The official website of Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades, low carb pioneers and authors of Protein Power.
I read Gary Taubes’s new book The Case Against Sugar twice. First I read it in manuscript, then in galley proof. My intention was to write a review of it to be posted around the book’s publication date, but on or just before pub date a dozen other reviews hit the web. Consequently, some of…
The sugar hypothesis of heart disease triumphs yet again over the lipid hypothesis. A study presented recently in Rome and published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates that efforts to lower blood sugar pay off better in lower rates of heart disease and longer life than do efforts to lower cholesterol. In fact,…
I’m always amazed at how the lipid hypothesis of heart disease has wormed its way deep into the souls of physicians, scientists, and medical/nutritional writers the world over. The flimsiest piece of research appearing to confirm this entrenched bias is not only accepted uncritically (not by yours truly, of course), but is shouted from the…
The Arrow is A Critical Look at Nutritional Science and Whatever Else Strikes My Fancy. Sent each week… exclusively on beehiiv.