Category Archives: Adipose Tissue

Fatty Acids: You Are What You Eat

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Robert Barrington

High quality diets are protective of disease. However, defining a high quality diet is difficult, but some consensus has been reached in this regard from nutritional scientists. Generally, diets containing high concentrations of processed and manufactured foods with long shelf … Continue reading →

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High Protein Diets: Are they Really Low Carbohydrate Diets?

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Research suggests that high protein diets are effective at causing weight loss. For example, in a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition1, researchers used a meta-analysis to compare the effects of standard protein calorie restricted diets … Continue reading →

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Unsaturated Fatty Acids: Beyond Eicosanoids

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Unsaturated fatty acids are those that possess a double bond within their structure. A monounsaturated fatty acids therefore has a single double bond, whereas the prefix ‘poly’ signifies multiple double bonds. Unsaturated oils are those that contain a predominance of … Continue reading →

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Central Adiposity: Harbinger of Doom

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Robert Barrington

The body mass index (BMI) is the current accepted medical technique for assessing the degree to which a subject is overweight, and by extrapolation their risk of cardiovascular disease. The Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) has BMI classifications for normal weight, … Continue reading →

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Fish Oil Fights Inflammation

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Obesity is a symptom of the metabolic syndrome, which in turn is caused by low quality diets containing high amounts of fructose. High fructose intakes are deleterious to metabolic regulation because they induce insulin resistance in hepatocytes and skeletal muscle. … Continue reading →

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Plasma Fatty Acids and Body Fat

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Robert Barrington

ietary fat is digestion begins within the mouth and stomach by the action of salivary lipase, and is subsequently completed in the small intestine by the action of pancreatic lipase. This process is enhanced in the duodenum by the action … Continue reading →

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Too Sweet and Too Fat

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Robert Barrington

ietary fructose is increasingly being seen as the cause of obesity. This is because fructose is the primary driver of mammalian insulin resistance that leads to abdominal fat accumulation and development of the metabolic syndrome. The most common fructose containing … Continue reading →

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Intramuscular Fat and Insulin Resistance

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Robert Barrington

The metabolic syndrome (syndrome X) is increasingly being seen as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome is a group of metabolic abnormalities that are believed to be caused by insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is characterised by a … Continue reading →

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Upper and Lower Body Fat Differences

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

he old obesity paradigm suggests that a positive energy balance causes accumulation of energy which is subsequently stored as fat in adipose tissue. However, recent evidence suggests that the situation is far more complex than this. It is considered that … Continue reading →

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Overfeeding

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Obesity is claimed by many to be caused by greed on the part of the individual, such that a positive energy balance results in incremental weight gain. Evidence for this is claimed to come from overfeeding studies whereby normal weight … Continue reading →

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