Chromium supplementation found to reduce hunger and food cravings
Overeating is something that many of us will have experienced at one time or another. This phenomenon can, of course, be down to plentiful supply of appetising food, but it can also have a physiological and/or biochemical root too. One cause of overeating is ‘hypoglycaemic’ or low blood sugar. When blood sugar levels drop to [...]
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Why the evidence on nuts and weight makes a mockery of the calorie principle
For a long time I’ve been an advocate of tree nuts (e.g. cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts, almonds) and peanuts in the diet. One reason for this is that they are a highly nutritious food, and their consumption has been consistently linked in the scientific literature with a reduced risk of heart disease and [...]
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The value of sunlight in the winter, even for those not suffering from SAD
I had a press release the other day from the PR people of a department store here in the UK telling me that sales of sunlight simulating lamps are up 80 per cent on last year. The proposed explanation but this surge in sales has been the dismal, largely sunless summer we’ve had in the [...]
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Animal study explores how high GI diets might cause fatty accumulation in the body
One basic nutritional tenet I subscribe to is the idea that the diet should be based on foods that give relatively slow sustained release of sugar into the blood stream. Some of the reason for this thinking comes from the fact that fast sugar-releasing (high glycaemic index) foods will tend to cause surges in the [...]
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