Category Archives: Nutritional Research

Your Small Intestine Has Taste Buds!

On last year’s low-carb cruise, one of the celebrities that I got to visit with over dinner was Dr. Mary Vernon, Past President of the American Society of Bariatric Medicine. Continue reading

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New Meta-Study Shows High Correlation of HbA1c with Heart Attack Risk

In a recent article by Diabetes blogger Jenny (I’ve added her to my blogroll), she covers several miscellaneous studies on nutrition and drugs. She started Read more […]

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Irresponsible Hachet Job on Low-Carb Diets

There is a recent abstract in Pubmed that announces in the title that low-carb diets are really bad for diabetics. Really scary stuff! Especially if Read more […]

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Fructose — Metabolic Poison

One of the things that I have learned by following a low-carb diet for the last 12 years is that not all carbohydrates are the same. Some are relatively Read more […]

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What Passes for “Science” in the Field of Nutrition

I started noticing problems with nutritional “research” back in 1999, when I started a low-carb diet, and experienced several remarkable health improvements that the mainstream medical community solemnly assured me could not happen. Continue reading

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