Any vids by Butter Bob are easy to follow and fun.

I like the Be A Loser vids on YouTube.

The host is down to earth and entertaining but very informative. Keto and IF oriented. .

Here's a recent video by low-carb researcher and author Jeff Volek (Prof, OSU; co-founder, Virta), who has been doing research on low-carb diets for over 2 decades. He's a stick-to-the-facts speaker, no miracles and nothing to sell (other than knowledge).

THE POWER OF KETOGENIC DIETS TO REVERSE TYPE 2 DIABETES
https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-43
Contains links to podcast, research, and background info.

How Not to Die:
Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by
Michael Greger MD, 2015

He covers how to eat to prevent/reverse most all lifestyle diseases. While he thinks like many doctors of his era about saturated fats and cholesterol I am learning so much because he has my views on living and enjoying life well beyond the current life expectancy range.

His grandmother that was given weeks to live due to heart disease at age 65 lived to be 96 after she changed her diet.

There are 2.115 reviews on Amazon. My new hard bound copy was only $16.79 At this point I call it a great buy with a ton of references.

RalfLott wrote: »

Here's a recent video by low-carb researcher and author Jeff Volek (Prof, OSU; co-founder, Virta), who has been doing research on low-carb diets for over 2 decades. He's a stick-to-the-facts speaker, no miracles and nothing to sell (other than knowledge).

THE POWER OF KETOGENIC DIETS TO REVERSE TYPE 2 DIABETES
https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-43
Contains links to podcast, research, and background info.

I regularly listen to this podcast. There are several good ones you may be interested in. There is even one from last year talking to a lady who was one of the original NASA scientists who thinks keto is one option to reduce negative physiological effects of zero gravity.

low carb diet and cancer video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot96y5-D_K0

RalfLott wrote: »

Here's an entertaining article by Michael Eades on the Framingham Follies - the lack of any correlation between the subjects' diets and serum cholesterol. Go figure.

https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2006/09/26/framingham-follies/

This is very helpful as I read How to Not Die which is saying eat plant only diet or die in my view.

There is a guy with a YouTube channel and he has tons of great info and offers personal coaching on his website. I think it's called primal edge on YouTube. He is blonde and does all of his videos shirtless (*bonus). I learn so much there. Jimmy Moore podcasts, healthful pursuit podcast/YouTube and Jason Fung's audiobook "the obesity code" are awesome resources as well!

Here is a relatively-accessible item from Hyperlipid, a technical nutrition blog with a lot of interesting-looking posts:
Ketones: Should idiots be allowed to write the methods section of any "scientific" paper?

Quote: "From the philosophical point of view I expect the methods section of a paper to allow me to duplicate a given research protocol. All I am told in this case is that the ketogenic diet is 60% fat, 20% carbs and 20% protein and that it was made by Research Diet, Inc. New Brunswick, NJ. That's it. Now, until RD are bought out by some other multinational company, they have a website and this tells me that they supply only one ketogenic diet, D12336, which is 11% protein 89% fat and zero carbohydrate, pretty much what you need to get a rodent in to mild ketosis. So this research group are using a custom diet, what goes in to it is anyone's guess.

"My guess is medium chain triglycerides. I don't think you can get a mouse in to ketosis with protein at 20% of calories and carbohydrate at 20%. You'd have trouble getting a human in to ketosis with this, unless you used MCTs.

"This is important because I'm interested in teasing out whether there is any point in the enormous effort and endless tedium of eating a low carbohydrate driven ketogenic diet with thyroid deficiency, lethargy, brain fog, glucose deficiency and auto immune disease predisposition as routine sequelae, not to mention the constipation and halitosis (is this me?), when merely popping down to my local Caribbean corner store for a bottle of coconut oil might do the job equally well.

What goes in to the diet matters. Coconut oil is not safflower oil, is not butter. What goes in to the methods matters. Research must be replicable."

@baconslave

canadjineh wrote: »

Not necessarily a list of easy reads, but very appealing to certain rabbit hole-ers among us: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2017/08/05/textbooks/

He gives good reasons for liking these books, and it sure would be nice to feel like I had enough time, money, and energy left in this lifetime to read and digest these babies. But if I did.....

you had me at blonde and topless...

I'm listening to Gary Taubes "The Case Against Sugar". The history of the increase in sugar amazed me. And the whole hooking up with the tobacco industry? Holy hell they're shady effers. I'm not a conspiracy theorist (and not saying he is) but it's really interesting how everyone fights so hard to make sugar out to be the amazing good guy that it isn't. Especially on other reading areas.

It's a short listen (about 12 hours) so I recommend it if you like to listen to books while working.

Anything that includes the following people are generally my interests:
Lyle McDonald
Alan Aragon
Chris Masterjohn
Danny Lennon
Bill Lagakos
Robb Wolf
Stephan Guyenet

tcunbeliever wrote: »

If you are ok with dry scientific stuff and can find it, took me a decade to get a copy - The History of a Crime Against the Food Law by Harvey Wiley. It's not a diet book, but a very good study regarding food preservatives that were tested and found to be harmful as well as a very disturbing look at how the food industry managed to get them approved as safe for human consumption despite the actual evidence. The events of the book were pre-FDA, but the process is still basically the same, so no wonder the government issues food recommendations that are not really healthy because it clearly never was about real science.

That's a new one - thanks for the ref!