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Of mice and strawberries

By Jim September 20, 2011 2 Comments

This year, after adopting a low-carb way of eating, I've eaten more strawberries than ever before. That's ironic since strawberries are sweet and sweet things are generally unwelcome when eating low-carb. But a half-dozen large strawberries have only about 35 calories and 6g net carbs (8 total carbs - 2 grams of fiber). Add some heavy cream, and you have a tasty, nutritious, low-carb dessert. Now comes news that eating 37 strawberries a day could lessen the risk of complications from diabetes. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, News & Commentary Tagged With: AGEs, diabetes, fisetin, mouse study, strawberries

Two upward trends: drinking calories and getting diabetes

By Jim July 24, 2011 2 Comments

U.S. soft drink swilling triples in my lifetime

I was born in a simpler time.  Back then, soda pop was an occasional treat, not an everyday (or twice a day) habit. In 1952, Americans on average drank 11.5 gallons of carbonated, caloric soft drinks per year.  I doubt that I personally accounted for any of 1,786,100,000 gallons of cola, root beer, red pop, etc., produced and consumed in the U.S. that year,  but a decade later, when per capita availability had increased to 14.5 gallons  per year, I was doing my part. I continued drinking my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: CDC, diabetes, diet soda, soda pop, type-2 diabetes, USDA

Can watching TV kill you? What if you just listen?

By Jim June 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

The web is vibrating today with the news (loosely speaking) that TV viewing can kill you.  This is not a metaphoric brain-death that we are talking about here, folks; it is actual, stone-cold, stick-you-in-the-ground death.  Consider the following headlines gleaned this morning from a variety of online media sources via Google News: Too Much TV Linked With Disease and Early Death Alice Park, Time Healthland. TV Time Linked to Diabetes, Death, Crystal Phend, ABC News. TV gives you diabetes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Media Watch Tagged With: death, diabetes, exercise, health, heart disease, JAMA, TV viewing

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