The Dangers of Low Carb Diets - from Barilla Pasta

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 here - they are [...]

Tea Eggs

I have been making these for years - I don’t know why I haven’t posted this one yet. When my family and I go to the beach, we always make these because they are so portable. They beat regular hard-boiled eggs because they need no extra flavoring - the flavoring is already in them.
Here’s the [...]

How Big Is Your Carbin’ Footprint?

OK, this time I think I did it.  I Googled it, and NOBODY has used “Carbin’ Footprint” as far as I can tell.  I’m copyrighting it here and now, so if you want to use the term legally, send me an email and we’ll talk.
So anyway, I was thinking about how it’s been over a [...]

The Utter Simplicity Of The Low Carb Shopping Trip

Last night as I was going through the grocery store sale papers in preparation for this week’s shopping trip, it struck me just how simplified my life has become since going low carb. 
One of my favorite things to do is shop.  Whether for food, or electronic gear, or something someone asked me to find a [...]

Nothing is Certain - Of This I am Sure

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” - Donald Rumsfeld
We live in a time where [...]

Postus Nonwriticus (aka Cranius Constipatus)

If you’ve ever heard the expression, “The muse has left me,” you probably heard a writer saying it.  That’s the way I’ve felt the last week or so, and is a crutch of an excuse for neglecting to post anything for many days.  Maybe I needed a break, a vacation of sorts, like LCC’s mental [...]

The Low Carb Alcohol Stall Revisited

When we last left our hero (that’s me), he was at the end of a one month experiment trying to determine to what extent his drinking habit had sabotaged his effort to lose weight after returning to a very low carb regimen.  After abstaining from his routine two or three martinis per evening for four weeks, he’d [...]

“Hey Buddy, Hail Me A Toxicarb, Willya?”

While LCC is outside getting his vitamin D and clearing out the electronic cobwebs, I’ll take a stab at entertaining our visitors who, by their presence, obviously need their fix.  This is a low carb blog, but some people turn up here for a variety of reasons, one of which is to be entertained in some [...]

Mental Detox Week

 The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult - yet also how life-changing - a [...]

Olive Branch Extended In Megamas v. Wegmans

The following doesn’t have a whole lot to do with low carb per se,  but it does regard some things I’ve been posting about recently, so there’s some relevance if you’ve been hanging around the blog lately. 
First off, I’d like to thank my generous host, LCC, for gracefully pointing out that my post tone was taking a [...]