Readings

e-zines

• Here's an article referred by a friend: Atkins-Style Ketogenic Diet Shines in Blood Sugar Control for Obese Diabetics. A comparison of GI diet and Atkins diet. An interesting finding is that people on the Atkins diet actually lose more weight with more calories than people on the GI diet. Supports the notion of the power of carbs on the insulin challenged.
• Mark Bittman's blog: Bitten. He's the author of "Food Matters", and "How to Cook Everything"
• The National Weight Control Registry (American), is an interesting research database of people who have lost more than 30 lbs and kept it off.
• Obesity: The Killer Combination of Salt, Fat And Sugar, by David A Kessler, a former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.
• Obesity and Food Addiction Summit - This gives some interesting references on the subject of food addictions.
• Food reward and overeating - report of scientific research into the changing effects of food reward with weight gain - surprisingly, obese have less reward for eating, and thus crave more food.

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