“We are brainwashed against carbs. But it is the wrong message" -- Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, coauthor of The Carb Lovers Diet and senior food and nutrition editor of Health Magazine, quoted in Diet Review: The Carb Lovers Diet and Resistant Starch Foods. WebMD. Before I discuss this brainwashing claim, let me explain the context. Most mornings, I get up early, brew coffee, eat breakfast and turn on the TV to catch the local news and weather. The best local TV news happens to be on an … [Read more...]
A typical day in my life after carbs
Following up on my post "What is a low carb diet?" I'm presenting here a typical day of low carbing. The day was a Saturday. Breakfast (6:30 a.m.) Most days, I'm an early riser. The sun comes up, and I'm right there with it. no-filler salmon patty (leftover) two eggs scrambled with butter two mugs of coffee, each with two teaspoons of half-and-half one multi-vitamin for men Morning Snack (10:00 a.m.) Having this mid-morning snack was a-typical. Often I make it to lunch … [Read more...]
Help fight the good fight against dietary dogma and bad science
In a recent article published in Diabetes Health, Hope Warshaw, a nutrition/diabetes consultant and author, calls the idea of controlling type-2 diabetes with a low-carbohydrate diet an "old dogma" that needs to give way to a "new reality." Warshaw's statement ignited a fire-storm of opinion among diabetics and low-carb dieters, including vehement responses from bloggers Dana Carpender, Jimmy Moore, and Tom Naughton. (No one does vehement like Naughton, who wrote two brilliant posts about the … [Read more...]
Progress report 7-3-11
On May 7, I set a weight goal of 215 pounds by Labor Day 2011. At that time, I weighed around 241 pounds. Yesterday, I weighed in at 227.6 pounds. So in the past two months I have lost 13.4 pounds on my low-carb way of eating. The pace has slowed. In the first two months of low-carb eating, I lost about 19 pounds. Nevertheless, I am on schedule to meet my Labor Day weight goal, perhaps with time/ pounds to spare. Frankly, weight loss is a secondary issue for me. More important is … [Read more...]
The Tech Guy and low-carb eating
I first heard about low-carb way of eating and the work of Gary Taubes from an unlikely source: Leo Laporte, a.k.a The Tech Guy. Leo lives on the West Coast. Every Saturday and Sunday, he does his Tech Guy radio broadcast; the rest of the week, he records and live-streams tech-oriented net-casts from his studio in Petaluma, California. His network is called TWiT, which stands for "This Week in Technology," the name of his flagship program. I became a fan of Leo when he was one of the … [Read more...]
The reason low-carb diets work
You look trustworthy, so I’ll let you in on something. I’m going to tell you the secret of how a low-carb diet helps a person lose weight. But first a word from our sponsor . . . Oh, wait -- we don’t have a sponsor. I keep thinking I ought to monetize the blog, put up a few discrete blinking ads for Carb-Free Pudding or Miracle Weight-Loss Body Lotion (in five delicious flavors!), or at least add links to my books on Amazon.com (when I get them written), but I have … [Read more...]
Tip-toeing toward the truth
The big long-term weight gain study that the Harvard School of Public Health announced yesterday was officially published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men); it has gotten widespread press attention. My first encounter with it was on ABC World News. As I wrote last night, the ABC team, led by Dr. Richard Besser, focused on carbohydrates as the main factor in weight gain, labeling various forms of potatoes … [Read more...]
The ups and downs of weighing in
In any endeavor, we want confirmation of our success. It's nice if the confirmation comes with a plaque and some folding money, but at the least it needs to be objective. We want something we can show people, something to point to, something more substantial than a feeling of satisfaction. This explains why mobile phones have cameras in them. If you are lucky enough to achieve something -- and let's face it, luck is the major factor -- you can whip out your smart-phone, snap a photo and send … [Read more...]
Tips for eating out low-carb
Just about every low-carb cookbook, carb-count guide, diet plan and blog has advice on eating out while limiting your carbohydrate intake. For instance, over at About.com, Laura Dolson maintains an extensive and helpful guide on Low-Carb Fast Food. And blogger and low-carb cookbook author Dana Carpender reviewed the Burger King Angry Burger, which she encountered while trying to buy a bottle of dark rum in southern Illinois on a Sunday. She disliked the burger, and didn't get the rum, either. … [Read more...]
Remembering my dad
My father was a Flint guy, Great Depression edition – blue-collar even when he was in management, hands-on, patriotic, optimistic, and altogether typical of his generation. As a young man, he played baseball, drank beer, smoked whatever cigarettes he could afford, and helped save the world for democracy. Like his father and his only brother, Dad was an autoworker. All three men worked for Buick, a General Motors division that at its peak employed nearly 30,000 people in Flint, Michigan. Buicks … [Read more...]
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