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| Dear Kelley Low-carbohydrate diet very effective for type 1 diabetics Type 1 diabetics need to inject insulin to keep blood sugar levels down, and are often advised to eat plenty of carbohydrate to 'balance' the insulin. That would be one way to look at it. Another would be to eat less carb, inject less insulin, and have better blood sugar control with less medication. There's a logic to this latter approach, and I've seen it work in practice. Now some Swedish researchers have tested this approach in a long-term study. Guess what? It works! For more on this, click this link. Why government and food industry initiatives are unlikely to curb obesity Last week I was invited on to the BBC Radio 4 consumer programme You and Yours to discuss the government and food industry initiatives to have us eat less and get us losing weight. For more on this, and why I think these approaches are almost certainly doomed to fail, click this link. Walking test found to be a good predictor of heart problems There's a notion in medicine that certain tests can help identify people at greatest risk of future health problems so they can be targeted with appropriate interventions. For the heart, cholesterol checking is a mainstay here, even though it has quite poor predictive value. I was interested to read some recent research which shows that in individuals with known heart disease, a simple walking test appears to have considerable predictive power in terms of identifying those at enhanced risk of future problems such as heart attack, heart failure and death. For more on this, click this link. To your good health! Dr John Briffa www.drbriffa.com | | |
