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The Potato Manifesto - Part 2/2: The Sweet Potato, Is It More Than Just the "En Vogue Tuber of the Year"?

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Image 1: A mixer like this would be one of the best choices to turn your healthy low-GI sweet (or regular) potato into a high GI "nightmare". If you've read yesterday's first part of the Potato Manifesto , you should by now be aware that the common notion of the pro-diabetic high-glycemic regular potato is another of the numerous black-or-white nutrition myths that do not become right, no matter how many bloggers and forum posters reiterate them. In today's second part of the series I will try to elucidate, whether the sweet potato, of which I would venture to say that she is the "en vogue tuber of the year", is not still the "safer starch alternative" . So bear with me while I am using my scientific peeling knife to check whether there is a bitter truth hidden beneath skin of the sweet potatoes ;-) Come on sweety, show me what's beneath your skin! Now, if we take a look at the literature, a review of the glycemic index of 33 commo...

Leaky Gut & Gluten Belly: Bacterial Firebugs Translocate from Your Gut to Your Ever-Growing Visceral Fat Depots

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Image 1: Gluttony or a victim of bacterial translocation from an unrecognized gluten-sensitive leaky gut (img from COPD Lighthouse ) "Leaky gut", for decades one of those concepts, the belief in which divided self-proclaimed "real scientists" from their "hippie" counterparts, has eventually found its way to mainstream science. What began with a few tentative studies into the role of a pathologically increased gut permeability in Crohn's disease and co., is about to become a recognized research area with about 150 related publications within the first 9 month of 2011 , alone. Out of these 150 publications, a study by Professor Pierre Desreumaux, and his colleagues from the Universitè Lille Nord de France ( Desreumaux. 2011 ) is unquestionably among those, which could have a major impact on the established image of the gut and its biota as an isolated system that sustains the rest of the body with nutrients and has - due to the insulating epithelia...
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