Again, It Depends on Who It Hangs Out With In a previous blog I had discussed some of the research of coffee consumption and a reduced risk of diabetes.  It seems there are several phenols or phytonutrients in brewed coffee that offer diabetes preventative benefit.  I also made the point that this might be negated […]

Food provides us with energy to run and materials needed to maintain the ongoing process of repair and regeneration.  How well those processes occur is highly related to food quality.  Quite simply, we have undergone a dramatic change in our food quality over the past 100 years and that change is a major factor in […]

Sugar has been increasingly associated with significant health problems.  This is of great concern as the sugar in the diet  currently is approximately 8 times higher than that consumed throughout human history.  This discussion has centered around it being a major cause of obesity and diabetes, which it is.  When sugar consumption exceeds immediate needs, […]

A parallel observation occurring as humans age and develop the common age related diseases is that the intestinal microbiome shifts to a different population.  That begs the question whether these are simply unrelated changes or does one contribute to the other.  In the previous blog I discussed the interesting study which found that fecal medical […]

As sugar consumption was found to be strongly associated with health risks such as obesity and diabetes, a simplistic solution seemed to be the use of non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NCAS) – we could have most things taste sweet with no harm.  The problem has been that after 3-4 decades of consumption of NCAS, both diabetes […]