My Last Post on Nicotine Lozenges as a Weight Loss Device

Posted on January 25, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

On Christmas Day, 2011, I ran out of nicotine lozenges. That was it. It’s over. A very expensive and annoying addiction to nicotine lozenges, started nearly 3 years ago when I got this hare-brained idea that: if people who stop smoking gain weight because they don’t have nicotine, can people lose weight if they take [...]

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Great News, America! It Appears We Can’t Possibly Get Fatter Than We Are

Posted on January 18, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

The Wall Street Journal reported that, for some reason, America’s rising obesity rate stopped rising in 2003. Actually, it’s not just the good ‘ol USA that this is happening in, but the entire world. Researchers don’t know why, exactly, so they trot this out – at least this is the summary from the reporter: The [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: cooking, dessert, diet, Fake Foods, Food, Food Additives, Food Monotony, general health, Goals, health, Hunger, Kitchen Experiments, low carb, Organic, Personal Journal, recipe, Research, Reviews, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Are Vitamins and Supplements Worth it?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

One of the paradoxes in a consumer society like ours, is that to lose weight, to remove something, we are typically instructed to do so by consuming something else. It’s just how we’re taught: got a problem? Buy something to fix it. A lot of folks think that they can fix their crappy diet by popping [...]

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My Last Post on Irvingia

Posted on December 30, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

If you have the misfortune of reading this blog with any regularity, you will have noticed that I am a somewhat ‘restless’ individual, and try numerous self-experiments surrounding nutrition, health, and weight loss. Quite possibly, one of the most pointless experiments I chronicled on this site brings me a good portion of my traffic: Irvingia. [...]

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Does Cinnamon Reduce Blood Glucose Levels? I Try it Out

Posted on November 14, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have a family history of diabetes that I have been able to hold at bay – I think – through my low carb diet. My siblings both got rather severe cases in their early 40s, while I have been able to keep the number relatively low in comparison. [...]

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Food Rules – A Book by Michael Pollan

Posted on November 9, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Being on a diet for over 8 years – essentially the same diet for 8 years – gives one a different perspective on dieting than most folks. I’ve come to reject a lot of the thinking surrounding the popular notion of diets, and am currently trying to sort out just how am I different from [...]

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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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Gooberol – Scientists Discover New Compound in Peanuts for Losing Weight

Posted on October 29, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

New research out of the University of Switzerland has discovered a compound that forms when peanuts are boiled increases metabolic activity and leads to weight loss. As boiled peanuts are frequently eaten in Asian cultures, it is believed that the as-yet-unnamed compound, jokingly referred to as ‘gooberol’ by one British researcher, explains why there is [...]

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2 Reasons Why Vitamins Might Be Bad For You That Might Not Be What You Think

Posted on October 14, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

You might have read the story that states vitamins do nothing – in fact, they might reduce lifespan – at least in the older woman in the study. Here’s one link to the story – it’s not hard to find more. The new reports speculated on the doses of some of the vitamins being too [...]

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