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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'fat'
Making America Fat: It’s Not the Burger, it’s the Bun
July 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments · food news
Tags: carbohydrates·fat·obesity
Is Fat Back?
March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · food news
Even the Washington Post is climbing onto the recent media trend toward a reconsideration of fat. A column in today’s paper says the Atkins diet is making a resurgence, and cites a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that found no significant link between saturated fat and heart disease. A second [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·fat·heart disease
It’s Not the Burgers, Mr. President, It’s the Buns
March 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Wellness
It must have come as a surprise to many that a president as young and vigorous as Barack Obama could be experiencing cholesterol issues, as reported this week. But even more surprising is the misinformation being doled out by the people around him about the likely causes. “Too many burgers,” came the ready explanation. More likely, [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·cholesterol·fat·Obama
Time for a Second Look at Fat?
February 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · food news
A major new study has the mainstream media buzzing with news that saturated fat does not pose a significant risk for heart disease.
This is something we’ve known all along, and a finding that Gary Taubes published eight years ago in his monumental analysis of fat science, “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” Taubes found that the incessant rant [...]
Tags: diabetes·fat·Gary Taubes·obesity
Saturated Fat Vindicated?
January 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · food news
We don’t harbor any prejudices against fat. In fact, we respect fat as an essential macro-nutrient, along with protein. On a low-carb, high-fat and protein diet, I’ve lost a ton of weight and improved my health dramatically by every standard measure. What’s important is not how much fat you eat, but what kind of fat.
We try [...]
Tags: fat·Food Blogs·heart disease
Health Food Junk
July 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Wellness, kids
The other morning as I was walking my 9-year-old daughter to summer camp at the local recreation center she begged me to stop and buy her something to eat. She was hungry, she complained. Since she had refused the smoothie of fresh berries and homemade yogurt I’d made for her that morning, I wasn’t in [...]
Who’s The Fattest?
July 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Wellness, kids
For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi lumbers in as the fattest state in the nation, but Alabama is closing in fast, according to a new survey by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. In Mississippi, 32.5 percent of adults–that’s one in three–are obese. In Alabama, the figure is [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·fat·obesity
Fat Is Back
June 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Wellness, food news
Kudos to Bon Appetit magazine for including bacon, duck fat, whole milk and anchovies on the Top-10 list of healthiest foods.
Even the American Heart Association (AHA), a leader in the campaign against dietary fat, recently revised its nutritional guidelines, increasing the daily recommendations for fat. “”The science just wasn’t there” to support the anti-fat campaign, acknowledges [...]
The Numbers Are In!
June 10th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Wellness
The results from my latest blood work arrived yesterday.
Drum roll, please….
And the envelope:
HDL, or “good” cholesterol, is up 39 percent, from 41 to 57 (normal range: 40 – 59).
Triglicerides, a measure of fat in the blood and a key marker for insulin resistance and potential heart disease, are down 35 percent, 103 to 66 (normal range: [...]
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