Intermittency: a dietary change-of-pace Low Carb Nugget 65 When it comes to diet, "intermittency" means making frequent, significant changes in how much you eat. You need to throw your body a dietary change up, and not let it adjust to a single continuous level of intake. (Programming note: I won't be releasing an episode of this podcast on Saturday, October 7th. Just two nuggets this week.) … [Read more...]
Home improvements
Links to Updated and Refurbished Posts "Life After Carbs" is six years old, which is 120 in Internet years. At such an advanced age, the site needed some tender-loving-care, so I put on the tool-belt and hardhat and went to work. I changed the look and organization of the homepage, and perhaps more importantly, reviewed and revised a whole bunch of posts and pages that told the story of my continuing low-carb life-style. In many cases, a good post had gotten buried and forgotten (even by me). … [Read more...]
Resources page added
On the off-chance that low-carb newbies are finding their way to this blog (against all logic given how far down it is on the low-carb blogging food-chain), I thought I should create a Resources page. You will see the link for the Resources page in the top-menu. In truth, the Resources page can be useful to anyone, not just newbies. If nothing else, it gives some of my main sources (with an emphasis on those available on the Web). I am not intending the listings to be comprehensive, but … [Read more...]
Petition to end war on fat
It's time to end the war on fat. Dietary fat, that is, not the fat around our waistlines. That's the message of an online petition at SignOn.org: To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives The decades long war against dietary fat must come to an end. Starting with the McGovern Commission in 1977, we have been told that a healthy diet is low in fat and high in carbohydrates. Despite a lack of scientific evidence to support these claims, the message that fat is "bad" … [Read more...]