Low-Carb Articles

Identifying the links between diet and cancer has been one of the most difficult tasks of modern science.  

Another recent analysis from MESA showed that the addition of CAC score to global risk assessment was associated with significantly improved risk classification in those with MetS and diabetes

Many with Diabetes are confused by the conflicting dietary advice they receive. And no wonder. The dietary advice given to those with diabetes has been extremely poor. For decades, people with diabetes have been told center their diet around carbohydrates ...

Should every day be Meatless Monday? Prescribing plant-based diets to the planet without including straightforward warnings of these risks and offering clear guidance as to how to minimize them is scientifically irresponsible and medically unethical, and therefore should not form the basis of public health recommendations.

There are numerous issues with this plant-biased advice. Not least – what will all these plants be grown in when there is no top soil left because we have replaced soil-rejuvenating ruminants with soil-raping plants?  The focus of this post was to highlight that the EAT diet is nutritionally deficient.

The authors critically review the lack of evidence saturated fat having any useful target in public health nutrition. This is an important debate because you will likely eat more saturated fat on a LCHF diet, but is that justified?

In the peer-reviewed medical literature over the last 5 decades, the arguments against the safety and sustainability of nutritional ketosis have been proven false over and over again, most recently with the 2-year results of our Indiana University Health study ...

One of the biggest challenges we encounter in managing people following a ketogenic diet is to get them to pay adequate attention to their sodium and potassium intakes...

"We think of all these responses, obesity, insulin resistance, and the beta cell failure, as pathologic. They're actually protective.  . .Your body is actually trying to protect itself against the root cause of the problem which is too much insulin, too much glucose." — Jason Fung

One combinatorial approach that has garnered much attention in recent years is the use of glucose-limiting lifestyle changes or anti-diabetic drugs that can be co-administered with immunotherapy.

Listen to Libby Jenkinson interview Dr Catherine Crofts to explain these terms and why they are so important to understand to avoid future metabolic diseases.

Why are the guidelines still recommending for diabetics to consumes carbohydrates when they are intolerant to them? The message for so long has been “eat whatever you want, then medicate for it”.  

A very broad overview of LDL particles and their important cargo along with common misconceptions about this subject within a low carb, high fat diet.

Should testing be done fasted? What is the importance of ratios? TG in the fasted state indicate insulin resistance, which also affects the HDL count. The natural range of TG is context dependent and the value of a single result is disputed..

What should you eat to have the greatest chance of delaying the arrival of cardiovascular disease?

Previously, across 8 parts of this series we’ve laid the groundwork to ask perhaps the most important question of all.

For your patients to ditch the carbs for good, they need to understand the advantages of a low-carb diet, how to start, what to eat and how to avoid the common mistakes.

The drugs currently available to treat Parkinson’s disease lose their effectiveness over time and can cause undesirable side effects. Ketone bodies may bypass the pathway in the brain that is disrupted and support other vital energy pathways.

The food insulin index ranges from 0 – 100 representing how much insulin your body releases after 2 hours of having eaten a particular food, obtained against a standard reference ‘food’ (glucose) with a score of 100.

The acronym TOFI is also used, although less commonly, and it stands for Thin-Outside Fat-Inside. Because of their poor body composition they will encounter many of the same health problems as an obese person may.

The goal of eating a healthy ketogenic diet during pregnancy is not — and should not be — to lose weight.  So eat a variety of foods to supply adequate nutrients for both you and your child for each trimester during pregnancy.