Alternate day fasting(ADF) is a form of intermittent fasting where you alternate feast and fast days. Normally, you eat 25% of your daily calorie needs on fast days and 125% of your calories on feast days. This equates to eating at an average of 75% of your daily calorie needs over the long term. Suffice … Continue reading Alternate day fasting for Type 2 diabetes: What you need to know
Month: March 2021
The shocking cause of Type 2 diabetes
What is the cause of Type 2 diabetes? Many people associate Type 2 diabetes with blood sugar problems. This is largely due to something most people would be happy to never hear. Essentially, physicians back in the day observed that the urine of people with diabetes mellitus tasted sweet. Patients dumped glucose into their urine … Continue reading The shocking cause of Type 2 diabetes
Nutrition for hire: How dubious health claims go viral
Nutrition for hire-Manipulating science to create the illusion that a biased nutritional claim is fact by presenting an unbalanced argument. Science for hire is a relatively well-known concept and the topic of many articles and documentaries. Essentially, science for hire is the use of scientific principles to manipulate an audience's opinion, often towards an erroneous … Continue reading Nutrition for hire: How dubious health claims go viral
Benefits of exercise: Health, happiness, but not weight loss
The benefits of exercise are numerous. Unfortunately, the thing that most people use exercise for is not one of them. we're talking about weight loss. The funny thing about exercise is that if it were a drug, we'd all be taking it. There is no better intervention for improving overall health than exercise. Although, weight … Continue reading Benefits of exercise: Health, happiness, but not weight loss
Finding the healthiest foods for you
Finding the healthiest foods for you as an individual is an important component of building long-lasting, longevity-inducing health. We are all different, from our genes to our microbiome to our daily lifestyle patterns. As a result, we all thrive on different diets. For example, some people have genetic polymorphisms in fat metabolism pathways that make … Continue reading Finding the healthiest foods for you