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Nutrition has long been recognised as a key feature in the management of diabetes. Before the introduction of insulin therapy, a heavily restricted dietary intervention, with the minimum carbohydrates necessary for survival, was used to treat the disease. The approach extended survival, in some...

Regardless of how much you exercise or how balanced your diet is, controlling your weight is more brain-related than you might have thought. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) show for the...

Sequential, societal trends in which first dietary fat and then dietary carbohydrate were vilified during recent decades have left dietary protein under an implied halo. The resulting infatuation is naïve, over-simplified, misguided, and misleading. Other than that — it’s perfect. Everything...

It all boils down to resistance training and proper food portions. So many times I’m asked, “Doctor, why can’t I lose weight? I barely eat anything at all. I skip breakfast, have a salad for lunch and a small dinner. What’s wrong with me?” How many of you can relate to this? When I ask...

Exercise damages the body and depletes nutrients and energy. Proper post-exercise nutrition can be restorative and supportive of energy and muscle recovery. Carbohydrates and creatine help restore energy reserves, and protein and amino acids can help the muscles adapt to mechanical damage and...