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Hi Doug, I have enjoyed your posts on Thatsfit.ca for awhile now, and have you to thank for providing a link to Weston Price website, resulting in a years worth of research, which has led me to this question: Do you have any information on … Read more
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Everyone knows that a diet high in sugar and bad fats may lead to obesity. But what they may not know is that an unhealthy Western diet is actually causing obesity on the genetic level. A new study published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (online at the FASEB Journal) reports that eating a high fat, high sugar diet actually turns on genes that cause the body to store more fat than it needs.
From the press release, “In the research report, scientists show that foods high in fat and sugar stimulate a known opioid receptor, called the kappa opioid receptor, which plays a role in fat metabolism. When this receptor is stimulated, it causes our bodies to hold on to far more fat than our bodies would do otherwise.”
The research was done on two different groups of mice — one group who had had their kappa opioid receptor artificially deactivated and the other group unaltered. Both groups were fed an energy-dense, high-sugar, high-fat diet for 16 weeks. What the researchers found was that, while the mice with the unaltered receptor became obese, those with the altered receptor remained lean.
Continue reading High Fat, High Sugar Diet Turns On ‘Fat Genes’
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We’ve just passed through the first week or so of official winter, so there’s truly no escaping the fact that cold season is upon us. To combat the possibility of catching a cold, many Canadians turn to vitamin C, vitamin D, multivitamin and mineral support, and maybe even echinacea or resveratrol. But several studies have given credence to the use of an old Chinese Medicine remedy that you may want to add to your arsenal of cold-fighting nutrients.
A study out of the University of Alberta published in The Canadian Medical Association Journal a few years back found that supplementing with an extract of North American ginseng lowers your chance of getting a cold and reduces the severity of colds once you have them. North American ginseng, grown primarily in Ontario, British Columbia and Wisconsin, is a root that resembles a parsnip in appearance and is highly valued for its medicinal properties.
Continue reading Try Ginseng to Fight a Winter Cold
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I’m currently in the midst of my annual trek home to the parents’ place for the holidays. Like a lot of people, no doubt, I always have mixed feelings about my return to the ol’ homestead. I love hanging out with my family; the raucous, “spirited … Read more
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My past posts on chocolate have specified that the only way to derive all the health benefits that are being touted about chocolate is to eat it raw and organic. However, as more and more science builds up, I’ve found myself in the position of having … Read more
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A specific type of mint, Hyptis crenata or Brazilian mint, has been used by indigenous healers in Brazil to treat pain for thousands of years. UK researchers at Newcastle University have presented a new study which has found that this herbal therapy … Read more