Exercise and blood glucose levels: Insulin and glucose responses to exercise
The notion that exercise reduces blood glucose levels is widespread. That notion is largely incorrect. Exercise appears to h…
June 2010
Compensatory adaptation as a unifying concept: Understanding how we respond to diet and lifestyle changes
Trying to understand each body response to each diet and lifestyle change, individually, is certainly a losing battle. It is…
What about some offal? Boiled tripes in tomato sauce
Tripe dishes are made with the stomach of various ruminants. The most common type of tripe is beef tripe from cattle. Like m…
Pretty faces are average faces: Genetic diversity and health
Many people think that the prettiest faces are those with very unique features. Generally that is not true. Pretty faces are…
Soccer as play and exercise: Resistance and endurance training at the same time
Many sports combine three key elements that make them excellent fitness choices: play, resistance exercise, and endurance ex…
Fructose in fruits may be good for you, especially if you are low in glycogen
Excessive dietary fructose has been shown to cause an unhealthy elevation in serum triglycerides. This and other related fac…
Cortisol, stress, excessive gluconeogenesis, and visceral fat accumulation
Cortisol is a hormone that plays several very important roles in the human body . Many of these are health-promoting, under …
Growth hormone secretion drops with age, but not exactly in the way you would expect
Many people assume that growth hormone secretion drops with age in a somewhat linear fashion, as implied by this diagram . T…
Cortisol response to stress is much more elevated with ingestion of glucose than with protein or fat
Cortisol is a hormone that does a number of different things; a jack of all trades among hormones, so to speak. It tells the…
