by Michael O'Neill | Oct 21, 2012 | research
Ok, another article that’s behind a paywall, and it’s just a meta analysis, but still, it’s more evidence that the tide is turning in the medical, health and nutrition community. According to the abstract of a meta-analysis just published in the...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 20, 2012 | exercise
Seems like our presumption that a calorie-reduction diet and an exercise regimen is the cure for all that ails us hit another snag recently. From the New York Times: A large federal study of whether diet and weight loss can prevent heart attacks and strokes in...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 5, 2012 | research
In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, researchers updated us on the results of the famed Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) study (link in references below). If you don’t remember, the DIRECT study tested a...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 3, 2012 | research
I’ve seen a few mentions of some new research coming out in the October issue of Nutrition regarding the beneficial effects of low carb and very low carb ketogenic diets for the treatment of type 2 diabetics. Unfortunately, the main article is behind a paywall,...