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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·Gary Taubes·protein
It’s been a while since I ranted about carbohydrates and our misplaced fear of fat. But there’s been a rip-tide of press lately confirming what some of us already knew: it’s not the fat in our diet that’s making Americans obese, but the way we gorge on carbohydrates, and especially refined carbohydrates like bread and [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·fat·obesity
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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