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New Zealand warns against low carb, paleo, and IF
New Zealand, the land of sheep, wants you to eat margarine, vegetable oil, and healthy carbs. http://profgrant.com/2016/02/03/new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-specifically-warn-against-low-carb-paleo-and-intermittent-fasting/
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Kendrick: What Causes Heart Attacks?
You guys may know Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. He basically doesn't believe cholesterol has anything to do with heart disease. I, for one, have no interest in hearing what isn't causative. I want to know what IS causative. Finally, he's going to tell us. http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/ Ladies and gentlemen, it took me thirty years.
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We need more words for HUNGER
Supposedly the Eskimos have a bunch of words for "snow." (Or maybe not.) We are the Eskimos of hunger. Seems like our vocabulary is a little weak. Can we expand it? We've got famished, starving, hungry, and peckish. Intensity. Hangry. At least somebody put some emotion into it. Satiated. Full. Cravings. We need to…
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Free book: The Cholesterol Myths
I really enjoyed this one: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/486704 The book has been around for a while, so this might be old news. The author is a retired MD: http://www.ravnskov.nu/uffe/ Edit: here's a nice endorsement by Mike Eades: https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/09/18/cholesterol-myths/ The Cholesterol Myths…
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What does your favorite blogger eat?
I saw the Abel James thread and thought it might be interesting to see what these bloggers eat themselves. Who's your favorite blogger, and what do they eat? Mine has gotta be Petro "Peter" Dobromylskyj: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ He's more into biochem research as it pertains to metabolic mechanisms, so he…
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Ketones, Butter, and Niacin
Late night reading: Anti-inflammatory effects of the hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 2 (PDF) Backstory: I went low-carb to reduce TG and increase HDL. Before I tried low-carb, I tried Niacin (Vit B3). It worked pretty well -- reduced TG and increased HDL, but it had a couple side-effects: flushing and increased fasting…
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Low carb doc says maybe it's not the carbs!
I first tried low-carb in 2004, and my guide was Protein Power by Dr Mike Eades. It turns out he's been reading my favorite blog: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ And this is what he now concludes based on some fundamental biochemistry:…
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Chocolate vs Magnesium
I never thought it would happen, but I think I'm losing interest in dark chocolate. I started taking 400mg/d of Mg Citrate a month or so ago. Could it be Mg saturation that's causing a change in cravings? Anybody else experience this?
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For your kid's science fair
See how long you can hold your breath. Now go on a ketogenic diet, and measure your breath-holding ability again after a few weeks. A bit of the O2/CO2/ATP math is here: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2016/01/not-really-much-about-swimming.html
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Kindle Freebie: What is Fat For?
I love freebies. I haven't finished this one, but I found the introduction surprisingly fresh and compelling. What Is Fat For?: Re-Thinking Obesity Science From the blurb: Obesity science has reached a crossroads: The carbohydrate hypothesis is poised to overtake “calories in, calories out” as the predominant understanding…
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A Fresh Look at the Glycemic Index
I've seen this study on a few blogs now, so it might be of interest here. Algorithm Creates Diets That Work for You And the study: Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses In a nut shell, they found a lot of variation in glycemic response. But they found that they could predict that response based on…
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Book Report: The Fat Switch
I think it was @Foamroller who mentioned this guy: Richard Johnson He's written a couple books, including this one: The Fat Switch Many of you have read books by Gary Taubes. Taubes came up with an alternative hypothesis on the cause of the obesity epidemic: insulin. Johnson has a different alternative theory: fructose and…
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Yet Another VAP (cholesterol inside!)
VAP = Vertical Auto Profile. It gives you more insight into your lipid profile than the standard test. I just got my 3rd results, and the 2nd on low carb. (For biochem geeks, they use gel electrophoresis to do the test.) My first results were in 2009, 5 years before low carb. Not pretty. HDL=37, TG=302, LDL=115, TC=224,…
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1971 low-carb vs very-low-carb study
There are very few studies I've found that compare low-carb to very-low-carb diets, and all that I found show essentially no difference in weight loss. Until now! Well, sort of. This 1971 study compared 104g, 60g, and 30g/d carbs over 9 weeks (with a 1-week vacation break). Same calories and same protein. Only fat was…
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Updated Groups
As you may have noticed from the glitches this morning, MFP rolled out an update to the groups software. Bookmarks seem to work now! No idea what else has changed, but the formatting looks a bit different.
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I'm embarrassed by ...
I'm embarrassed by this new way of life. There I said it. I went to the store today. Some of my favorite dark chocolate with almonds was on sale, so I stocked up. At the register, the petite clerk said "is that your favorite?" me: I like it, and it's on sale, so I'm stocking up. she: Oh, I've never tried it. Then she takes…
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Fat Calipers
Has anybody tried these things? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B2MIDDQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage You take skin-fold measurements at three locations, add them together, and then look up your body fat % in a table. Mine came out to 19%, which matches what my bioelectric impedance scale has been…
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Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO
I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed yet. It's hitting all the media outlets. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said, placing cured…
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Eat Meat and Stop Jogging
I think FIT_Goat mentioned this book not too long ago. It's currently a free kindle book (no idea for how long): http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Meat-And-Stop-Jogging-ebook/dp/B00JBNPV06/ref=zg_bs_156430011_f_34
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The Rice Diet (94% carbs)
I've always said that the debate rages on about low-fat vs low-carb because both sides are right. I figured it was a matter of genetics. I may have been wrong about that. Maybe a low-fat diet will work for just about anybody....…
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Top sources of carbs
I was curious about the top sources of carbs in the Standard American Diet, and also which of those low-carbers eat when they fall off the wagon. Here it is for kids: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/102/4/913.short* yeast bread * soft drinks/sodas * milk * ready-to-eat cereal * cakes/cookies/quick…
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Bloating
I had a distended belly Friday morning. I found it odd since the last meal I had eaten was all meat. I spent a little time googling around this morning to get a better understanding of what causes bloating. Wow! It turns out to be one of those complicated medical mysteries. :) One thing they've found is that it is almost…
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Free Book: Bioactive Neutraceuticals
This is a $200 textbook that one of the authors uploaded to academia.edu (a pretty cool site I just discovered): https://www.academia.edu/14901172/Bioactive_Nutraceuticals_and_Food_Supplements_in_Neurological_and_Brain_Disease You can read it online, or you can download it as a PDF if you register and jump through a bunch…
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Dad, Help Me Be Healthy
Yikes. I didn't expect to hear that last night. "Dad, help me be healthy. But I don't want a kidney stone! Mom, what do you say? Let's both be healthy!" She is 12. Her self-image is becoming VERY important. So here's the family dynamic. Mother and daughter are joined at the hip. Dad is kept around mostly for entertainment…
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The Keto Song
Stolen from Biochemists' Song Book REGULATION OF KETOGENESIS (Sung to the tune of “Clementine”) In starvation, diabetes, sugar levels under strain You need fuel to keep going saving glucose for your brain Ketone bodies, Ketone bodies, both acetoacetate And its partner on reduction, 3-hydroxybutyrate. Glucagon’s up, with…
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Android Bug Affecting Groups
Since there's a thread about some missing members, I though I should mention that there appears to be a bug that affects people who use their android phone to view the groups. It seems to be related to Chrome, and that's the default browser used by the Android MFP app. The result is that no group threads show up. If you…
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Imagine Maintenance
@nicintime brought up a profound point in another thread. He said something to the effect that he originally hoped to get skinny so he could eat more, like all those other skinny people who can eat whatever they like. The profound part was his realization that that might not be a good long-term strategy, and that he now…
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My Doc was Amazed!
I had my check-up recently. I like my primary care doc, but he's not a fan of low carb. He is a smart guy, though. He got his MD from Yale and loves to discuss pathophysiological theories, including stuff like the latest microbiome findings. Anyway, I told him about my dietary changes, and he was pretty impressed with the…
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What are you reading?
I'm currently reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. I thought it would be an evolutionary history based on archaeological evidence. He does some of that, but there's always a LOT of opinion in the book, which makes it a fun read. For example, he thinks the invention of agriculture was a major mistake. There are…
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Low-Carb Celebrity Interview
I just saw this retweeted by Dr. Michael Eades. How did I miss this? http://zerocarbzen.com/2015/08/11/zero-carb-interview-kevin-fenderson/
