Low-Carb for You

When I began losing weight with low-carb, my motivation was not the usual one. I knew that as an obese woman, I would have very little credi...

There are about 2000 counties in China. In the 1980’s, Cornell University did a large ecological study in 65 of them and published the data ...

(Warning: Most of my posts are science-based, but this one comes from my own experiences, i.e. , n=1. Forewarned is forearmed, so here we go...

After people have low-carbed for a while, they start to look better and feel better. As their health improves, one of the natural questions ...

No, this blogpost won't address the ethics of writing out the answers for an exam on your hand. In the context of low-carb, cheating mea...

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...