Moderate Method

Author: Kevin Bae

  • Poor metabolic health is the weakness that allows COVID-19 to kill

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    It’s not the virus that is the big killer. It’s the virus plus the Standard American Diet (SAD). The US will suffer the most because we are the least metabolically healthy. The map above shows where U.S residents are at increased risk for severe Covid-19 illness, compared with the national average. It is based on…

  • Turns out breakfast is not the most important meal of the day.

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    If you’re trying to lose weight it seems that breakfast hurts way more than it helps. As the quality of the included studies was mostly low, the findings should be interpreted with caution. Currently, the available evidence does not support modification of diets in adults to include the consumption of breakfast as a good strategy…

  • The saturated fat falacy

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    Professor Timothy Noakes is writing a series of articles to try to put the nail in the coffin of the modern western diet and dispatch forever the shoddy work of Ancel Keys. This is why you should immediately distrust anyone that says, “The science is settled.” Science by it’s very nature is never settled. Those…

  • Can you eat sweet potatoes on the Keto Diet?

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    The short answer is yes if you limit the amount. I would recommend on days where you want to eat a sweet potato to severely restrict the other carbs you will eat the rest of that day. After all a SWEET POTATO is a double carbohydrate whammy. A sweet potato is a type of starchy…

  • Type-2 Diabetes patients with COVID-19 and control blood sugar fair better

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    The investigators said they were surprised to see that patients with well-controlled blood sugar had lower mortality rates compared with those with poorly controlled levels. Furthermore, those with well-managed T2D also received fewer medical interventions, including supplemental oxygen or ventilation, and had fewer overall complications. “We were surprised to see such favorable outcomes in [the]…

  • 25% of COVID-19 deaths in England had diabetes

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    More than a quarter of all NHS patients who have died after being infected with Covid-19 had diabetes, according to new statistics from NHS England. Between 31 March and 12 May, a total of 5,873 patients with diabetes died in hospital from Covid-19, 26 per cent of all coronavirus deaths. It’s the first time data…

  • What is Dry Fasting and should you do it?

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    Dry fasting is when you don’t consume anything during your fast including liquids. Should you dry fast? In my opinion the answer is no. Absolutely not. You can survive for long periods of time without eating but you will not survive for days on end without drinking. I’ve never subscribed to the idea that it…

  • Processed food companies will tempt you to spend

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    With all the uncertainty in the economy people are cutting back. More than 35 million people have filed for unemployment and consumer confidence is super low. If you’re on the Keto Diet or you’re low carb be aware that the big processed food companies are going to do everything they can to get you to…

  • Insulin resistance and cancer in black women

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    Insulin resistance was one factor that mediated invasive breast cancer prognosis among black women, researchers reported. In a cross-sectional study of 115 women newly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, metabolic syndrome was twice as prevalent among black women than white women (40% vs 20%, P<0.0001), according to Emily Gallagher, MD, of the Icahn School of…