Introduction Here’s an interesting tidbit on the placebo effect from New Scientist – a great website full of info of great nerditude: Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. [...]
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01/25/12 UPDATE: Nearly 3 years of experimentation and here’s my summary: My Last Post on Nicotine. It’s been about 13 days since I started the nicotine experiment, using Commit lozenges in an attempt to help me lose weight. There is nothing on the Internet I could find that talked about this – except to say: ‘don’t [...]
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There’s a reason this blog is called ‘Low Carb Confidential’: The ‘low carb’ part being because I follow a diet based off of the Atkins approach The ‘Confidential’ part because sometimes…I feel a little weird writing some of the things I write I feel a little weird about this post because I’ve started experimenting with [...]
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A few months back I posted 2 surveys on the Irvingia Field Reports page for anyone so inclined to fill out their expriences with Irvingia. There’s over 500 postings describing reader’s experiences – worthwhile reading, though it does meander a bit – certainly excusable given the medium and the complexity of weight loss. I also [...]
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Note: I am totally disgusted with trying to write this post coherently, and I don’t have time to do a rewrite, so I’m shamelessly posting this because I feel that there might be some worth to be found in this ramble – my apologies to the English language, as well as every English Composition teacher [...]
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I thought this an interesting post from Jonny Bowden: http://www.jonnybowden.com/2009/03/cut-calories-improve-memory.html Especially because memory can be an issue for me. Also, since I’ve been buckling down on the low carbing, by appetite has gone through the floor – to the point where I find myself making myself eat. What if there was an added benefit to [...]
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