.04.2012 ARTICLES
Weight Loss

A very quick blog as I know I haven't posted a whole lot recently. The title doesn't even do this justice… if you're reading this blog you're probably fairly happy with the fact that lowering your carbohydrates is a perfectly good way to lose weight. There is discussion, that is warranted, as to whether preferentially [...]

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