Disclaimer: I love and respect many low-carbers and low-carb researchers, and think low-carb diets are very appropriate and perhaps necessary for many people. Many in the low-carb field seem to think that insulin resistance is what is making us fat and even that insulin resistance is caused by… insulin. Too much carb makes too much …
A butter-loving reader posed the following question to me: Thanks for all the work you do. Any chance you could post something on the AGE content of butter? Does it make a difference if AGEs are endogenously or exogenously produced? Thank in advance. Suffice it to say he liked my answer. I’ll repeat it here, …
I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials. A spiffy salesman walks on screen, smiles, and says “Hi, I’m from the Corn Refiners Association, and I’m here to sell you the new American Dream. You can have all the degenerative diseases of modern civilization in a package deal so cheap it’s practically free. All you have to pay …
Does your liver look like this? All those white bubbles are fat droplets. I’m busier than a bumblebee right now, so unfortunately the high-fructose corn syrup post is going to have to wait till Tuesday. Today I’ll make a quick post about fatty liver disease. Someone on the Facebook version of this blog posed the …
A few readers alerted me to a new study claiming that a plant-based, low-carb “Eco-Atkins” diet is associated with a lower risk of mortality and disease, while an animal-based low-carb diet is associated with an increased risk of mortality and disease, as well as an editorial by Dean Ornish in the Huffington Post lauding the …
As I pointed out in a previous blog, saturated fats like palm oil, beef tallow, cocoa butter, and MCT oil (a derivative of coconut oil) protect against alcohol-induced fatty liver disease in animals, whereas polyunsaturated oils like corn oil and fish oil promote it. In fact, animals can consume nearly 30 percent of their calories …
Dr. William Davis is a practicing cardiologist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He publishes interesting thoughts and practical advice on his Heart Scan Blog. Recently, he suggested measuring your blood sugar one hour after meals in order to determine what foods are best for you. Meals that result in a blood sugar under 110 mg/dL one hour …
After the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, fittingly published in 1984, showed that cholestyramine, a drug that lowers cholesterol by causing its conversion to bile acids, could reduce the risk of heart attacks, cholesterol was widely villainized as a killer. From then on, the decades-old campaign of the American Heart Association against eggs and butter was …
In my Cholesterol Podcast on the Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore, I offered the view that atherosclerosis and many other degenerative diseases can be seen as a process of oxidative damage wherein polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) get damaged by toxins, heavy metals, and byproducts of normal metabolism, break into pieces, and then …
This past Saturday, President Obama declared the country to be in a state of National Emergency in response to the H1N1 swine flu “epidemic.” You can read the text of the proclamation here. Just three days earlier, CBS News released the results of a study it had conducted suggesting that swine flue statistics are hugely …