published by drclyde on November 27, 2011 - 4:13pm
published by wheatgerm on November 26, 2011 - 8:32am
I am trying understand the need for PH balance in my diet. A company Young life http://www.lifeionizers.com/compare-all-ionizers.html sells filter systems for several thousand dollars that outputs water at a PH level 10 saying that our unbalanced diet requires that we have much more alkaline water. The also recommend eating lots of vegetables which helps keep the diet more alkaline. There is also a body of thinking that says dairy should be eliminated because it increases acidity.
Hi Clyde,
Is there any current research on the value or risk of consumption of sports drinks, especially for children? I see Gatorade is served at all of the Stanford sport camps on campus. Thanks. Looking forward to your class tomorrow night. -Mimi
I loved your class yesterday at Stanford. It rocked!!!
You are hilarious, informative and inspirational. Thanks for teaching an extra class next week.
- Andrea
published by drclyde on March 3, 2011 - 11:27am
I took Subway sandwiches to feed the medical students in my Food Pharmacology class yesterday. Because no sandwich place on the planet gives you enough vegetables to slow down the bread digestion rate enough to optimize health, I asked them for several trays of vegetables so the students could max out on their own. In the condiments bag was salad dressing in case anyone wanted to avoid the carbs altogether.
The Paleo Diet claims that beans and lentils should be excluded from the diet because they contain antinutrients. It is obvious that no one claiming this has done a simple "Google scholar" search using the key word "antinutrient", because if they did they would find out the potential problem is compounds called lectins, and doing a search for "lectins" takes you to research papers showing that cooking eliminates the lectins.
"Few principles are more fundamental to the scientific and ethical validity of clinical research than that studies should address questions needing to be answered, and that they are designed in a way that will produce a meaningful answer. A prerequisite
This article (click image to enlarge; Br J Sports Med, 15 Dec 2010, epub ahead of print) shows that faster marathoners tend to drink less than slower marathoners when racing, but that fluid intake is all over the map, with high and
Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan has said that being a better citizen of the world in the 21st century "requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions, rather than be captive of them". I would argue that the same is true for us to improve how we take care of ourselves. Ignoring our survival instinct for sugar, fats, and satiety leads to thinking that at the New Year or some other tortured moment in our lives we can simply start eating healthier.
Most of the trans fats in the American diet come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. They are created by man to increase shelf life, and they are much worse for us than saturated fats. On the other hand, trans fats produced naturally by bacteria in the rumen of ruminants (like cows) have never been linked to increased disease, and one has now actually been correlated to reduced disease risk (click on image to see reference): trans-palmitoleate in meat and dairy, primarily milk. Since polyunsat
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