low carb diet (20)

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Dosing insulin for protein

A note of caution: Always talk to your doctor before making changes to your insulin regiment. In the absence of carbohydrates in the meal, the liver turns to gluconeogenesis - the process of converting protein to glucose. I eat up to 30g of carbohydrates with…

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Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution

You change your life, which is more important than looking good on the beach this summer. This is a great diet book. It was released in 1992, as an updated version to the 1972 original, and can easily be read today. The body hasn't changed…

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The last avocado

Like many of us, I lost my job in the pandemic. My unemployment payments, which consist of 40 percent of my income, have made it hard to keep myself in blueberries. The sudden tightening of funds led to some radical substitutions in my daily eating…

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Book Review: The Diet Delusion

I'll miss you pasta, but I think it's for the best. Science journalist Gary Taubes makes a convincing case for why you should eat fewer carbs and more fat in this brick-sized book on 20th-century nutrition. Whereas I can't verify his 70 pages of sources…

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Most Googled Diets

Every year Google releases statistics of what people have searched the most for. As I looked through the lists I realized that I had no idea who most of the people on there were, but on the diet front I was up to date. A…

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