carbohydrates

Nutrition & healing, obstacles to optimal health, macronutrient ratios and more

By on October 4, 2011 in Podcasts | 63 comments

In this "Grab Bag Q&A" episode of the podcast, I discuss the role of nutrition in healing, obstacles to optimal health, macronutrient ratios and more. Questions include: Do you feel with the right nutrition the body is capable of healing itself? In your practice, what do you find to be the biggest barrier stopping people from reaching their optimal health? Should I eat low-carb, low-fat, or do macronutrient ratios not matter? As part of the recent re-branding of the site from ...
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Reframing the obesity debate: cause/effect, genetics & robot clones

By on September 5, 2011 in Diabesity | 110 comments

The more damaged you are, the more carbohydrate restriction is likely to benefit you long term. - Peter @Hyperlipid I don't think there are too many people out there familiar with the mechanisms of diabetes and insulin resistance that would disagree with that statement. But just because a low-carb diet causes fat loss in this population, that doesn't mean that carbs caused the fat gain or damaged metabolism in the first place. I wrote ...
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Beyond Paleo: moving from a “paleo diet” to a “paleo template”

By on June 17, 2011 in Food & Nutrition | 127 comments

Over the last couple of years, as the popularity of the Paleo diet has expanded, a lot of controversy has emerged over exactly what a Paleo diet is. Part of the problem is that there are now a number of authors and bloggers - from Mark Sisson to Kurt Harris to Robb Wolf to Paul Jaminet to myself - that advocate what might generally be called a Paleo diet, but with slight variations in each case. ...
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9 Steps to Perfect Health – #2: Nourish Your Body

By on February 3, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Perfect Health | 125 comments

In step #1, we talked about what not to eat. In this article, we'll talk about what to eat. Most of the calories we get from food come from protein, carbohydrates and fat. These are referred to as macronutrients. We also get other important nutrients from food, such as vitamins and minerals. These don't constitute a significant source of calories, so they're called micronutrients. For the last 50 years we've been told to follow a diet low in ...
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New study blasts the ridiculous low-fat dietary guidelines

By on October 3, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 14 comments

I got an email from Pamela Schoenfeld, R.D. the other day. She wanted to make me aware of a paper she and her colleagues (Hite, et al)published on Friday in the journal Nutrition. It's a critique of the Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Committee (DGAC) that recommended that we all go on eating the same low-fat, high-carb diet that has contributed to the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease (among others). The ...
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The saturated fat myth debunked in two minutes and thirty five seconds

By on April 30, 2010 in Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 68 comments

From the documentary Fat Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4&feature=player_embedded&fmt=22  
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