How To Avoid Autoimmune Disease – Part 1

How To Avoid Autoimmune Disease

How To Avoid Autoimmune Disease – Part 1 It seems that these days there is a real epidemic of immunity problems, so knowing how to avoid autoimmune disease, and the things that are most likely to cause it, is becoming more and more important. We remember when growing up several decades ago that you hardly ever heard of older relatives or family friends having health issues that were autoimmune diseases. In fact, one hardly heard of cancers (except lung cancer from smoking), diabetes, irritable bowel disease and other diseases that are so prevalent today. Back then it was extremely rare Continue Reading →

Dietary Fat Is Associated With Lower Death Risk

dietart fat is associated with lower death risk

Avoid one of these and eat the other to lower risk of dying Dietary Fat Is Associated With Lower Death Risk No, that is not a misprint. Despite dietary fat having been demonised for over 40 years and the consumption of whole grains (aka carbohydrates) having been praised and touted as our health saviour, it is really gratifying to see that science is now saying that dietary fat is associated with lower death risk and that high carbohydrate intake is associated with higher total mortality risk. Isn’t it great when the contrary position you have held for many years is Continue Reading →

Dietary Fat Is Not The Villain

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Dietary Fat Is Not The Villain In recent posts, we have tried to demonstrate to you that sugar is the enemy of health, causing inflammation and potentially leading to type 3 diabetes (cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease). Despite many medical practitioners and scientists publishing studies for several decades and saying that dietary fat is not the villain previously thought, there is still a widely held belief that we should aim for a low fat, high carbohydrate diet. The Problem was the Food Pyramid This emerged in the US in 1977 and around the same time in the UK and Continue Reading →

How Much Sugar Do You Consume A Day?

How Much Sugar Do You Consume

 How Much Sugar Do You Eat or Drink Daily? Let’s start with soda. One hundred calories isn’t much. Just one 12-ounce (350ml) regular soda contains about 140 calories, the staggering equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar. Similarly, one eight-ounce glass (235ml) of orange juice contains a whopping eight full teaspoons of sugar, and at least 50 percent of that sugar is fructose. Drinking just one eight-ounce glass (235ml) of orange juice will wallop your system with about 25 grams of fructose, exceeding the recommended daily amount in one fell swoop. How much sugar do you consume a day? Fructose has Continue Reading →