Nutrition News
THE ATKINS ADVANTAGE: "Back On Top"
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Menu Mastery: A Guide to Healthy Options at Restaurants
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Quick, Simple Kitchen Tips for High-Energy Nutrition
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Supporting Your Gallbladder with Supplements
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Food Pyramid
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Athletes benefit from Low-glycemic meals
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Could coffee actually be good for you?
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Fountain of youth found in red wine and grapes
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Is Your Nutrition Bar Right For You?
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Consumers Demand Snack Foods with Health Benefits
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Conventional Food Companies Facing A Big Dilemma
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Discovering Soy Foods
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Eating for Energy
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Keep on Track with Healthy Snacks
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Food Cravings and Eating Out
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Functional Food Benefits: Deciphering Food Labels
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American Diabetes Association Reverses Itself on Low-Carb Diets
The American Diabetes Association, an organization whose mission statement is "to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by (it)", clearly has it's heart in the right place. Trouble is, in our opinion, they've traditionally been behind the curve of cutting edge science and research when it comes to dietary recommendations.
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High Glycemic Diets Increase the Risk of Type II Diabetes
We’ve long advocated a healthy controlled carbohydrate diet as a way of preventing or treating diabetes, but the medical establishment has been slow to catch on. And while much research has been done on low-carbohydrate diets and weight loss, until now the long-term outcomes have not been determined, although this is also true of low-fat diets as well.
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High Glycemic Diets Increase the Risk of Type II Diabetes
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Epilepsy: A low-carbohydrate diet may be just what the doctor ordered
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Inflammation, Eggs and a Lower Carb Eating Program
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New Study on Low Carb Diet and Mood
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Atkins Reviews: "Good Calories Bad Calories"
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THE ROLE OF THE ATKINS DIET IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
This October, an article published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration attracted headlines in several major newspapers. The authors of the study had found that mice fed a high-fat diet exhibited a 5-percent decrease brain weight and an increase in amyloid beta. People with Alzheimer’s disease have high levels of amyloid beta deposits in their brains. The authors didn’t say that a high-fat diet is associated with similar effects in humans, but obviously the results in mice raise some concern. Does ketosis (the liver’s production of byproducts in the blood when consuming a high-fat diet), which occurs on the Atkins Diet, impact thinking and learning?
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Another Reason to Eat Antioxidants at Every Meal
A healthy intake of antioxidants is one of the guiding principles of
the Atkins program for robust good health. Antioxidants help protect
cells and DNA from damage which not only ages us but also makes us more
susceptible to disease. For that reason, maintaining high levels of
protective antioxidants in your blood is an important goal of the
program.
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Diets High in Fructose Inhibits the Appetite Hormone
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Low carbs cause memory loss? Not so fast!
Low-carb memory-loss study: media forgets to report the facts.
You’ve likely seen recent headlines that tease a new Tufts University study involving low-carb diets and alleged memory loss. Well, this response from VP of Education and Communication, Collette Heimowitz points out one important thing to remember – the media loves to cherry pick the facts.
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Worst Idea of the week: “Fat-Free Living” Month.
Is the term, “fat-free living” that an oxymoron?
According to our VP of Education and Nutrition Communication, Colette Heimowitz, dietary fat isn’t bad, it’s essential to life. Naturally, she has a beef with the USDA for declaring January, “Fat-Free Living Month.” Read the whole article here.
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Low carb diet study in NEJM
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The “Eco-Atkins” Diet
Recently, a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine received a flurry of media attention.
The study authors started by admitting that low-carbohydrate dieting
was indeed effective, not only for weight loss, but for reducing
insulin resistance, lowering triglyceride concentrations and for
raising HDL (so-called “good” cholesterol). The researchers wanted to
see if they could design a low-carbohydrate diet that retained the
proven weight-loss benefits of low-carb plans like Atkins and also help
people improve their cholesterol while following a vegetarian, vegan
approach.
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More Reasons to Go Low Carb
Two new studies presented at the Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual
Meeting in Washington DC offer additional evidence for the value of a
low-carb diet, not just for weight loss, but for overall health.
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Inflammation, Eggs and a Lower Carb Eating Program
Inflammation is a silent killer. While inflammation has flown under the radar as a risk factor for disease, it’s beginning to get a huge amount of attention. It started in 2002, when the American Heart Association journal “Circulation” published an article called “inflammation and atherosclerosis” (1) which detailed important links between the biology of inflammation and the mechanisms of heart disease. We now know that the inflammatory response – which often goes undetected in our bodies – is a contributing factor in a host of diseases including Alzheimer’s, cancer, strokes, diabetes and obesity.
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The Latest From NEJM
A recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study titled
“Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat,
Protein, and Carbohydrates” (Feb. 26, 2009), concluded that
reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss
regardless of which macronutrients they emphasized.
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High -Fructose Corn Syrup Has a Press Agent!
After years of media reports linking the increasing consumption of high-fructose corn syrup with the growing obesity and diabetes epidemics, the Corn Refiners of America have decided to fight back with a series of misleading commercials designed to persuade you that this stuff’s not so bad after all.
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