O Solid Fat, turn not thy face from thy Lord, for my budget is in trouble. In “Fructose, Public Policy, and the Low-Fat Reeducation Camp,” I made the following prediction: If they come for our fructose, they will come for our fat next. It seems that Denmark has provided some evidence for this postulate by …
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Where Do Most AGEs Come From? O Glycation, How Thy Name Hast Deceived Me!
I’ve written a few posts about advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) in the past, which can be found here. These posts include a refutation of the common belief that the “receptor for AGEs” (RAGE) is actually a receptor for AGEs, and a refutation of the implausible and unreliable data suggesting that butter is a major source …
The Trouble With Measuring AGEs — Butter and More
This post is basically a technical footnote to my next post on advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and all subsequent posts on AGEs explaining why I will give preference to certain studies that use what I consider reliable methods for measuring these compounds. In my previous posts, “Is Butter High in AGEs?” and “Is the Receptor …
A Saturday Salad
The difference between a Wednesday salad and a Saturday salad? A little cheese. 🙂 avar _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-22004430-1′]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘https://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Ingredients: romaine …
Forks Over Knives: A Pictorial Review
My Dinner Tonight. Typical Wednesday Fare. (The salad is dressed in macadamia nut oil and coconut vinegar.) The plantains I sauteed in coconut oil jumped ship and swam to the bottom of my belly as soon as they saw the camera coming. I don’t buy bacon very often, but when I went to Whole …
How T. Colin Campbell Helped Prove That Protein Protects Us: Glutathione
New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: a post celebrating the one-year anniversary of “The Curious Case of Campbell’s Rats,” taking a look at how glutathione can prevent and reverse liver cancer, and reflecting on the role of glutathione in Campbell’s animal experiments. You can read it here: Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane, Fishing for …
The Masai Part II: A Glimpse of the Masai Diet at the Turn of the 20th Century — A Land of Milk and Honey, Bananas From Afar
The next post in my Masai series is up over at Mother Nature Obeyed:
How to Do a Proper Self-Experiment, and Why Your “N” Doesn’t Technically Equal “1”
Aravind recently suggested in the comments that I write a blog post about a discussion he and I had in the hallway at the Ancestral Health Symposium about “n=1 experiments.” The thrust of this discussion was that if you want to do a true self-experiment where you can definitively demonstrate cause and effect, you can actually conduct a …
Gary Taubes on Cherry-Picking and Paradigm Shifts (A Brief Thought on Science)
Warning: A Serious Blog Post Occurs Somewhere Below Some controversy recently erupted in the Twitter-sphere when a number of us including Dave Dixon and Dallas Hartwig were recently discussing Denise Minger’s angular hypothesis of atherosclerosis, in which she proposed that increased concentrations of serum bananas and increased concentrations of other plasma constituents with pointy ends or sharp edges penetrate the …
Fat and Diabetes — Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione
New blog post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Fat and Diabetes: Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione Enjoy!