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Should I Stop Eating Erythritol?

Should I Stop Eating Erythritol

Should I Stop Eating Erythritol? The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk. Commentary by Dana Carpender. For those of you who are shaking your heads in puzzlement, let me first explain: on February 27, 2023, a medical journal article (Nature Medicine) regarding erythritol was published online alerting the world that the use of erythritol sweetener could be damaging to our health. Dana Carpender provides her perspective on it.

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Let’s Go to the Fair! How to Stay Low-Carb at Your County Fair

Let’s Go to the Fair

Summer is here! And for many of us, especially those of us who live in rural-ish areas, that means a trip to the county fair. Too many folks simply assume that “It wouldn’t be the fair without ” and give themselves permission to gobble every carb in sight, many of them deep-fried in questionable oils, for the duration.

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Biohackers With Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin: Meet the Good Guys

Biohackers With Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin

The Open Insulin Project, a biohacker collective that is trying to produce the life-saving drug and provide it to people with diabetes for free, or close to it. Diabetes has become the most expensive disease in the United States, The Open Insulin Project believes one solution to the pricing crisis lies in enabling patients and hospitals to create insulin themselves. 

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Can Workplace Bullying & Violence be Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes?

Can Workplace Bullying & Violence be a risk factors for type 2 diabetes?

A multi-cohort study with meta-analysis was conducted to examine whether employees exposed to social stressors at work, such as workplace bullying and violence, have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The study included 45,905 men and women (40–65 years old and not diabetes at the start of the study) from four studies conducted in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

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CarbSmart Magazine Issue 06: September 2013: Cholesterol Clarity & Breast Cancer Awareness

CarbSmart Magazine September 2013 Issue

In the September 2013 issue of CarbSmart Magazine available now in the iTunes Newsstand, we examine Jimmy Moore's new book Cholesterol Clarity and National Breast Cancer Month. The CarbSmart Magazine App now includes the Premiere issue, March 2013: Fat Fast FREE. Just make sure you go to the Library in the App and click on the March 2013 issue.

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6 Reasons to Attend the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2014

CarbSmart Magazine September 2013

6 Reasons to Attend the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2014: I've been a CrossFit athlete for close to two years and I consider myself an evolutionary eater for the purposes of health and performance. To say I was very excited to attend this conference is an understatement. I had never heard of AHS before the publishers of CarbSmart asked me to attend, but one look at the website and I was sold.

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