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Are carbohydrates fattening?
Are carbohydrates really fattening? This one question has generated much acrimonious debate over the years. Some believe all that matters is the caloric content of food while others (yours truly, for...
View ArticleEight blogs I always read
Along with my daily slog through the medical literature, I read a lot of blogs as well. I pretty much keep up with all the low-carb blogs most of you are familiar with, but I also religiously read a...
View ArticleHelp for low-carb dieters
Its that time of year again. The start of the new year. The time many people either commit or recommit to their weight loss and health improvement vows. To help, I went through all my almost nine...
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How to get rid of gallstones without surgery
One of the first patients I saw as a medical student was a nice lady, who presented to the university hospital outpatient clinic with colicky, cramping abdominal pain. She described the pain as...
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The Big Fat Surprise
This review of The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz is the most difficult and demanding I have ever written. It is demanding for a couple of reasons. First, it is psychologically demanding on me...
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Protein Power 2.0?
It is difficult for me to believe, but Protein Power is coming up on being 20 years old. It was written in 1995 and published in January of 1996. There has been some talk between our agent and the...
View ArticleLow carb diet: Fat or fiction
Last year I put up a couple of posts of Australian TV shows kicking sand in the face of mainstream nutritional and medical practices. The first debunked the idea that saturated fat and cholesterol...
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Dr. Dean Ornish blasts high-protein diets
Dr. Dean Ornish strikes again with an editorial lambasting what he calls high-protein diets in todays New York Times. I got an email first thing this morning from a South African journalist...
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Mitochondria rejuvenating diet the nutritional ‘experts’ bash
The subtitle of this post could just as easily have been: Feed your mitochondria right. The two videos below pretty much tell the whole sad tale of doctors and nutrition. Taken together, they confirm...
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In case you missed out last time…
I just got word that there will be another sale tomorrow of a bunch of low-carb books on Kindle for a mere three bucks apiece. Last time a sale like this came around, I didnt find out about it and...
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