A study came out yesterday showing that an Atkins diet is better for weight loss, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar control. Let’s take a look.
So first, some good points:
It was a 2-year trial, meaning no one can say “well, it works well in the short-term, but…”. I suppose they can still say it [...]
I’ve closed the poll from last week regarding the types of diets followed here. Out of 232 votes, the results are:
Low-Carb non-Strict Paleo - 38 votes (16%)
General Low-carb - 37 votes (16%)
Low-Carb Strict Paleo - 35 votes (15%)
Low Carb no grains - 25 votes (11%)
Paleo + Dairy/Grains - 18 votes (8%)
Paleo + Dairy - [...]
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A reader named Bob (Thanks Bob!) sent me the following link: My Big Fat Diet.
In Alert Bay, Canada, there is a community of Namgis First Nation aborigines suffering from high rates of obesity and the accompanying complications. Dr. Wortman has taken a group of these aboriginals and put them on a [...]
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I was sent a link to this article via my Contact Form, so I thought I’d give my thoughts on it: Diet Overkill: 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets. There are 25 of them, so I’m not going to go through every one, but let’s take a look at what Ms. [...]
So I’m late to the party, but it took a long time to get through the request list at the library. I finally got a hold of Gary Taubes excellent book Good Calories, Bad Calories and went through it. My reaction is that this could be the book that turns things around in [...]
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This important story hit the news yesterday. Here’s the PubMed abstract. Some other folks have already tackled this one, from Chris at Conditioning Research to Regina Wilshire at Weight of the Evidence to Jimmy Moore at Livin’ La Vida Low Carb. But getting big news out can’t be overdone, so I’ll take [...]
Friday, I posted my Letter to Dr. Bryant Stamford regarding his two fallacious articles in my local paper. He responded as follows:
HI, Scott…
thanks so much for the detailed note.
there is the misconception that in some way i’m defending simple sugar products — refined sugar.
i’m not. i think, andi believe the research literature will agree, [...]
In my local newspaper yesterday, I caught a glimpse of an article in a section that I typically avoid because it’s typically nonsense, the Health and Fitness section. Had I not read this article, I could’ve saved myself a good deal of time, but that wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun. The [...]
Here’s an article from yesterday’s USA Today about diabetes. The premise is that, as my title says, diabetes is hitting kids younger these days. Type II Diabetes was once called “Adult Onset Diabetes” because it took much longer for the body to accumulate the necessary body fat and insulin resistance to be diabetic. [...]
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EurekAlert sent this one across the news wire today: A low-carb diet may stunt prostate tumor growth.
The researchers compared tumor growth in 75 mice that were eating either a low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat but high-carbohydrate diet, or a Western diet, high in fat and carbohydrates.
The mice that ate a low-carbohydrate diet had the longest survival [...]
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