Posted on April 3, 2008 by megamas
I’m always amazed and impressed at the number of people out there in cyberspace whose search engine queries are about what one experiences when starting Atkins or some other carbohydrate-restrictive diet. It usually results in a high number of daily page reads of a post LCC wrote last August. I tend to forget about those strange feelings [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by megamas
I had this thought yesterday as I was sitting in a department meeting watching the secretary chew her gum like a cow strung out on crystal meth.
We’ve been rolling this concept around in the blog that it isn’t just food that stimulates weight gain from the secretion of insulin as a result of sugar in the [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2008 by megamas
Let’s (actually, let me) talk about food for a few minutes. What I’ll be saying is, of course, my own opinion, and not to be taken as a call for anybody to change what they’re doing or how they feel about it. It’s just something to think about.
I’ve read with interest many low carb recipes, [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2008 by megamas
Episode 2: When The Inmates Run The Asylum, Madness Will Be A Virtue
Today, the head of the medical department where I work sent out a company-wide email announcing the latest efforts in the corporate-sponsored “wellness” initiative. Classes in nutrition will be given to employees who wish to participate, and prizes will be awarded to those who [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by megamas
Suddenly, it seemed like the universe was conspiring to keep me from losing weight on low carb (or any diet).
I just finished the last chapter of Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories, and I can only hope there’s a silver lining in the Epilogue, because this chapter on Hunger and Satiety plunked down a couple new possible [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008 by megamas
As I’m in bed this morning waiting for the precise perfect moment to roll out, I happened to dwell on the several ads that I’ve been glancing at in magazines and the newspaper recently. I say recently, but they’re always there, just more so in the beginning of the year, it seems. You’ve seen the ads, [...]
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Posted on February 29, 2008 by megamas
It occurs to me that I’ve reached an impasse of sorts. As I’m learning more each day about the truth of things nutritive, I find I’m having trouble letting go of some of my ingrained notions in practice.
I’d said the biggest barrier to acceptance of the truth regarding carbohydrates and the associated changes in society [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by megamas
I wrote yesterday about the effects of wanting to believe something. But, aren’t I equally guilty of this myself?
Why should I accept the precepts and explanations of any particular author? Plenty of derisive comments were made by respected figures in the health field about Dr. Atkins’ theories and his nutritional approach, yet I chose to [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by megamas
Episode One: “I Want To Believe”
If you’ve ever watched the television series “The X Files,” there’s a good chance you noticed the poster that hung in FBI agent Fox Mulder’s office. It was sort of the motto of the show, or at least Mulder’s motto. Mulder experienced extraordinary events he couldn’t explain, couldn’t prove. Others tried to [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by megamas
So I’ve now gotten to the part about various diets in Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories having finished the chapter on the Conservation of Energy. I’m hoping there’s a loophole out there in the second half of the book because right now it seems like we’re all ultimately doomed to be whatever we [...]
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