John Yudkin’s Low-Carbohydrate Diet

I’ve been reading chapters of Good Calories, Bad Calories again, and I was finally moved to look for Dr. Yudkin’s books on Amazon. His books Pure White and Deadly and Sweet and Dangerous cost way too much, but I did buy a copy of Eat Well, Slim Well.

Normally, I love diet books [...]

American Children Moving Towards “Constant Eating”

Towards? Children? We’re all doing it!

“This raises the question of whether the physiological basis for eating is becoming deregulated, as our children are moving toward constant eating.”

This is one of those news bits for the day. I heard it on KMOX while I was still in bed – I’m sure it will be [...]

Follow Up On Saturated Fats

One of the blogs I read regularly has a nice summary of studies related to saturated fat and health.

You’ll find it here: The Dirty Little Secret Of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

Component Analysis

I’ve been working my way through a lecture called Sugar: The Bitter Truth, and Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study came up. The discussion at hand was about the fact that the conclusions drawn were clearly incorrect and that its data could not easily easily be subjected to regression analysis because it pre-dates computers. This doesn’t [...]