Category Archives: Insulin resistance

Water is wet, & insulin is anabolic

So who cares? Apparently at least one person, who continues to find what I’ve learned about the anabolic role of insulin with respect to muscle to be downright objectionable. And thus I came back to my computer after the weekend … Continue reading

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Insulin index

One problem with David Mendosa’s article about the insulin index, which I referenced yesterday, is that the insulin index table he gives doesn’t tell you very much about the foods contained in it. For example, as a correspondent pointed out … Continue reading

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Insulin: An anabolic hormone

Someone on my insulin resistance list took extreme exception to my post there yesterday on insulin response (upon which my blog post yesterday, “Insulin response: It ain’t just the carbs” is based). I’d quoted from “The Anabolic Power of Insulin: … Continue reading

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Insulin response: It ain't just the carbs

Someone on my insulin resistance forum asked about insulin response to saturated fats. But it ain’t just the carbs, ain’t just the saturated fat which elicit the secretion of insulin in our bodies. A study on the insulin demand of … Continue reading

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The state of my art 3

I wrote a couple of prior “The state of my art” posts about how I eat, but none of them to the intranet blog that I write to coworkers for the Start Walking program. So today I wrote one. While … Continue reading

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High carb, low carb, or moderate carb?

The good folks at the Glycemic Index Newsletter have been engaged in some argument with low-carb proponents about whether low-carb diets are good for you. The GI people say “Slow carb not low carb”, but a fellow named James Krieger, … Continue reading

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Coffee & diabetes prevention

Coffee Could Help Keep Diabetes Away 06.26.06, 12:00 AM ET MONDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — Drinking lots of coffee cut women’s risk of developing diabetes in an 11-year study, researchers report. But it was the antioxidants, not caffeine, in … Continue reading

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Starting to fine-tune

Today’s Start Walking blog: Sunday, 25 June 2006: Starting to fine-tune A fairly routine day as walking & other exercise goes: direct route to/from Kaladi Brothers at Title Wave, & 33 minutes dancing at home. I did add one thing … Continue reading

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Eat your veggies

Vegetables may help arteries stay clear Reuters UK (Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:26 PM BST)By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A healthy dose of vegetables every day may help keep the heart arteries clear, a study in mice … Continue reading

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The glycemic yo-yo

If I needed any reminding about the evils of too many carbs, especially refined carbs, at any one meal, I got a reminder today. A going-away gig for one of my coworkers, celebrated with lunch which was in part potluck, … Continue reading

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