Can your food make you fit?

Can your food make you fit?

A paper recently appeared in the scientific literature demonstrating an enormous and previously unknown benefit of low-carbohydrate dieting. (1) I haven’t seen this study mentioned anywhere, so, important though it is, it seems to have flown under the radar of all the low-carb experts and the press. The study is about how restricting carbohydrates –…

Oprah's plight

The media is alive today with advanced reports that the January issue of O magazine contains an interview with its namesake Oprah Winfrey in which she divulges that she has once again become obese. (here, here and here) Apparently the queen of daytime TV (and my neighbor down the street) has ballooned up to 200…

Carbohydrates are addictive

Carbohydrates are addictive

You think carbohydrates aren’t addictive?  You think it’s easy to give them up?  You don’t think it possible that people might prefer carbs to life? Think again. A story title “Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer” appeared in the online version of Time Magazine last year that I read when it came out, put aside…

Metabolic efficiency

Metabolic efficiency

Someone I know gave me a look at a book by a guy named Dr. Gregory Ellis, who is a Ph.D. body builder and an ex-pro footballer, and asked me to take a look at it. The book suffers from being self published and not having the helping hand of a professional editor. It is…

Resistant starch

Yesterday a reader sent me a film clip from ABC news about resistant starch. (Click here to view the video) In this film clip a young woman who is a registered dietitian (RD) spoke about the virtues of a “type of fiber” that she referred to as resistant starch. According to her, this substance can…