Publications by authors named "D Hal Unwin"
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- This study examines a new healthcare model in New Zealand that combines a low-carbohydrate diet and health coaching to help manage prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
- Participants reported health benefits like weight loss and increased energy, while also facing challenges such as resistance from some healthcare providers and misconceptions about low-carb diets.
- The model shows promise for improving patient outcomes and reducing the workload on healthcare professionals, though further education and awareness are needed for wider adoption.
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- Pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates, had a significant impact on Mesozoic ecosystems, but their ground movement and terrestrial ecology are not well understood.
- Research shows that pterosaurs had a diverse range of hand and foot structures, similar to modern birds, which indicates they adapted to various non-flying lifestyles, with early species showing traits for climbing and later ones for ground movement.
- The evolution of ground-based locomotion in pterosaurs involved changes in anatomy, allowing them to exploit terrestrial environments and leading to new feeding strategies and larger body sizes across different lineages.
The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is likely to be approaching 38% of the world's population. It is predicted to become worse and is the main cause of morbidity and mortality due to hepatic pathologies. It is particularly worrying that NAFLD is increasingly diagnosed in children and is closely related, among other conditions, to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarbohydrate restriction has gained increasing popularity as an adjunctive nutritional therapy for diabetes management. However, controversy remains regarding the long-term suitability, safety, efficacy and potential superiority of a very low carbohydrate, ketogenic diet compared to current recommended nutritional approaches for diabetes management. Recommendations with respect to a ketogenic diet in clinical practice are often hindered by the lack of established definition, which prevents its capacity to be most appropriately prescribed as a therapeutic option for diabetes.
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