Tag: fructose
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HyProCICO – The theory behind obesity
Why a theory behind obesity? Isn’t it just CICO? I’ll use a simple analogy. You find a little puddle of water so you start mopping it up but then it comes back so you do some more mopping. The puddle of water keeps coming back and bigger if you don’t do any mopping so people…
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Fructose, the really bad guy
I came across a couple of resources and started to appreciate how different fructose is from glucose. In the low carb community, carbohydrates are obviously avoided or at least high amounts of it as they are generally considered bad. I support this approach but when we zoom in on fructose we notice that it is…
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Insulin Resistance
Research in the past and present has shown us that fat causes insulin resistance. With ketogenic diets becoming increasingly popular, many people fear for a potential negative effect by inducing this insulin resistance. It is true that insulin resistance does appear on low carb high fat diets such as the ketogenic diet but the context…