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In individuals who have had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and have liver metastases, eating a low-carbohydrate diet is linked to fewer episodes of low blood sugar, while delaying the use of...
A woman who had gastric bypass surgery and has cancer spread to the liver experienced low blood sugar after meals, which coincided with high levels of insulin and c-peptide, suggesting her body was...
For women with gestational diabetes, eating either a lot or a little carbohydrate in the morning can both keep blood sugar levels within a healthy range more than 90% of the time, meaning both...
In women with gestational diabetes, eating most carbohydrates in the morning does not change fasting C-peptide levels compared to eating fewer carbohydrates in the morning, even though insulin...
In women with gestational diabetes, eating most carbohydrates in the morning instead of later in the day does not change total daily calories, carbs, or protein, but is linked to consuming about 9.9...
For women with gestational diabetes, eating most of their daily carbohydrates in the morning leads to lower insulin resistance compared to eating most carbohydrates later in the day, as measured by a...
For women with gestational diabetes, consuming about half of daily carbs in the morning lowers average blood sugar levels compared to eating only 10% of carbs in the morning, but it also causes...
In adults with cardiometabolic risk, eating canola oil or coconut oil does not change memory performance in the hours after eating, suggesting that the type of fat consumed acutely does not impact...
In adults with metabolic risk, low-fat meals contain more fiber and lead to less hunger than high-fat meals, even though they have more carbs—suggesting fiber may help reduce hunger more than fat or...
In people with cardiometabolic risk, eating a meal with 50 grams of fat leads to a greater increase in the satiety hormone peptide YY after eating than eating a meal with 25 grams of fat, suggesting...
When adults with cardiometabolic risk eat the same amount of canola oil versus coconut oil, canola oil leads to a larger decrease in ghrelin, a hormone involved in hunger regulation.
For adults with cardiometabolic risk factors, eating a meal with 50 grams of fat leads to lower attention after eating and greater feelings of hunger compared to eating a meal with 25 grams of fat,...
Fat cells store about three times more free fatty acids after a meal than during fasting, showing that eating triggers fat storage far more than insulin alone can.
In human fat tissue, neither insulin nor niacin strongly triggers the ERK1/2 signaling pathway under the conditions studied, indicating that this pathway likely does not play a major role in how free...
In thigh fat, higher levels of two specific enzymes—DGAT and ACS—are linked to greater storage of free fatty acids, meaning these enzymes help determine how much fat gets stored there, regardless of...
When fat breakdown is reduced, women store similar amounts of free fatty acids in belly and thigh fat, but men store more in belly fat than in thigh fat, showing that sex influences where fat is...
When insulin and niacin reduce fat breakdown to the same degree in healthy individuals, neither causes a greater increase in fat storage under the skin than the other, suggesting that insulin does...
In adults with type 2 diabetes, eating a diet lower in carbohydrates and higher in protein is associated with higher reported feelings of fullness, increasing subjective satiety by 18% and peak...
In adults with type 2 diabetes, eating a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein leads to a 235% increase in glucagon release after meals and slows stomach emptying by 15 minutes, which is...
In adults with type 2 diabetes, eating a diet lower in carbohydrates and higher in protein lowers specific markers of insulin production that are linked to pancreatic stress, suggesting the pancreas...
In adults with type 2 diabetes, eating a diet lower in carbohydrates and higher in protein leads to measurable improvements in how the pancreas releases insulin in response to meals, including more...
In adults with type 2 diabetes, eating a diet with less carbohydrate and more protein for six weeks leads to lower blood glucose levels after meals and throughout the day, even without losing weight.
Swapping regular pasta for a version lower in starch and higher in fiber lowers blood sugar after eating, even when the total amount of carbohydrates stays the same, suggesting the type of...
Eating pasta made with low starch and high fiber lowers blood sugar after meals, and this effect occurs in people with and without type 2 diabetes.