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Being Fat Shrinks Your Brain

28 August 2009

This video from Sky, starts with a short report on dementia research that has shown that those with a high BMI in their middle age, have physically smaller brains later in life! Ok, we all know that BMI is a very flawed system of measuring obesity for anyone who resembles an athletic type, but for [...]

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Low Carb Diets ‘Damage Arteries’

27 August 2009

So blares the headline at the BBC news article the other day. What really annoys me though, is that this is tabloid medicine at its worse. Actually the “science” isn’t a lot better to be honest. I decided to investigate further. This link gives more detail on the story (though not enough by far): http://www.bidmc.org/News/InResearch/2009/August/LowCarbDiets.aspx [...]

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The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet

20 July 2009

I forget why I’m reading this book now (someone must have recommended it to me) but the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet has an interesting twist on the usual “low carb is best” mantra of alternative diets. It boils down to this: 1) Eat 2 very low carb “Complementary meals” per day. E.g. 3-4oz of protein + [...]

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How to start the Zone Diet Eating Plan

22 September 2008

Someone has asked me to help them get started on the Zone diet eating plan, as they are finding it hard to get their head round the books. I originally sent them the example meal plans you can get off the main zonediet.com site, but the feedback was that they were too expensive for someone [...]

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Zone Diet Update

2 September 2008

I’ve not done a Zone Diet update post for a while, but that’s not because I’ve stopped following a Zone Diet plan. As I mentioned on my last zone diet post, I had sort of reached a plateaux and got “stuck” if you will around the 13st0 (182lb / 83kg) mark and about 17-18% body [...]

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