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Coffee drinking has biochemical benefits for the body

By on 22 March 2010 in Healthy Eating

Coffee, despite its not-so-healthy reputation, has been quite consistently linked in the scientific literature with benefits for health including a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia. See here, here, here, and here. While the research regarding the effects of coffee on health is voluminous, the great majority of it comes in the form […]

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Higher protein diet plus resistance exercise aids weight and fat loss in type 2 diabetics

By on 16 February 2010 in Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome, Exercise and Activity, Food and Medical Politics, Healthy Eating, Low-Carbohydrate, Unhealthy Eating!, Weight Loss

Where weight and fat loss is concerned, I favour a relatively low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet on the basis that such diets generally outperform low-fat, carb-rich diets traditionally advocated for weight loss. A lower-carb diet I think may have particular advantages for diabetics because, well, they have difficulty handling carbohydrate as a result of impaired insulin function […]

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