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Nutrition

Don’t Avoid Trans Fats?

April 10, 2008

One seemingly strong argument you might have heard from vegetarians and vegans is, “Meat is bad for you, since all meat contains naturally-occuring trans fatty acids, which we all know are bad bad bad for you.” 
Well, half of the statement is entirely true: Meat (from ruminants) does indeed contain trans fats, as does dairy.  But the [...]

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Additions or Subtractions?

April 8, 2008

Subtractions – definitely subtractions.
As in, which is more important to diet success: The good foods you add to your diet, or the bad foods you stop eating?
Don’t get me wrong; it’s excellent that you’ve started eating salads and adding fish oil to your diet.  But do you really think that the fat-burning effects of DHA [...]

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Gary Taubes.

March 9, 2008

I finally got around to watching the entirety of this video. If you don’t know who Gary Taubes is, he’s a science journalist who wrote my favorite book of the last 10 years, Good Calories, Bad Calories. In my opinion, this book is required reading for any health or medical professional (regardless of [...]

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Pop Quiz.

February 20, 2008

How well do you know the food you’re putting into your body?
Both Ross Enamait and Scott at Modern Forager posted a neat-o food quiz from Consumer Reports comparing calories and fat of various foods.  As is always the case with these types of things, the answers are probably the opposite of what you’d expect. 

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I Hate To Say, “I Told You So…”

January 25, 2008

…but “I told you so.”
Can’t get enough of my wild rantings on cholesterol?  Check out:
Aim First, Before You Shoot. 
Greater Chance of Death With Lower LDL.
Fat is Not To Be Feared. 

    

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DIY Bars.

January 24, 2008

Bar none, the best way to insure success on a fat loss regimen is prepare your own meals.  No better option exists as far as controlling portioning, nutrient partitioning (carbs vs. fat vs. protein), and ingredients (high-fructose corn syrup no more!).
So if you’re going to all the trouble of cooking your own meals, why settle for [...]

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Tabula Rasa and Better Choices.

November 19, 2007

One particularly nefarious method of self-sabotage is to say to yourself, “Well, looks like I blew my diet today; might as well forget about it and try again tomorrow.”
Realize that every meal, every feeding is opportunity for tabula rasa – that even if you screw up one meal, while you can’t “make up” for that [...]

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What Saw II Can Teach You About Exercise Program Design.

October 30, 2007

One of the more diabolical puzzles in the horror film Saw II is known as The Razor Box Trap.

Above: Ouchie. (pic courtesy of Wikipedia)
What’s so nefarious about this trap is that the harder the victim tries to circumvent the trap (in the straightforward way), the more the blades dig into her flesh and the deeper [...]

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Dinner…For Breakfast?

October 25, 2007

What do you eat for breakfast if you’re on a low-carb regimen and you don’t like eggs?
One of the biggest sticking points on a diet comes when you run out of quick but tasty breakfast ideas. After all, who has the time in the morning to bake a quiche, and how many days in a [...]

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Or, You Could Just Stop Eating Sugar.

October 21, 2007

The most e-mailed article from yesterday’s New York Times was this little ditty about diabetes:
In Diabetes, a Complex of Causes. (pardon the link, I realize not all of you are registered with the New York Times)
You’d be forgiven if your first thought upon reading this article was about how wonderful it is that [...]

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