A Gathering of LC Movers & Shakers

[Mitra]

Last weekend there was a meeting of the Nutrition and Metabolism Society (http://nmsociety.org/). I expect we'll hear quite a bit about it over the next few days, because it seems that anybody who's anybody in the LC world was there.

Laura Dolson gets off to a quick start blogging about her thoughts on it: Saturated fat: not guilty. (http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/b/2008/04/14/saturated-fat-not-guilty.htm) The Drs Eades and Jimmy Moore were there, so I think we'll be seeing more blogs on this soon. Speakers included Gary Taubes, and Jay Wortman (My Big Fat Diet Documentary), Jeff Volek... and many more.

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Waiting with bated breath! :cool:

Wow, I just read Laura's blog. I would love to have been there to hear it all first hand! :nod:

[Mitra]

The blogs are coming in:

Dr Mike's (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/drmikenutritionblog/~3/270302514/)
There were a number of informative presentations during the course of the meeting, a number of which I plan on posting about as time allows (the book deadline draws near). Casual conversations during the breaks, however, were often more enlightening. One of the commonest conversational subjects was how so many incredibly smart people could fail to see the obvious and ignore or even bash carb-restricted diets when so much data is out there showing their superiority. During one of these discussions, one of the scientists at the table (one who does not want to have this statement attributed to him/her, so I won’t) said:

It’s really pretty easy to see why if you understand academia. If, as an academic, you go down the low-carb rabbit hole, your chances of survival in that dog-eat-dog world are about 5 percent. If you follow the herd and pooh pooh low-carb diets, your chances of survival are about 95 percent. The smartest of the academics figure this out quickly and follow the path that leads them to survival and promotion.

Jimmy Moore's (http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2008/04/still-on-cloud-nine-after-asbpnutrition.html)
My only regret is that I didn't have a chance to interview more people at the conference than I did. However, I did get in a few outstanding ones in my limited time--Dr. Richard Feinman, director of The Nutrition & Metabolism Society and co-Editor-In-Chief of the Open Access online journal Nutrition & Metabolism, Drs. Mike and Mary Dan Eades from Protein Power (see Dr. Mike's blog post about the conference by clicking here), the producer of the hit CBC-Newsworld documentary film My Big Fat Diet (which we were able to watch on Sunday morning) about a group of First Nations people who returned to their native high-fat, low-carb diet named Mary Bissell, and a 45-minute chat with the author of Good Calories, Bad Calories Gary Taubes. These and MANY more interviews for my podcast show will be coming in the next few months from various people who attended the conference, so get ready

They're mainly overviews at the moment - with promises of podcasts of the various interviews held over the weekend, and more detailed reporting on specific topics later.

And here's a photo of the Eadeses.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2415102434_de7b8512fa_m.jpg