Diet & Nutrition

By Featured Writer Sheri R. Colberg, PhD. As a clinical exercise researcher, I frequently have found it difficult to study exercise effects in people with health complications, even though this is critical information to know in order to make appropriate exercise guidelines. Try convincing your university Institutional Research Board, or IRB, that it is advisable to exercise people with eye issues like unstable proliferative retinopathy to find out if breath-holding, jumping, jarring, or head-down activities cause them to experience retinal hemorrhages. Understandably, that is not going to happen, nor should it.

The pendulum has swung from too much fat to too many carbs.

Artificial sweeteners may offer short-term weight loss, but at what cost?

Fiscal policies targeting diet can be used as a deterrent to poor dietary choices.

Antioxidants and other polyphenols present in coffee confer healthy benefits to the body, which may include lowering insulin resistance, inflammation and biomarkers of liver function.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas. Dr. Nadolsky explains his preferences for patients when discussing weight loss.

Extra virgin olive oil, like statins, promotes lipid lowering in people with diabetes who have dyslipidemia.

Study focuses on quality and quantity of carb consumption during pregnancy.

Fasting found to lead to deterioration of glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes.

Chemicals such as heterocyclic amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic amines (PAH) found in overcooked meat play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D).