By the ABC National Reporting Team’s Alison Branley and medical reporter Sophie Scott. 16 Jul 2016. Australian researchers have uncovered new evidence explaining why using artificial sweeteners might lead people to put on weight. Research at the University of Sydney has examined how sweeteners impact the brain’s response to food intake. Previous studies have already
Read moreBy Hayley Gleeson, ABC, 27 Jun 2016, 9:40am The sheen on the world of wellness — of sugar-free this, and gluten-free that — is finally starting to wear off. During a visit to Australia earlier this year, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson gently denounced clean eating and other restrictive diets as unbalanced and unsustainable. “I want
Read moreAnahad O’Connor Published: September 13, 2016 – The Age The sugar industry in the US paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University
Read moreBy David Ludwig, October 18, 2016 David Ludwig is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and the author of the book “Always Hungry? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells and Lose Weight Permanently.” (CNN)Normally, science advances by trial and error. When an experiment fails, researchers question assumptions, formulate new ideas
Read morePlease note: This is an abbreviated version of the full scientific study. If you want to read the full version with all the scientific data and references, please contact Nathan. Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base Richard D. Feinman Ph.D., Wendy K. Pogozelski Ph.D., Arne Astrup
Read moreBy Margaret Burin, 9.07.16, ABC. What began as a pin-hole sized lesion on the bottom of Alan Tillotson’s foot quickly turned into a nasty infection, leading to the amputation of his leg. Like many people with diabetes, the 65-year-old country Victorian truck driver isn’t quite sure how the wound first developed. It might have been
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