They call themselves Whole Foods but they and John Mackey have embarked upon a quest to be your savior in addition to being your grocer. You want to pay for that, or is your existing church or your own sense of rational propriety enough?
Let me take an aside, because as a libertarian who’s very supportive [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diet Fads'
The Church of Half Foods (Formerly Whole Foods Market)
February 11th, 2010 · 107 Comments · Conventional Wisdom, Diet & Fitness Morons, Diet Fads, Vegan / Vegetarian
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Conform Or Be Cast Out!
January 24th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Diet Fads, Evolutionary Thinking, Health Consequences
Doesn’t matter if you’re low-carb, paleo, or somewhere in between.
You’re weird! You’re a geek! Don’t you understand that unlike all other animals, humans dropped out of the sky a few thousand years ago and operate on principles totally foreign to wild animals; such as unlike the folks who work in the feeding units of your [...]
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The Competition for Stupid Intensifies
January 10th, 2010 · 33 Comments · Diet & Fitness Morons, Diet Fads, Junk "Food", Low Fat Ignorance
Jimmy had this as part of his last Fun Filled Friday edition but I just had to share it. It’s a promo video for Taco Bell’s new "Drive-Thru Diet." Oh wow: 7 items under 9 grams of fat! We’re saved!
The promo is done buy a guy named Chris Rose and features Taco Bell’s new Subway-esque mascot, [...]
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Is There Really Any Such Thing As Low-Fat Eating?
December 11th, 2009 · 38 Comments · Diet & Fitness Morons, Diet Fads, Fat Loss Techniques, Hall of Shame, Low Fat Ignorance
Low-fatters are fooling themselves — especially vegans, vegetarians, and high-fiber advocates
This should be fun.
Ok, I’m going to call stupid right off the bat. No; just ignorant, and this includes some top names. Why? I figure it like this: if Dean Ornish, Joel Fuhrman, John McDougall, T. Collin Campbell and others are ignorant about this when little [...]
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HED: High Everything Diet (If eating garbage is your problem, just eat more of it)
April 28th, 2009 · 49 Comments · "Healthy" Whole Grains, Bad Science, Diet Fads, Principles
Coming to one or more of your favorite blogs’ comments section soon, if the messianic crusade on Peter’s Hyperlipid blog is any indication. The comment thread in question begins here. He has also hit Dr. Eades on this post (there’s no comment links, but the comments in question begin at 25 April 2009, 23:24). Now, Stephan’s blog. In a nutshell, from one of his comments: HED = high-carbs + high-fat + high-calories HED = SAD – sugar – HFCS – PUFAs – TFAs I’m not going to recount all the specifics, as those are contained in the comments — over and over — if you’re interested. I’ve said before that I don’t think carbohydrate is the primary problem (for those without type 2 or borderline, or obsese), and the Kitavans and other H-G groups seem to prove that. In that regard, this HED does seem to eliminate at least some of what migh destroy a high-carb munching Kitavan’s health, i.e., refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, processed vegetable oils (HEDers seem also not too fond of omega-3 PUFA — the Ray Peat influence) and trans fatty-acids. He has also posted that lots of the low-carbers ignore the Kitavans, which is…
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