Low-Carb for You

For the next few weeks, I will be on an overseas vacation. In the meantime, I've been searching on Google and have come up with a set of...

The man in the picture has insulin resistance and what the Heart Scan Blog" calls "wheat belly," right? Wrong. He has a horm...

The metabolic syndrome is a symptom set that includes the following: increased truncal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood glucose, lo...

Today's question is: What if you know that the dietary-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol hypothesis doesn't work very well to explain he...

When low-carbers begin following the low-carb lifestyle, they start to feel free. Free of the hunger that forces them to eat every few hours...

Last week we criticized Good Calories Bad Calories . This week we shall praise it. In chapter 6 of GCBC , Gary Taubes discusses Captain Thom...

When Good Calories Bad Calories (abbreviated here as GCBC ) was published in 2007, the low-carb community was ecstatic. Dr. Robert Atkins a...

As most low-carbers already know, eating fat produces satiety. But in some cases, eating fat also helps a dieter lose weight. It turns out t...

As we discussed in the previous post, saturated fats are not fats that are saturated with calories or saturated with cholesterol. "Satu...

Since Dr. Ancel Keys and his colleagues formulated and promulgated the diet-heart hypothesis in the 1960's, the idea of eating saturated...

I have a project and a deadline in the real world, so I probably won't be able to blog for a while longer. Questions and comments on pre...

Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. They cannot be synthesized by the human body, but are important ...

Certain dietary deficiency diseases are quite straightforward. For instance, if we don't consume enough vitamin C for a long period of t...

In 2004 the Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of dietary supplements containing ephedra in the United States. Although studies ha...

The other day I was at Sam's Club, pushing my cart past the supplement section on the way to the meat counter. As I glanced at the shelv...

Those of us who have done low-carb for years are happy to sing the praises of the low-carb lifestyle--decreased weight and increased energy,...