Tag: sugar

Sugar is the alcohol of the child!

On: By: Philip Wake
"In the past, one of the biggest drivers of type 2 diabetes was in fact alcohol. Sugar has a very similar impact on the liver as does alcohol. In fact, that’s why we now call this disease non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Look below at these two sets of liver cells under the microscope. On the left is the normal liver, nice and pink, and you can see the blood vessels nicely formed and flowing throughout. On the right is a patient with fatty liver disease, and you can see the white spaces (that’s Read more [...]

The truth about fat in your diet!

On: By: Philip Wake

"Current UK government guidelines advise cutting down on all fats and replacing saturated fat with some unsaturated fat. In recent years, the popular media has turned the debate about the causes of major public health issues such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity into something of a "fat versus sugar" dogfight. But the question should not be about choosing between fat or sugar: there are good reasons for cutting down on both."
See the full article on the NHS website here.

 

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“Eat fat to get thin!” is the daftest headline I’ve seen this year!

On: By: Philip Wake

‘Eat fat to get thin’: Official diet advice is ‘disastrous’ for obesity fight, new report warns

You can read the article in the Telegraph for yourself as I’m not going to pass on the daftest advice a so called group of experts have given this century!

What really happened is that people were told to avoid fat for silly reasons – like lowering cholesterol and losing weight when the real reason to avoid fat AND sugar is to keep the calories in your food each day down to a reasonable Read more [...]