Personalized Diet and Glucose Response
Your blood sugar rises to a different level after eating certain foods. How high it rises will determine if the food will make you fat or sustain you.
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The Food Additive That May Be Causing Obesity
A new study shows that a common food additive, emulsifiers, may be a source for obesity, inflammation, and bad problems. More and more, we are finding out about the microbiome of our gut.
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Obesity and Gut Bacteria: Fecal Transplant Causing Obesity?
A woman gets a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter and then becomes obese. Was it the gut bacteria that did it, or some other factors? Dr. Terry Simpson weights in…
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Super Antibiotic for Superbugs: We Can’t Win this War
The new antibiotic recently discovered may provide a powerful weapon in our arsenal against bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. But we need to be careful, because the “friendly fire” of this antibiotic may harm us.
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Heroin vs. Over Eating: Which is Harder to Kick?
There is a high level of weight regain after diets. Dieting is a multi-billion dollar industry that peddles more hope than weight loss. Is the 95% return of lost weight that was reported half a century ago still the same in light lifestyle modifications with modern drugs, exercise, psychological support, and understanding of the microbiome and evolutionary biology?
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Germs: as Much a Part of Us as DNA
The bacteria that occupy our bodies are transmitted to us every much as DNA. They are not a foreign species- an argument can be made that they are every bit a part of us as our own DNA
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