Low-Carb for You

Admit it. Low-carbing is hard. You have to keep a constant eye on what you're eating. And you have to cope with the fact that the people...

The short answer is yes, you can be fat and and not realize that you're fat. A recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine used...

Winter is on its way. Leaves are changing color; daylight is diminishing. Another sign of impending winter is the temperature change, with c...

Last time we looked at the possibility that genetics may determine whether a person is able to lose more weight on a low-carb diet or on a l...

We now have three articles in three respected journals showing that weight loss over 1-2 years on a low-carb diet is equal to or better tha...

Ladies and gentlemen of the low-carb community: We have a hat-trick. 1. On March 7, 2007, the Journal of the American Medical Association (J...

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...