Hyperlipid

There are researchers within the worlds of both nutrition and cardiology who appear to be very determined to supply a message that failing t...

Germ free mice are quite interesting. I suppose that the first thing we can say about them is that they don’t have any bacterial fermentatio...

I'll keep this brief. The comments on the last post are awash with people trying to help my resident lipophobe out of his lipophobia. ...

Housekeeping: Endotoxin is always of some interest to an anaesthetist and the link between endotoxin uptake and high fat diets has been in m...

If anyone would like to combine a look at the pathology of low blood glucose levels with the psychology of diabetes research they might do w...

Having lived a great deal of my life in Norfolk, I’ve always rather liked the EPIC Norfolk publications. This was the  first paper  that I f...

It has been interesting to watch the discussions about safe starches on those rather limited areas of the internet which I frequent. Now, yo...

This link came to me from Bill Lagakos via Facebook. It covers a lot of ground and is, unavoidably, a little superficial in places when th...

Having a great week off work with my daughter, mostly swimming and gardening, so that blogging is off the radar as I'm fairly much off l...

Those adipose tissue TFAM knockout mice need a revisit . They have an engineered, adipose tissue specific, catastrophic injury to complex I...

This is more of a Facebook link than a blog post, but hats off to the BMJ as they have recently published some excellent articles in which n...

I don't ever watch television (we have no digital decoding box, the TV is for DVDs) and I can't waste the time to watch  this perfor...

Sid has recently put these two excellent links up on her Facebook timeline. The Protons thread is slowly working its way towards probable ca...

I hope we all remember Barnad's low fat vegan treatment for diabetes. This figure sums it up: By 74 weeks folks are n...

From Phillip (Thanks): Impaired glucose tolerance in low-carbohydrate diet: maybe only a physiological state . Like, like, like, like, ...

I just wanted to put up a brief mention of this paper on acipimox. Acipimox is an inhibitor of lipolysis. It's essentially useless as...

So far I've been thinking about insulin resistance as a normal physiological process for regulating the energy input in to each cell, on...

These mice keep asking me more questions that I'm comfortable with so the post is down subject to further thinking! Time for a Christ...

Post-obese people are probably rarer than pre-obese people but at least they can be quite conclusively identified. The main problem with mos...