Chow on chow, Parkinson's Law, two ways of doing something, and love.

Another mixed bag of subjects. First, here is Mr Carson C. Chow.

From A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

According to Mr. Chow, Americans are getting increasingly fat because they're eating increasingly large amounts of "chow", because there's increasingly large amounts of it being produced. That's classic Parkinson's law (consumption expands to absorb the available supply).

According to Armi Legge, over-fat people need to . . . . Eat Less (& Move More).

There are two ways to "Eat Less".

1) Measure everything that goes into your mouth, calculate the calories in it and stick to an average daily calorie limit. Weigh yourself daily and adjust your intake to achieve a certain rate of rolling-averaged weight loss i.e. you consciously create a caloric deficit.

2) Tweak your diet until you find one that you can live with, that results in your belt and/or clothes getting looser i.e. you unconsciously create a caloric deficit. If you can't unconsciously create a caloric deficit, there will have to be some conscious restriction.

1) suits athletes & body-builders, as they are highly-motivated people who have a specific target in mind, whether it be athletic performance or a specific body-fat percentage/muscle mass/appearance.

2) suits the general public, as they aren't generally highly-motivated and won't tolerate hunger pangs.

Unfortunately, "Move More" has to be done consciously. Unconscious "Move More" i.e. Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) a.k.a. Spontaneous Physical Activity (SPA) is genetically-determined.

Finally, I read Stretching out. I've been spending too much time on a blog full of fallacies & hate and it's been making me tetchy. I've now disengaged from that blog permanently. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's better!

Continued on Completing the trine: vive la différence!

Diet, Nutrition & Fitness: Whatever the question, the right answer is "It all depends".

The carbohydrate pendulum keeps on swinging! Bloggers keep on fighting!

Carbohydrates are good. No, they're bad. Wait, they're good again. Nope, bad again. Good again. Aargh!

So, are carbohydrates good or bad? See the title. Gluten? See the title.

As Everyone is Different, whether "X" is good, bad or indifferent all depends on genes (including gender), the expression of those genes, environment (i.e. birth weight, exposure to pollutants in the womb & after birth), general diet (i.e. nutrients, anutrients & anti-nutrients), lifestyle (i.e. sunlight exposure, stress, sleep etc) and type, level & volume of activity.

Rigid diets & taking loadsa supplements to compensate for them.

I do not believe you want to be doing that!

This post was inspired by a recently-published study by Alan Aragon & Brad Schoenfeld, as bodybuilders are a group of people who often eat a rigid diet (some eat skinless chicken breasts, broccoli & brown rice for several meals each day).

See Nutrient timing revisited: is there a post-exercise anabolic window?
"Collectively, these data indicate an increased potential for dietary flexibility while maintaining the pursuit of optimal timing."

This post is also aimed at people who eat severely restricted diets in the (often mistaken) belief that something's making them ill.

People with type 1 diabetes who struggle to keep their blood glucose within reasonable limits (3 to 8mmol/L, or 24 to 144mg/dL) benefit from restricting their intake of high-GL carbohydrates, so this post is not aimed at them. See The problem with Diabetes.

People with type 2 diabetes who severely restrict their intake of carbohydrates must be in caloric deficit, otherwise the physiological insulin resistance caused by high serum NEFAs will mess up just about everything in their body if they are in caloric balance or caloric excess. I've read (so it could be false) that a certain non-skinny blogger who I'm in conflict with (who has type 2 diabetes and who eats a VLC diet) has heart problems and is taking medication(s) for high blood pressure. Hmmm.

People who suffer from gastrointestinal problems after eating gluten-containing foods, or mucus after eating casein-containing foods may have impaired gut integrity. See Gluten - more than just a pain in the guts?

Supplements that I consider of positive value are:-

Fish oils: If the diet is low in oily fish (tinned tuna is not an oily fish), there may be insufficient EPA & DHA (especially in men, children & post-menopausal women). Women of reproductive age can get away with taking flaxseed oil.

Magnesium: If the diet is low in veg/high in dairy, there may be too much Calcium relative to Magnesium.

Vitamin D3: If the lifestyle results in sun-avoidance, insufficiency in Vitamin D is highly likely.

Vitamin K2: If the diet is low in animal fats and/or fermented foods, insufficiency in Vitamin K2 is highly likely.

Supplements that I consider of negative value are:-

Vitamin A: If there's an insufficiency in Vitamin D, supplementing with Vitamin A/β-carotene may exacerbate it. As Vitamin D + Calcium may reduce cancer risk, supplementing with Vitamin A absent Vitamin D3 may increase cancer risk.

Vitamin E: If there's an insufficiency in γ-tocopherol, supplementing with α-tocopherol may exacerbate it. As γ-tocopherol may reduce CHD mortality risk, supplementing with α-tocopherol absent γ-tocopherol may increase CHD mortality risk. Most Vitamin E supplements contain α-tocopherol only. Some Vitamin E supplements contain mixed tocopherols and these are O.K.

Politics, Religion and Diet.

Three subjects that people love to fight about, as they are about beliefs ;-)

Human population vs Year.

 

Politics:

In Palaeolithic times, there weren't many people living on this planet. People hunted and gathered their food, and had relatively non-hierarchical, egalitarian social structures. According to archaeologists, violence in hunter-gatherer societies was ubiquitous. Approximately 25% to 30% of adult male deaths in these societies were due to homicide, compared to an upper estimate of 3% of all deaths in the 20th century. The cause of this is near constant tribal warfare: "From the !Kung in the Kalahari to the Inuit in the Arctic and the aborigines in Australia, two-thirds of modern hunter-gatherers are in a state of almost constant tribal warfare, and nearly 90% go to war at least once a year." However, due to the extremely low population back then, extremely few people were killed in absolute terms. Then, around 10,000 BC, some bright spark/bulb invented agriculture...

Fast-forward a few thousand years to the time of Genghis Khan. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of north-east Asia. The Mongol invasions resulted in wholesale massacres of civilian populations. His descendants went on to stretch the Mongol Empire across most of Eurasia by conquering or creating vassal states out of all of modern-day China, Korea, the Caucasus, Central Asian countries, and substantial portions of modern Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Many of these invasions repeated the earlier large-scale slaughters of local populations. However, due to the low population (around 300 million), few people were killed in absolute terms. Then, around 1,600 AD, some bright spark/bulb invented government...

As mentioned in How did we get to where we are today? Part 2., the invention of liberal government encouraged the exchange of ideas and entrepreneurship. Monarchies taxed people, but their bureaucracies stifled entrepreneurship, so the French and the Chinese invented loads of stuff that never saw the light of day. We Brits got lucky. As a result, the Industrial Revolution created wealth out of dirt, which led to rapid economic growth and rapid population growth. The Green Revolution led to more rapid population growth.

Fast-forward to the 21st Century. Warfare has killed millions of people. Rulers have killed hundreds of millions of people (the vast majority by totalitarian & authoritarian regimes), according to Anarchy Begins at Home: The Blog Series Part 6 – Democide. However, due to the extremely high population, only approximately 5.6% of the total population have been killed by rulers. That's what I call relative peace.

EDIT: I don't want a system where entire populations can be slaughtered by armies led by a charismatic leader. I also don't want a system where the poor & underprivileged are "free" to die in poverty. Some people scrounge off Social Security, but the amount of money scrounged by them pales into insignificance compared to the amount of money scrounged off the rest of us by the wealthiest people on this planet.

 

Religion:

I'm not religious. I have no problem with people believing in God, as long as they have no problem with me not believing in God. A thought experiment that you may find interesting is God's Debris, by Scott Adams.

 

Diet:

Read the rest of my blog, dammit!

In other news...
Mum is now in a coma, but her breathing is regular.

Failure to communicate, civil wars and dim bulbs.

Hat-tip to marie (who's a very bright bulb indeed!) for the following video.


Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway?

The reason why I'm writing this is because there's (un)civil war on the internets between various "camps".

At any given moment:-
There are people who function physically & mentally at their best on VLC/Keto diets.
There are people who function physically & mentally at their best on LC diets.
There are people who function physically & mentally at their best on MC diets.
There are people who function physically & mentally at their best on HC diets.
There are people who function physically & mentally at their best on VHC diets.
As people's circumstances change, they move to a different category.

If you don't understand what I wrote above, you are a dim bulb.
If you think that insults can offend me, you are a dim bulb.
If you think that agreeing 90% with someone makes me an ass/arse-kisser, you are a dim bulb.
If you think that I'll take insults from you without retaliation, you are a dim bulb.
Sadly, due to the Dunning–Kruger effect, dim bulbs are too dim to know that they are dim bulbs!
If you are offended by anything that I wrote above, I don't care.

In other news...
Mum's condition has deteriorated to the point where she is unresponsive and no longer has a swallow reflex. It's just a matter of time before she dies. I've been prepared for this for quite some time.

Musings on the Paleo Diet.

Would you ask the man below for advice on how to give up alcohol?

I recently read Patients less likely to trust and listen to overweight doctors, which mentioned Mark Sisson. Sisson and Robb Wolf are good representatives for the Paleo Diet. Some are bad representatives for the Paleo Diet due to poor physical condition or abrasive personality.

The Paleo Diet gets flak from scientists like Marlene Zuk and Christina Warinner and it was criticised in The Paleo Diet (hat-tip to Melissa McEwen).

The thing is that people don't need to eat a Palaeolithic diet to be 90% free from degenerative diseases. A mere 150 years ago, Mid-Victorian Brits who didn't die in childhood managed to live to a ripe old age, as cheap sugar imports, junk food, labour-saving devices and horseless carriages hadn't yet been invented.

Just Eat Real Food.

Everyone is Different, Part 3.

Cont'd from Everyone is Different, Part 2.

Hat-tip to Bill Lagakos, whose article Missing: 300 kilocalories reminded me of the following graphic from Effects of Dietary Composition During Weight Loss Maintenance: A Controlled Feeding Study.

Lo and behold, even when subjects are bribed to stick to the diets that they are provided with, the effect of eating those diets varies hugely.

So, people like ItsTheWoo and Petro Dobromylskyj (yes, I have to copy and paste the name from his site every freakin' time!) rave about how awful carbs are, while people like Go Kaleo and Matt Stone rave about how awesome carbs are.

Everyone is different for a number of reasons, some of which are unchangeable and some of which are changeable. We can't change our birth weight, what our mums ate when we were in the womb or the chemicals that we were exposed to in the past. We can't change our genes, but we can change the expression of our genes by changing diet, activity and even supplementation. See Influence of Vitamin D Status and Vitamin D₃ Supplementation on Genome Wide Expression of White Blood Cells: A Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial.

How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died.

Hat-tip to Prof. Tim Noakes, who recently tweeted the above study.

See How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died.

"The crude average figures often used to depict the brevity of Victorian lives mislead because they include infant mortality, which was tragically high. If we strip out peri-natal mortality, however, and look at the life expectancy of those who survived the first five years, a very different picture emerges. Victorian contemporary sources reveal that life expectancy for adults in the mid-Victorian period was almost exactly what it is today.
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From 1875 on and especially after 1885, rising imports of cheap food basics were increasingly affecting the food chain at home. Imported North American wheat and new milling techniques reduced the prices of white flour and bread. Tinned meat arrived from the Argentine, Australia and New Zealand, which was cheaper than either home-produced or refrigerated fresh meat also arriving from these sources. Canned fruit and condensed milk became widely available.

This expansion in the range of foods was advertised by most contemporaries, and by subsequent historians, as representing a significant ‘improvement’ in the working class diet. The reality was very different. These changes undoubtedly increased the variety and quantity of the working class diet, but its quality deteriorated markedly. The imported canned meats were fatty and usually ‘corned’ or salted. Cheaper sugar promoted a huge increase in sugar consumption in confectionery, now mass-produced for the first time, and in the new processed foods such as sugar-laden condensed milk, and canned fruits bathed in heavy syrup. The increased sugar consumption caused such damage to the nation’s teeth that by 1900 it was commonly noted that people could no longer chew tough foods and were unable to eat many vegetables, fruits and nuts [26]. For all these reasons the late-Victorian diet actually damaged the health of the nation, and the health of the working classes in particular.

The decline was astonishingly rapid..."

See also Who Lives Longest? (h/t to Melissa McEwen)

Seven Tips On How To Lose Stomach Fat At Home

Lose Stomach Fat

There are so many different diets that for people who are serious about weight loss, it can be quite confusing. Frustrated? Now you can relax, because here. Few basic rules you can follow that the question of how one can be solved lose belly fat fast at home The good news is that you can easily integrate it into your daily routine for the rest of your life.

1. Get enough sleep. According to studies, can significantly boost your metabolism by at least 8 hours of sleep are often those who sleep less until the end of overeating to them. The energy they had gained through more sleep Try to get at least 8 hours of sleep every night for a month and see what a difference it makes to your health!



2. Guests can work out in the evenings. Research shows that our metabolism to slow down during the late afternoon or at the end of the day tends. So, so you burn more calories, go to set aside some time in the evenings for a walk, a bike ride or go to the gym. It will be easier to keep this motivation high when you find a workout buddy!

3. Increase your overall movement. Of course you will lose more calories when you, as you move still. Try to walk to a nearby place instead of driving. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Do some gardening instead watch more TV. By gradual changes, you will notice that what your life is always active, you will be one of the secrets of how you learned to lose stomach fat fast at home.

4. Add more protein to your diet. Proteins, which stabilizes the insulin production in your body. Too much insulin (caused by sugary foods) leads to more fat storage in all your mid section.

5. Remember to skip meals. This is definitely something you want to stay away from. You need your body is not good, by putting in "starvation mode". Everything you do, is that all you are doing is telling your body that it store extra fat, if it does not get new needs nutrients, and they slow down your metabolism to adjust food intake. And really, skipping meals you will never have a flat, toned stomach. It is absolutely not how to lose stomach fat fast at home.

6. Make sure your water intake is still high. Staying well hydrated will help your joints move well and will also help flush away excess fats in your body and blood.

7. Build muscle mass. How to lose stomach fat fast at home, is working on it increasing muscle mass, either. By raising your children aware Bend your muscles how to be a vacuum, putting food away Lean muscle accelerates both the metabolism and burn fat.

By these seven proposals in place, you are. Well on your way to solving this challenge, how to lose belly fat fast at home Best of luck!

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In the spotlight: protein diet

Protein Diet

To determine the effect of dietary protein to understand, we need to understand how the energy in our body is supplied. Through our daily diet we take carbohydrates, fats and proteins (proteins) in our body. These are the carbohydrates and fats that provide the energy that our bodies need to function. The proteins do provide care for the building, maintenance and repair of tissues in the body.

Burning carbohydrates versus fats?

In "normal" circumstances, the body will first burn carbohydrates to meet energy needs. One can consider carbohydrates as the "current account" which the normal daily energy requirements are met. It is only when these current account can not meet the energy that our bodies change channels to the burning of fats that we can consider as our "savings account" (This will be the only time that we want to plunder our savings account).


How does a protein diet?

A protein diet ensures that there are no crabs in our body ** be recorded on a continuous basis so that our body will burn fat to meet its energy needs.

Difference with a classical diet.

In the classic diet we eat less. The ratio of carbohydrates, fats and proteins remains the same, the amount we record's just less. The protein diet is an imbalance created in which more proteins (proteins) are recognized and less fat and crabs. The core idea of ​​a protein diet is: To lose one should NOT balanced diet!

Why proteins? Protein is an important nutrient, required for the construction, maintenance and repair of tissues in the body. Very typical of a classic diet is the loss of muscle mass due to a lack of protein and a lower metabolism: the body gets less fuel and the combustion energy put on the back burner.

At a protein diet, there is a typical reaction of the body that are "ketose" is mentioned. After 2 or 3 days the body by a shortage of carbohydrates about to burn fat, which ketose are released that provide energy (you read that right - the body does not experience hunger: in contrast to the classical diet).

The dissociated diet

Eat everything but at the same time

The dissociated diet is a method of eating but not all at the same time: each food consumed in isolation does not grow even if absorbed in large quantities.

Each day is dedicated to one type of food: meat or fish or eggs or dairy or vegetables or fruits. And you will eat the food at every meal of the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner and nothing else!

Failure to eat only one food on a meal leads to a faster satiety, so we monge less and lose weight.

Of course, the dissociated diet should be practiced over a short period to avoid deficiencies.

Methods Montignac, Antoine and Shelton are based on dissociated diet.

Example dissociated diet menu:

• Monday : exclusive consumption of fish

• Tuesday : exclusive consumption of fruits

• Wednesday : exclusive consumption of dairy

• Thursday : exclusive consumption of vegetables

• Friday : exclusive consumption of meat

• Saturday : exclusive consumption of cheese

• Sunday : exclusive consumption of eggs

The Mayo regimen

A diet hard but effective

The Mayo diet, named after its inventor, is a very strict diet, short-term (2 weeks) and can lose up to 8 pounds the first week! With the Mayo regimen, which is kind of low calorie , sugar and starches are totally forbidden, ditto for soft drinks or flavored. The only drinks permitted are coffee and tea (without sugar!) And above the water it is advisable to drink at least 1.5 liters per day.

should not exceed 1000 calories per day, and for this should ban foods high in fat and carbohydrates, including fruit that should be consumed in small quantities.

receipts Mayo regimen consist of grapefruit, toast (no butter or jam) for breakfast, and eggs, meat and fish for lunch and dinner.

The major drawback is that the Mayo regimen causes a real strain because of reduced intake calcium and vitamins. It is for this reason that the Mayo regimen should not last more than 2 weeks.

Morning Banana Diet

How about lose weight quickly and without going hungry and can eat anything? That's what promises Morning Banana Diet, which was created in Japan a few years ago and became the fever there and then also in the United States. The success in Japan was much that led to a shortage of bananas in the local supermarkets.

Proponents of the Banana Diet say that it is possible to lose weight 8 kgs in one month or up to 18 kgs in two months on this diet. This all with out restrictions on what you eat for lunch or dinner. But is the Banana Diet really work?

How Does the Banana Diet

The Banana Diet is very easy to follow, there are few rules and there is a specific menu, just a few rules. See also:

•   At breakfast, eat 1-4 bananas accompanied by warm or at room temperature

•   Do not eat anything until lunch time

•   Lunch and dinner usually eat

•   Afternoon Snack released

•   The dinner should be made until 8 pm and after dinner, nothing else should be consumed until bedtime

•   Sleep before midnight

But this diet work?

The banana is a fruit rich in fiber, both soluble and insoluble. The fiber in bananas prolong satiety, leading people to eat less naturally. The resistant starch, type of fibers which contains banana, when digested produces substances which can increase the capacity of the body fat burning and also decrease the accumulation of it in the body.

Banana Calories and Nutrients

A banana is far from being considered a high-calorie food, it can have between 60-180 calories depending on size. The banana gold is the calorie about 125 calories. Other bananas and silver as the dwarf contains about 90 calories.

Diets to Lose Weight

How to Loss weight? To answer this question asked by more and more people, all the time there are new formulas for weight loss and diets for weight loss developed by specialists.
Diets to Loss Most Popular

Every moment brings new weight loss diets, regimes of famous and miraculous remedies that promise to make you Loss weight. Among the most popular diets are:

Diet of points: diet for weight loss is a very popular in world, with different versions that were created over time but in practice they all follow the same format. Each type of food is worth so many points, you have points and can not exceed a certain number of points per day. It would be the same as counting calories.

Protein Diet: There are also some different versions of this diet that preaches eating more protein. In practice this diet recommends increased consumption of protein and a reduction in carbohydrate intake for those who want to Loss weight.

Soup Diet: this diet to Lose weight is to eat soup for lunch and / or dinner.

Diet of Teas: there are several versions, such as diet white tea, green tea, etc.. Recommends the consumption of slimming teas.

Formula to Loss weight fast there?

There are several formulas to Loss weight fast which are often published in various media, but the question is whether they are really effective. After all, there is no point to Lose weight fast in 3 days, 1 week or 1 month, if you then you gain all the weight they lost, causing what they call accordion effect. The ideal formula for losing weight should have a lasting effect, involving a dietary reeducation. Only then you will be able to maintain the ideal weight for a long time.

Are vitamins and nutritional supplements necessary

Are Vitamins and Food supplements necessary? Clearly answered in the affirmative. But is that really so? The positive image of these chemical manufacturers is still unknown. Often consumers have drawn the conclusion that fruit and vegetables are not required to stay healthy. Lately, however, indications are growing that this Food supplements more harmful than healthy.

Today, research is the finding suggests that too many Vitamins health more harm. Between 20 and 30% of US adults take an occasional or even regular vitamin supplements. There is no scientifically sound and well-documented studies that prove that taking vitamin and mineral supplements have the same health effects, such as by eating fruits and vegetables. A balanced fitness and health diet plans with

• Five servings of fruits and vegetables a day

• Dairy products

• Grain Products

• Fish and meat (poultry)

ensuring an adequate supply of Vitamin sand all the necessary minerals. It should of course be taken in principle to the freshness and quality of individual foods. Low-fat dairy products can be enjoyed preferred grain products are important for the adequate supply of trace elements contained therein.

When healthy eating is not necessary vitamins and nutritional supplements

In order for the physical features and the biochemical processes in the body optimally, minerals, trace elements and vitamins are necessary. It is therefore not surprising that the body reacts in the absence or insufficient intake of symptoms. These might include fatigue or poor concentration. Existing illnesses may be adversely affected, different diseases are actually in direct connection with it. In a balanced health diet plans and a healthy lifestyle, the supply of vitamins and nutrients is guaranteed on a natural basis.

Supplied in the form of natural vitamins and minerals are of higher value and can be better utilized by the body and absorbed. Instead, the modern health diet plans  of fast food or finished products to make healthier through vitamin supplements, you should prefer to switch to a healthy and natural health diet plans. This is especially the sensual pleasure of fresh and quality food in the foreground.

Anti-aging and nutritional supplements from 50plus

In the phase of life from the age of 50 plus a lot of women, but men also rely on health diet plans  supplements for vitality and beauty. These are trace elements, especially selenium and others. Selenium is known as a radical scavenger and is designed to protect against harmful environmental influences. Silica is useful for a firm connective tissue and is therefore particularly at age 50 plus a premium. Biotin promotes healthy hair and nails strong and is seen particularly in combination with folic acid to be very effective. These minerals can actually be absorbed by high-quality nutritional supplements in the form, they are only available in natural foods at a very small part, and therefore provide only an inadequate supply.

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Carb cycling for runners

Carb cycling is something that I am playing with at the moment with the help of Andy at Ripped Body...but that is for another post.  Anyway, I saw this post on carb cycling for runners.  Good stuff:

Carbohydrate Cycling For Runners

Athletes learning from bodybuilders again.

Robb Wolf's Paleo Budget Shopping Guide

If just received a review copy of Robb Wolf's new ebook - a Paleo Budget Shopping Guide - and have been quickly skimming through it.  I like it.

Target

The book is aimed clearly at addressing one key complaint - "I can't afford it!".   People may be convinced that a paleo diet is wise and could solve  their health and performance issues, but it just seems like it would be beyond their wallet.  It is very much a book for this century when many have forgotten how to buy and cook real food.


You can afford it!

Robb sees this very much as an excuse - often it is about making time to shop and cook - and explains how you can improve your diet to adopt a Paleo template without going bankrupt. 

Cook, Plan, Save, Shop and Prepare

Across the ebook's 6 chapters, Robb deals with these key principles.

• Learn to cook - there are preparation methods that make things cheap and easy, like a pressure cooker or slow cooker.
• Plan your meals - a bit of planning will stop waste and allow you to pull together the maximum meal from minimum resources.
• Money Saving tricks - Robb outlines a few ideas on saving money on your shopping - buying in bulk for example and getting ingredients not products so that you are not paying someone else to do the preparation.
• Budget Shopping Priorities - the tweaks....if you can afford organic and grass-fed , what should you go for?
  
• Kitchen tricks - final ideas and hacks for saving time and money in the kitchen...freezing and cooking in bulk for example.

Not just for Paleo 

 Yes this is aimed at paleo adopters.....but I am convinced that there are lessons here that would help any of us...whatever your diet.  If you want to eat real food but are worried about affording it then this book will point you in the right direction.

The Voice

If you listen to Robb's podcasts you will recognise his voice in the writing - it is playful, witty and accessible.  Highly recommended!

Click on the images above or below to buy your copy.

I am not my diet

There is more to me than what I eat or what I believe about what I eat.

The whole debate about carbs is worrying me.   People are not getting it as Dr Kurt Harris says we need to be macro agnostic.  Remove the bad stuff - primarily gluten grains and vegetable oils - then you have a lot of leeway.  But people become so identified with their diets that change becomes a challenge at an ontological level

Real Food hits the Daily Mail

I normally can't stand the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of the Mail (plus its on going cancer chronicles) but this is an interesting account of someone that stopped being a vegan, started eating meat and got healthy.

Damn your low fat diet: How a reformed vegan gorges on all the foods his granny enjoyed... and has never felt better