Category Archives: Fruit

Nutrition On The Go

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Robert Barrington

When you are next out and about, have a look at the types of foods you can buy as snacks. Most will fall into the category of carbohydrate based foods. Of these foods most are also refined. This is problematic … Continue reading →

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Do Antioxidants Have to Be Bioavailable to Be Beneficial?

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Free radicals are chemicals that possess unpaired electrons. This makes them chemically very reactive. Free radicals can react with other chemicals, and in the process electrons are transferred to the radical, causing the other reactants to become destabilised to a … Continue reading →

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Vegetables Lower Cholesterol Levels

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The nutritional literature shows that changes to the levels of certain plasma lipoproteins that carry cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of developing the disease. In particular high plasma levels of the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL; triglycerides), the … Continue reading →

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Soluble Fibre and Short Chain Fatty Acids

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Plant fibre is an important part of the human diet. In fact, plant fibres may be conditionally essential to human health where starch forms part of the macronutrient intake. This relates to the ability of dietary fibre to modulate glucose … Continue reading →

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Mice Like Flavonoids Too: An Apple A Day Keeps The Vet Away

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Animal studies are interesting. Many dismiss their relevance to humans because of the differing physiological and biochemical systems of non-human animals. It is true that animals are dissimilar in many ways, and differences between humans and other mammals should not … Continue reading →

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Fruits and Vegetables Protect From Obesity

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Obesity is a Worldwide phenomenon that is reaching epidemic proportions. However, analysis of obesity data however shows that its prevalence tends to be associated with living in developed nations, such as Western Europe, North America and Australasia, and with consumption … Continue reading →

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Fruit Versus Fruit Juice: Blood Sugar Effects

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The absorption of glucose causes a release of insulin from the pancreas. This insulin is required to allow the uptake of glucose to cells and therefore has a blood sugar lowering effect. The rise in blood sugar seen following ingestion … Continue reading →

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Whole Plant Foods: The Original Cell Structure

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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Plant Foods Prevent Western Disease

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Robert Barrington

With industrialisation has come a shift from traditional diets to the modern Western diet. Traditional diets are those eaten prior to complex food processing, and generally they contain high amounts of unprocessed and unrefined foods that maintain their original nutrient … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Diet: Fat Loss Without Calorie Counting

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The energy balance theory of weight gain is a clever propaganda ruse. Spread surreptitiously by the food industry and the diet industry (really one in the same) deep into the subconsciousness of the general population, this theory is poison. Based … Continue reading →

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