Low-Carb for You

On May 31 hubby and I leave for a 14-day vacation in Northern Europe. I will have limited access to the internet, so go ahead and leave com...

If you have done much reading about the low-carb lifestyle, you have heard about insulin. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas aft...

(This is another post referencing my own experiences. I present it in case someone else might want to give coconut oil a try for weight iss...

(This blogpost is mostly about me and not about science. For those who come here for the science, please feel free to skip it.) As time pass...

Thanks to the work of TV doctors, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, most Americans are convinced that a ...

It's January 2, and already many New Year's resolutions have been tossed onto the ash heap of history. As an alternative for my read...

AIDS, the common cold, and measles are examples of diseases that are known to be contagious. A recent article in PLoS Computational Biology...

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...