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When overweight or obese people lose weight, using a low carb diet, they can have a significant reduction in inflammation throughout their body, as measured by three common markers….
Read More »High-protein Diets Work
Participants who were on a high-protein diet lost 1.8 extra pounds and more body fat at 12 weeks compared with those on a standard-protein diet….
Read More »USDA’s Online Tool to Track Your Diet, Weight, and Exercise
USDA’s Online Tool to Track Your Diet, Weight, and Exercise Facebook isn’t the only online phenomenon to reach more than one million users in less than a year of launching. The USDA’s SuperTracker, which launched only eleven months ago, is an interactive, online tool that currently helps 1.5 million consumers …
Read More »How Diet Impacts GDM Progressing to Type 2
Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) can greatly reduce the risk of progressing to diabetes with diet, but which diet?…
Read More »New Analysis Touts Low Carb Diets
A new analysis from Duke University found that those on a low carb diet lost 18 pounds….
Read More »Diet & Fitness Tracker for iPad
SparkPeople iOS/Free Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbSKX22tuA Upon opening, this application prompts the user to enter personal information e.g. date of birth, gender, weight, and weight loss goals.
Read More »Calorie Counter: Diets & Activities
Arawella Corporation iOS/Free Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfcOlP-Hn6U With this app, users can create their own diets and plans for physical activity. After creating a diet profile, users can set their own goals for weight loss or maintaining weight.
Read More »Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal.com iOS and Android The iPad version has a well-designed and pleasing interface. Food intake can be recorded manually or via barcode.
Read More »Robert Stanton, MD: The Research on Low-Protein Diets and Kidney Disease
Dr. Stanton gives us his perspective on low-protein diets with a brief overview of the research and thinking behind these types of diets for patients with kidney disease, and highlights some of the ongoing questions and concerns in this area of study. He also discusses how many of the studies …
Read More »Robert Stanton, MD: High Protein Diets and Kidney Disease
Dr. Robert Stanton explains how all the studies on low/high protein diets can confuse physicians and that there are parallels between the ongoing debates about the “correct levels” of A1c and albumin level in urine as researchers constantly add to the level of knowledge. He also points out that the type …
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