Thank You, Anthony Bourdain: It’s About the Food

Posted on January 7, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

I am an idiot. I only have a slight edge over some other idiots in that I am open to discovering that I am an idiot, so that I might actually learn something new, or discover, sometimes to my horror, how something I thought I knew was so blindingly wrong. For the past month, I [...]

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MiO Drink Mix (sorry -’Water Enhancer’) – A Replacement for the Sodastream Soda Mixes?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

  I have already stated – somewhere – that as part of my 2012 resolutions I was going to try to ditch the drink mixes. the reason I’m writing about MiO, however, is because my resolutions are not necessarily your resolutions, and I thought you’d appreciate an honest review. Prior to going on vacation, I [...]

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Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science

Posted on November 7, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Is the mainstream media starting to take notice? This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur. I think that while the entire article is worthy of a [...]

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The Feeder and the Fed: Losing Weight and Cheating Without Cheating

Posted on September 18, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

I have been losing weight as of late – and am wondering why. In particular, I’m wondering this because of my thinking about writing a book on the topic of weight loss. One thing I’d like to avoid is creating another me-too book that is more of the same. Diet books have been done to [...]

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Food Paranoia

Posted on July 17, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

You know how you sometimes know things but really don’t know them? I had come across this article in the New York Daily News about veggie burgers. Veggie burgers are looked upon by many as superior replacement for the much-maligned hamburger made from ground up cows. Leaving out the fact that cows are considered a [...]

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Fake Fat Makes You Fat – Stuns Researchers – Low Carbers Say ‘Meh’

Posted on June 23, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

The gist of this story about Olsetra, the fake fat that they sometime use in chips to lower the calorie count, shows that rats that eat the stuff not only eat more calories, but eat more calories even after they stop eating it. The writer of the story appears to be stunned, and writes the [...]

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Do You Know What Your Veggie Burgers are Made From…Really?

Posted on June 17, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Let me start by mentioning that I don’t know if this is for real. I hope not. The video above links to a story on a Japanese researcher who is perfecting a process of making artificial meat from human feces. (Long pause here to let that sink in…OK…ready to go on?) While there’s a lot [...]

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Like Your Meat-Glued Steak Rare? Not So Fast…

Posted on May 11, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

(A quick update for anyone who follows my personal weight loss story – I’m maintaining my weight loss at about 220 from my high of 237 from the fall of last year. There. Now you know.) You learn something new every day. These days, however, it seems what you learn is a bummer. Next up [...]

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Eulogy for a Bread

Posted on December 27, 2010 by lowcarbconfidential

This is a continuation on my last post about chemicals in our foods. A lot of readers here don’t want ‘em. I don’t want ‘em. And it’s easy to demonize the companies that make products, think these people are soulless bastards, and hope we all die an early death eating their poisons. While I don’t [...]

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Why Are There So Many Chemicals in your Food? Because You Want Them

Posted on November 20, 2010 by lowcarbconfidential

I’ve been on a kick as of late to try to bring more ‘real food’ into my and my family’s lives. When I say real food, I mean food that has not been processed to death, which means more primary ingredients and more cooking. What’s interesting about this is how hard it is to find [...]

Filed under: Fake Foods, Food, Food Additives, health, Research | 7 Comments »

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