I stumbled across this link in the New York times that refers to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that came to the conclusion that – hey, maybe saturated fat ain’t that bad for you after all. Read the comments that follow the posting – most react with an almost religious fervor [...]
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The ironic part of any diet is that so much of the focus is on food. For us low carbers, as well as for anyone following any sort of diet regimen, there is an almost all-consuming immersion in selecting, weighing, calculating, supplementing, hydrating, exercising, logging, and analyzing of just about every input and output our [...]
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I’m sure you’ve heard the mantra ‘a calorie is a calorie is a calorie’. It’s used by many who dispute that there might be some sort of ‘metabolic advantage’ to the Atkins diet. Atkins believed that when you restrict carbs and replace with fat, that you could consume more calories and still lose weight. This [...]
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it – Aristotle When all else fails – manipulate the data – T-Shirt I saw in Princeton Hmm…a pasta company thinks that low carb diets are dangerous. Who’da thunk? Here’s the link: http://www.barillaus.com/home/pages/dangers_of_lowcarb_diets.aspx Obviously, no self-interest is involved [...]
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I am sure that most of you have eaten London broil, so this ‘experiment’ is most likely a big ‘duh!’ for most of you, but for me, London broil was a ‘once-in-a-blue-moon’ meal as a kid – and pretty much I haven’t eaten it since. Over the weekend, I stopped on the way home from [...]
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