Would you Adam and Eve it?
North-east Africa, 200K years BCE: Was there ever an Adam or an Eve, and did they live together 6,000 years
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Author: Chris
Chris Barclay is a retired GP and medical writer. His special interest in diet and health began with a chance encounter; a patient told him how he had lost weight by cutting out carbohydrate foods. Chris has researched the subject ever since. He was principal investigator for the ISAIAH-Project, a diet trial in pre-diabetic patients. His conclusion: processed carbs, starchy foods and sugar are the main problems; they are driving our Diabesity epidemic. Chris worked for many years in Sheffield, and more recently as a GP in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK.
COVID-19 (1) Face masks and incremental gain
When it comes to protecting our communities against contracting COVID-19, especially its more vulnerable members, I am reminded of the
Continue readingOmelette (plus) yet again
I keep chickens and so I have a plentiful supply of lovely eggs. I often have eggs in some form
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Heroes and Villains No. 4 Margaret Keys
Eat Well and Stay Well In 1959 Margaret and Ancel Keys wrote their first cookery book Eat Well and Stay
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Heroes and Villains No. 3 William Prout
There’s a chemist in the kitchen London, 1831: At a time when the functions of the human body were considered
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Heroes and Villains No. 2 Lulu Hunt Peters
Don’t eat food, eat calories California 1918: By the end of the First World War Lulu Hunt Peters, an east
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Heroes and Villains No. 1. William Banting.
like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn … human beans [are] bread… sugar, beer
Continue readingA late, late breakfast; left overs (mostly)
There is no rule saying ‘though shalt have cereal and fruit for breakfast’. I often enjoy eating up left overs
Continue readingEngland’s (former) Chief Medical Officer speaks out against sugar
“I was horrified as a mother when I took a jar of baby food off the shelf. I didn’t expect
Continue readingFlow chart 1: How to get diabetes
Ask most medics what Type-2 diabetes is and they will tell you it’s about having too high a blood sugar
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