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Ketogenic Diet Intervention Improves Psoriatic Arthritis Symptoms

HCPLive

At the end of the intervention period, all patients displayed a significant reduction in weight of approximately 3 BMI points.

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Physiology Friday #254: Fueling for Performance and Health: Lessons from a Recent Low-Carb vs. High-Carb Study in Athletes

Physiologically Speaking

Last week, I wrote about a new study comparing low-carb and high-carb diets for endurance performance. 1 If you want the tl;dr, here it is: After 6 weeks on either a low- or high-carb diet, athletes experienced similar performance outcomes during a time-to-exhaustion test , a result that vindicates low-carb diets once and for all.

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The factors behind the shifting trends of ischemic heart disease and stroke

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Researchers find that in East and West Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Central Asia and Oceania, ischemic heart disease is increasing, which may be attributed to eight factors that include diet, high BMI, household air pollution and more.

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Central regulation of feeding and body weight by ciliary GPR75

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

Variants of the G protein–coupled receptor 75 (GPR75) are associated with a lower BMI in large-scale human exome-sequencing studies. Gpr75–/– mice displayed reduced food intake under high-fat diet (HFD) feeding, and pair-feeding normalized their body weight. However, how GPR75 regulates body weight remains poorly understood.

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Research highlights disparities in heart disease, stroke trends worldwide

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Wanghong Xu of Fudan University and colleagues find that in East and West Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Central Asia and Oceania, ischemic heart disease is increasing, which may be attributed to eight factors that include diet, high BMI, household air pollution and more.

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Physiology Friday #200: Higher Aerobic Fitness is Tied to Slower Biological Aging

Physiologically Speaking

In a new study on 144 older men, having a higher cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2 max) and muscle strength, lower levels of body fat, eating a diet higher in carbohydrates and antioxidants, and having a morning chronotype were associated with a slower rate of DNA-based biological aging.

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What To Eat To Lose Weight & Maintain Muscle

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Even in diabetics of normal weight (BMI<27), weight loss can reverse diabetes 2. Please go and read every single GLP-1 trial on weight loss (Average 15 kg) and show me where they got everyone to go on an extremely low-carb diet to avoid insulin spikes. That’s not to say that using a low-carb diet is not effective.

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