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Hello Proteins, Goodbye Carbs

February 28th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Wellness

I got my New York driver’s license recently and was horrified. Who was that fat guy in the license photo? Since moving to Upstate New York from D.C., I’ve worked hard getting our small farm together. But all the physical toil hasn’t kept me slim. I’m growing right out of my jeans. Somewhere in the […]

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L.A. Times Finally Says It: Carbs, not Fat, Are the Problem

December 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · food news

Are the mainstream media finally coming around to the idea that our national obsession with fat was a bad idea? In a ground-breaking article, the Los Angeles Times this week embraces the growing scientific view that the chief cause of our nation’s obesity and other dietary ills isn’t fat, as we’ve been told for the […]

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Is Meat Eating Hazardous to Your Health?

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · food news

I’m not a scientist or a statistician, but I was skeptical when Dean Ornish, who’s been pushing his low-fat diets for years, and now poses as medical editor for the Huffington Post, wrote that a recent long-term study confirmed that people who ate a high-protein, low-carb diet tended to die sooner than those who focused more on […]

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