Peter wants to demonstrate that insulin and the foods that stimulate insulin, not excess calories, are at the heart of the most pervasive chronic diseases: obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer...
Category: Food & Nutrition
Even if you didn't have diabetes you wouldn't eat ice cream for breakfast, right? But when it comes to carbs, many of America's common, quick breakfast foods - the ones we've been taught are healthy - are bigger carb offenders than ice cream. A serving of Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream has 23 grams of carb.
If you told me to pick one thing to eat every day, three meals a day, forever, I would probably choose a bagel with cream cheese (assuming I didn't have to factor in diabetes).
Before diabetes, bagels were one of my staples. And while I don't have a hard time avoiding carbs in general, if there are bagels in the room, the best thing for me to do is get away since bagels are about as high in carb as it gets.
Congress declared that the tomato paste on frozen pizza qualified it as a vegetable.
I'll give up all the carbs in the world in order to take care of my diabetes. But coffee isn't negotiable.
As I learned more about ways I would need to change my eating habits, I envisioned perpetual hunger....
Some evidence suggests glycemic load and glycemic index diets can benefit overall health, especially for people with diabetes...
We poured sardine oil into a bowl, dipped our fingers into it and then rubbed it, generously, all over our kittens, as if we were shampooing them...
I was steamed at the disparity between the barrage of media messages and government food guidelines to eat healthfully and how we make it so difficult to do so...
I began by reading labels. I was amazed by what I found, for example, how much added sugar there was in something like tomato paste...