Exercise & Inflammation – A complete Review of the last 4 years!
It’s time for a comprehensive review folks, connecting dots and drawing some conclusions; 4 yrs of LIHF living in one blog post!
It’s time for a comprehensive review folks, connecting dots and drawing some conclusions; 4 yrs of LIHF living in one blog post!
Life before and after going keto The image on the left was taken at what I would call “peak carbs” and the worst moment of my life as far as my health was concerned. This was around 18 months before starting out on LCHF. I remember struggling just to lift my young daughter who weighed…
When I first started LCHF, one of my first concerns was eating. There would clearly have to be some changes but what kind and what, if anything, would be the impact on my social life?
Food experts at war on new advice to "eat more fat" @DrAseemMalhotra pic.twitter.com/OF8wQx8CZ9 — Dr Maryanne Demasi (@MaryanneDemasi) May 23, 2016 Anyone following this blog will not be surprised by this headline. The latest report by the UK National Obesity Forum states that: Low-fat food has had “disastrous health consequences” and should be reversed. Eating…
Finally, the sun is out and summer is back once more in the Nordics. Time to get those shoes & socks off and the flips on for some precious and FREE Vitamin D, courtesy of the sun. In one of my earlier posts prior to the winter, I explained how I was increasing my Vitamin…
It’s been a while since my last post for which I can only apologize. Contrary to any rumors out there I haven’t fallen off the LCHF wagon. On the contrary, this year marks both my fourth year of LCHF and my 50th on this planet! All bio-markers remain excellent and, to be perfectly frank, I’ve never felt better!!…
What exactly is Metabolic Syndrome and why does it matter? The term Metabolic Syndrome is largely credited to Dr Gerald Reaven who initially termed it “syndrome X”, a collection of symptoms associated with insulin resistance that significantly increase your risk of acquiring cardiovascular disease. He was one of the first to note that low fat/ high carb diets should…
This is probably the post a lot of you have been waiting for; “how much can I drink when it comes to LCHF?” The simple answer is the less the better! Over the last 20 years or so, both the cost and availability of alcohol have respectively gone down/ up, such that now it is…
A record 135 people per week in the UK are losing limbs due to diabetes, according to the Guardian newspaper. If you ever doubted the serious nature of diabetes then all you have to do is read this article. What is even more scary is the fact that statistically, most of these people will die within five…
Summer is here, and what better than to chill out with a delicious LCHF Coconut Cream Frappe. The inspiration for this came from my recent holiday to Greece, home of the frappe. You simply can’t visit Greece in the summer without trying out a frappe. The trouble of course is that they tend to come…