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Why carbs can turn your liver into foie gras

Friday, February 15th, 2008

It’s funny how things seem to come in threes, and this week was an example of this maxim in that I saw three patients all of whom had deranged liver function tests. All of them had raised levels of at least two liver ‘enzymes’. This, in medicine, is generally taken as a sign of damage [...]

More evidence (should you require it) that supports the notion that fat doesn’t induce diabetes, but carbs can

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Variously on the site in the past I have attempted to highlight the science (never mind the common sense) that if you have diabetes and want to control it (or don’t want to get this condition in the first place), the part of the diet that generally needs reigning in comes in the form of [...]