Posts Tagged ‘Low Carb’
A little knowledge goes a long way
Posted on July, 9 at 10:06 am | Filed Under Health, Low Carb
To correcting the crazy media angle that always vilifies saturated fat and gives carbs and sugar a free pass. For some reality based critique of ABCs latest anti fat screed, check out Michael R. Eades M.D.
FatHead Movie – Extra Footage Excerpts
Posted on May, 13 at 7:00 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Tom Naughton is putting up extra footage from his Fat Head Movie that brings in some good interviews around how animal fat was so demonized … inspite of the science. Good stuff … get it here.
Good Gary Taubes Interview – Science of Low Carb
Posted on March, 6 at 7:34 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Gary Taubes on Getting Your Money’s Worth.
The Low Carb Grocery – Finally a store in Toronto Area
Posted on October, 11 at 7:23 am | Filed Under Low Carb
I don’t have to stuff my suitcase full of CarbQuick anymore! There is now a great Low carb grocery store in the Toronto area (Markham 404 & Steeles area for locals). They have a great selection of Low Carb products and are also connected to some pretty talented bakers because their line of very low [...]
Do Cars Make Us Fat? Probably Not …
Posted on October, 3 at 9:25 am | Filed Under Low Carb
I tried to post a comment at No Impact Man but I think there was a glitch so I’m going to post it here. His post shows an interesting graph that seems to connect the rise in access to vehicle transportation to obesity. On the surface, this makes excellent sense. Most people think that the [...]
Ignore Heart Association – Lose Weight and Improve Heart
Posted on October, 1 at 7:32 am | Filed Under Low Carb
Here is an interesting Youtube video of Sandra Fryhofer, MD. She summarizes a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine that compares a diet based on the Heart Association’s low fat recommendations to the Mediterranean diet and a low carb diet. Of the three, the low carb diet had the best weight loss [...]
Eat Low Carb to reduce waste?
Posted on September, 11 at 9:24 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Of course low carb properly done will reduce your waistline, but I’m talking about household waste. In my move from a refined carbohydrate diet to low carb, I’ve noticed that the amount of waste generated by our household has dropped significantly. In the past we had to purchase 3 additional recycling bins and an extra [...]
UN Wongly Blames Meat Eaters for Global Warming
Posted on September, 11 at 11:05 am | Filed Under Low Carb
There are lots of reasons why someone might choose to eat less meat (like issues with our industrial food supply, poor quality …) but saving the environment isn’t one them in my opinion. So here is what has happened. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said to [...]
Eat Low Carb – Don’t be a lab rat
Posted on August, 26 at 10:59 am | Filed Under Low Carb
I’ve found my road warrior lifestyle quickly packs on the pounds. This is a problem since I still need to fit in a standard (shrinking) airline seat, and so have switched to Low Carb. It turns out that not only does this help me shrink back to normal size, but also gets me out of [...]
Good Low Carb Resources
Posted on June, 18 at 11:48 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Videos Big Fat Lies – Gary Taubes at Stevens Institute The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care – Gary Taubes at Berkley Articles The Soft Science of Dietary Fat – Gary Taubes Science What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? – Gary Taubes New York Times [...]
