Archive for April 2014
Get Your Panties in a Bunch: I Hosted Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low Carb Show
I’ve gotta give Jimmy credit for this one. Way to undercut me. As I’ve kept increasing the volume on the general issue over starches—and resistant starches in particular—poking Jimmy regularly, he goes and makes me an offer to host his show, 100% confident that I could not turn it down. Well played, sir! Indeed, I…
Read MoreWell this sucks: RIP Seth Roberts
I had never heard of Seth Roberts before I heard of Art De Vany. Seth interviewed him way back. Google it yourself. It was a good interview. A year or so later, all of a sudden, Seth posted on his blog about something here. I’m not going to put in a bunch of links, but…
Read MoreLove Making Right Out In the Open: Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Rickie Lee Jones
My wife unit arrived with the Nuke (dog) unit this afternoon, bringing April snow with them here in Arnold. CA, at 4K elev. They’re soundly crashed after the 8-hr drive. After three days of solitude up here I’m happy to have them, and I’ve been lost in music. You all know I’m a classic and…
Read More“Evolution Turns The Unavoidable Into The Necessary”
Chew on that title for a second, in the context of survival pressure, selection, and rapid evolution in spurts. Think back to a million years ago, with everyone sitting around wondering where the government and social services were: “how are we going to save and perpetuate genes that can’t manage a hominoid life?” Today, half…
Read MoreHas Our Health Food Fixation Gone Too Far? Watch Me On HuffPo Live Today, 4PM PST
Got an email yesterday afternoon from the lovely and accomplished associate producer Francina, with whom I just had a test video chat to make sure all would be OK. She dutifully grilled me to make sure it’s a match for what she’s putting together. I really appreciate that. So it’s confirmed, and I’ll be amongst…
Read MoreWhat Did Indigenous People Inhabiting the Coldest Places on Earth Really Eat?
Low carb for sure. High fat and most importantly, high protein too, and it’s my mission in this, primarily, to make understood that’s why LC worked for them long term. But, also: they prized an enormous diversity of plants, when available. What follows is some comments in a couple of different posts who have used Google…
Read MoreWhen Confirmation Bias is the Landscape, Dialectics is Your Path to Better Truth
I woke up yesterday to a bit of a surprise. Mike Eades, MD, has a new post up concerning a Twitter debate he had with one of my frequent commenters and a collaborator for a few posts I’ve published here, with a view to better understanding of things like the gut biome (glycans, “animal fibers”),…
Read MoreEverything Update. But Mostly Gut Microbiome and Resistant Starch
I really need to spend way more time getting the book ready for the publisher, in my eyes (now editing chapter 6 of 15, and accelerating); which means, excruciating editing at word, sentence, paragraph, section, “science sidebar,” and chapter levels. Convey the ideas in the fewest words possible. That’s the creed I go by. I…
Read MoreHonestly: Do You Really FEEL GOOD About Having Filed Your Papers Today?
If you feel really good, then good for you; I’ll leave you alone. I’m sure your wager to have others pay for you beyond your ability to pay for yourself will pay off. Your conscience—beyond the dusty items of defeat or resignation—will be clean. You’re fine. Don’t worry, be happy. Human Animals are going to…
Read MoreFree Will and Tabula Rasa is Dead; But So Is Materialism. Connecting Dots.
The Enlightenment idea of Free Will, or Tabula Rasa, is one in which humans are deemed to have been born clean slate, no intrinsic behavioral programming. It’s often juxtaposed with the observed unlearned behavior of animals, called instinct. On the other end are the materialists, who essentially hold that we’re merely a product of genetics…
Read More“Paleo” Is An Exclusive and Not Inclusive Diet: What Are You Eliminating Rather Than Including, Next?
One way to chew on that title is to realize why Low Carbers have had success infiltrating Paleo Ranks. They merely restrict a macronutrient (carbohydrate); so, if they have no allegiance to paleo, They can eat as much cheap soy-oil mayonnaise as they like, while scoffing at your super expensive grassfed butter. It’s an extreme…
Read MoreThe Best General Explanation of Resistant Starch Yet; Eye-Popping 4-Minute Video
There’s nothing like someone making something as simple as possible, but not too simple. It’s perfect, and right after I post this, it will be added to the “Newbies’ Primer” on Resistant Starch. The Hungry Microbiome: why resistant starch is good for you Really, share this one around big time. It’s short & sweet, and…
Read MoreThe American Food Project Rings in For a Commenter and Not Good (Why Resistant Starch Doesn’t Work for Some)
Tatertot Tim put this together for us, in collaboration with Dr. BG (Grace) (link removed) What’s Lurking in your Guts? Potato Starch as Litmus Test for Gut Health Earlier this week I was copied on an email from frequent FTA commenter Nancy, who had some important news. Her American Food Project results were in and…
Read MoreOne Thousand Nails in the Coffin of Arctic Explorer Vilhjálmur Stefansson, and His Spawn
This is yet another Duck Dodgers post…. He and I collaborated over answering Dr. Mike Eades’ tweets in counter to my post: To Reiterate, Just In Case You Missed It: No Elevated Ketone Levels in the Inuit. Duck came up with most of it. ~~~ Ask any ketogenic dieter about the Inuit’s eating habits and they’ll tell…
Read MoreA Little Blog Redesign
Earlier today I put up a bit of a bleg (now taken down). I was trying to install a more modern commenting platform (Jetpack) that features things like users being able to log in with various accounts they have elsewhere, like Twitter, FB, G+. Problem is, it uses different stuff to call up the form,…
Read MoreFlexible Good Food Eating
Just a dump of photos of the sorts of things I’ve been eating mostly, lately. Nope: not particularly paleo, not particularly low carb, not particularly high carb, not particularly high fat, not particularly low fat. Etc. It’s not particularly anything at all. Rather, at different times, places and circumstances, it’s one or more of all…
Read MoreTHE Weirdest thing just happened
I was in the car, listening to the local NPR affiliate as I always do—when not classic rock, or Top-40 Hits. It was a forum with a host and several local professionals; least, that’s what they call themselves—professionals. They really like to use the word a lot to describe themselves. I was told these professionals constitute…
Read MoreHow Barack Obama Becomes The Greatest President In US History Without Killing 750,000 Americans
That figure was news to me. I’ve been winging it with ~650k American “Civil” War dead (don’t you just love that oxymoron?) for two decades of writings when I bring it up. Perhaps that’s what it takes to be the greatest president, in The Land of the Free. Kill lots of people that lots of other…
Read MoreOne Thousand Words
I miss your Divinity terribly, sir. Ok, 1,006 words.
Read MoreI’ll Be Hosting the Famous Livin’ La Vida Low Carb Show
I’ve gotta give Jimmy credit for this one. Way to undercut me. As I’ve kept increasing the volume on the general issue over starches—and resistant starches in particular—poking Jimmy regularly, he goes and makes me an offer to host his show, 100% confident that I could not turn it down. Well played, sir! Indeed, I…
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