Dr Chris Barclay

Shop Cook Dine and the joys of using real food as your medicine.

High carb Asian food is Type-2 Diabetes risk

Bread, rice and potatoes. The BBC reporter Sima Kotecha and the filmmaker Gurinder Chadha teamed up to highlight two problems

…but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. Does being overweight cause diabetes? Is

Cause, Problem, Effect. Here is a re-working of a flow chart I posted late 2018. It began as a thought

A friend of mine sent me a link to this little ditty performed by the …. hmmmm…. raconteur, writer, ex-MP,

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated

If you want to lose weight, it’s all about the CICO – Calories In Calories Out: or is it? Calorie

Ever wondered why modern chickens are egg-laying machines? Why, biologically, would a creature deliberately lay (mostly infertile) eggs loaded with

Type-2 DiabetesType-2 Diabetes Mellitus is an almost totally preventable, avoidable, and, early on, for some a potentially curable condition. The

A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (the world’s premier medical publication) has looked at how genetics may

Herschel Island, The Yukon. 1906: Unlike the rest of his colleagues, the explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefánsson decided to walk