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Immunity and Metabolism

In this week (22.5.24) Diabetes UK announced that there are now almost 168,000 people aged under 40 years in the UK who live with type 2 diabetes, an increase of more than 47,000 since 2016-17. Diagnoses up 39% in 6 years, with the condition fuelled by obesity, health inequalities and junk food – meaning ultra processed food. According to the report, the total cost associated with diabetes in the UK currently stands at £23.7 billion and is predicted to rise to £39.8 billion by 2035/6. To put this...

Metabolism Weight management Cardiovascular Health

Ultra-Processed Foods – Can/should they be made Healthier?

Ultra-processed foods are understood to be detrimental to human health across several parameters, including macronutrient and micronutrient composition, fibre, effects of food additives, toxins, heat exposure, and packaging.[1] They are only cheap (as promoted by various MPs) when the costs of their negative metabolic effects are externalised to personal health care and public health budgets. The cost of the metabolically related and rapidly increasing obesity crisis and just one of the consequences...

Probiotics Weight management Vitamins

Specialist Probiotics & Fat-Soluble Vitamins

It seems that these two long-standing areas of oral intervention in nutritional therapy and related clinical management are experiencing an ongoing and much-welcomed update in terms of application and use. Specialist Probiotics Probiotics are steadily evolving their application into specific clinical needs with recognised genera and strains (such as Akkermansia muciniphila), as opposed to their more familiar, nonspecific ecologic application. Research papers continue to show a steady progression...

Weight management Diets

Artificial Sweeteners Attack Health Via the Microbiome

Oh Boy… the journal Nature has this week (9.10.14) identified the insidious effect of consuming ‘diet’ or non caloric sweeteners on the burgeoning mass of human adipocytes and they have really taken a good run at it.[1] Non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) were introduced over a century ago as means for providing sweet taste to foods without the associated high energy content of caloric sugars. NAS consumption gained much popularity owing to their reduced costs, low caloric intake and perceived...

Immunity and Metabolism

Ultra-Processed Foods – Can/should they be made Healthier?

Specialist Probiotics & Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Artificial Sweeteners Attack Health Via the Microbiome

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