Hyperlipid

Just took a break from reading about the destruction of the carbohydrate hypothesis when this scandalous tidbit popped up: I might ha...

Well, being back online is one thing. Having the time to actually do any posting appears to be quite another... At the moment I'm actual...

OK, BT have set up a string and two tin cans to our village and Virgin Media are providing copper wire broadband, which is reasonably fast. ...

The plan for tomorrow is not blogging, many posts that there are in the wings: Peter

EDIT from later in the day. I put this comment up on Stan's blog after reading the full text: Stan, I think we have to note that weight...

Laura and Elizabeth (thanks for full text) both forwarded links to this study . Low carb diets, in the correct mouse model, delay onset and ...

There is a study , headed by Barnard (of PCRM infamy), purported to show the benefits of a low fat vegan diet for the management of type two...

Got a brief look around the net this morning. I see Tom Naughton has skipped his meds again . If the enforcement order isn't working it...

Just before I get back to the prolonged fasting and weight loss post I thought I'd put this picture up. It's slightly modified for c...

From The Western Way of Death, Malcolm Carruthers, p20-21, 1974 (back when I worked for the East Midland Electricity Board as a COBOL progra...

Last one liner post and I'll try and get to older comments as soon as I can: The name Surwit is familiar. I have this niggling feeling t...

I think Liz, Dexter and THINCS where first in with this study . Can't find it in Pubmed yet but I've got the pdf. OK, first there wa...

I'm assuming everyone knows that Niaspan has recently bombed as a supplement to a statin. There's a nice summary here . Let's se...

Apologies for not getting to reply to emails and to the comments from the last post, several will take some time and there are a few one lin...

I think we have to be very careful with the term fasting insulin. If we read, in a clinical paper, that fasting insulin level was X iu/ml it...

This post is a bit rushed so apologies for typos/grammar, but there is a just usable swell and low tide in First Bay is in just over an hour...

I think we have to look at the LIRKO mouse . This fascinating beastie was brought to my attention by Chris Masterjohn and it's hard to k...

Vitro's Distort in the background.

If we look at the extremes of substrate source for the provision of bulk calories we have the choice of either fat or carbohydrate. Under hi...

Let's look this abstract . Thanks to Liz for the full text. The key quote is, of course: "In conclusion, despite preventing weight ...