Category Archives: Nutritional Research

Cheese is like Cocaine?

Over on a “journal” named Plos One, at journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117959 (I refuse to grace these morons with a live Read more […]

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Interview with Dr. Peter Ballerstedt

I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Peter Ballerstedt via Skype. Dr. Ballerstedt came to my attention a couple of months ago when a link to his site Read more […]

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My Ketonix Finally Arrived!

After nearly a month of waiting (I blame Jimmy Moore for making the Ketonix so incredibly popular that it was sold out for several weeks), I finally got my Ketonix Sport today, and decided to try it right away, although I expected that I would probably not be in ketosis. Continue reading

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Interview With Dr. Ann Childers on the 2014 LCC

I was thinking I had already covered most of the topics I planned to talk about, and was trying to think of other things to talk about only about 15 minutes into the chat. Then Dr. Childers told me that she wanted to talk about the results she was having with her patients with low-carb.

DOH! Continue reading

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program…

One of the nifty devices that Jimmy Moore showed us on the 2014 LCC was a breath-a-lizer type device that would measure ketones. At the time, he wasn’t sure of the time it would make it to the market, but it has arrived! Continue reading

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The Only Significant Variable in any Nutritional “Study”

Over on Andreas Eenfeldt’s blog, there is a long, ongoing back-and-forth battle in the comments on this post between some ignoramus who is repeatedly pointing out how all the “studies” prove that grain (and fiber) are good for everyone, including the other readers of that blog. (He did make an exception for celiacs). Continue reading

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An Interview With Scott Merritt: Farming the Pastured/Grass-Fed Way

One of the folks that I had the privilege of chatting with while I was on the May 2013 Low-Carb Cruise was Scott Merritt, who discovered low-carb about 6 years ago. Since that time, in an effort to gain more control over his own food supply, Scott went to the extreme of purchasing his own farm. Continue reading

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