Sharing w/others – lessons learned

Soda consumption has been linked to everything from obesity to high blood pressure. But if you’re worried about gout, it may be especially important to steer clear of it.
Gout is on the rise. In the 1970’s, the number of people with gout was 20 pe…

A new study dramatically increases knowledge of how taste cells detect sugars.  This could be a pivotal step in developing strategies to limit overconsumption.
It turns out that taste cells have several additional sugar detectors, over and above t…

If people knew how aspartame (NutraSweet) was made, they might be a lot more reluctant to eat it.  It doesn’t sound like any “food” you’ve ever heard of.

According to Made How, once the basic amino acids used to make it are produced (by …

One of principal arguments food corporations have used to defend high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is that it is chemically similar to table sugar. Manufacturers have stated repeatedly that HFCS contains at most 55 percent fructose, little different from…

What’s in a name? Everything, if you’re trying to sell a product. But what happens if that product has a name that turns people off – or a name that’s gotten a not-so-good reputation lately? Answer: rebrand it with a new name and pocket the pro…

If you love honey for its 100 percent purity and natural taste, then it’s possible that your next trip to the grocery store could be not only bitterly disappointing, but dangerous to your health. According to Walletpop.com, real honey on some stores

A 12-week London study was recently conducted involving 58 type 2 diabetics with hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels over 7 percent. Hemoglobin A1c is a marker for long-term glycemic control in diabetics.
 
After 12 weeks on 2g of cinnamon per day, stud…

The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has petitioned the U.S. FDA to allow manufacturers the option of using the term “corn sugar” instead of “high fructose corn syrup”.
In their press release on the subject, they claim that “independent resear…

Disruption of genes that control circadian rhythms can lead to diabetes. Mice with defective copies of the genes develop abnormalities in pancreatic cells that eventually render the cells unable to release insulin.

Circadian rhythms are cyclical patterns in biological activities. The results of the study suggest that disruption of your daily clock could also contribute to diabetes by impairing your pancreas’ ability to deliver insulin.

Eurekalert reports:

“The researchers examined pancreatic islet beta cells, which secrete insulin when blood sugar levels increase. They genetically engineered some mice to have defective CLOCK genes and some to also lack the BMAL1 gene … [S]tudy showed that the islet cells in the mutant animals created normal amounts of insulin, but the CLOCK mutant cells were defective in releasing the hormone.” PostID=276761″

By Elijah Many people interested in staying healthy have switched to agave as a safer “natural” sweetener. They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that most agave is actually WORSE than HFCS. Once I realized this, I wrote a special report on agave to inform the […]