It's funny how after you've been eating low-carb for a while, you look at food differently than you did before. Looking over the high-calorie entrees pictured in the Xtreme Eating Awards 2011 (PDF file) from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), I notice the carbs first, which come in the form of bread, buns and fries. There's also a pasta dish and a porterhouse steak accompanied by a big serving of mashed potatoes. The accompanying text from the CSPI focuses on the … [Read more...]
Dealing with the risk of hidden calories in restaurant meals
Half of Americans eat out three or more meals a week, and 12% eat out more than seven meals a week. These statistics are cited by the authors of a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to establish the importance knowing how many calories we're getting in all of those restaurant meals. It turns out we're often getting a significantly different number of calories than we think we're getting, at least where individual menu items are concerned. … [Read more...]
Quick takes: farm subsidies and fork sizes
At Salon, David Sirota examines Why Americans can't afford to eat healthy. He argues that "healthy food could easily be more affordable for everyone right now, if not for those ultimate elitists: agribusiness CEOs, their lobbyists and the politicians they own." Sirota has a point. Something ain't right here, folks. The federal government with its "Food Plate" is urging Americans to eat more vegetables and fruits, less sugar and less refined grains. It promotes whole foods over junk foods. … [Read more...]
Help fight the good fight against dietary dogma and bad science
In a recent article published in Diabetes Health, Hope Warshaw, a nutrition/diabetes consultant and author, calls the idea of controlling type-2 diabetes with a low-carbohydrate diet an "old dogma" that needs to give way to a "new reality." Warshaw's statement ignited a fire-storm of opinion among diabetics and low-carb dieters, including vehement responses from bloggers Dana Carpender, Jimmy Moore, and Tom Naughton. (No one does vehement like Naughton, who wrote two brilliant posts about the … [Read more...]
Healthy weight loss is a patriotic duty
“Today, the state with the lowest obesity rate would have had the highest rate in 1995.” -- Jeff Levi, Ph.D., executive director of Trust for America's Health, in 7 July 2011 press release. Yes, America, you are getting fatter, and sicker, too. So says F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, the latest in a series of annual reports on American weight-gain and fitness by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH). In the past year, obesity rates increased in 16 states and didn't … [Read more...]
Bring on the Bacon Bacon Truck!
I briefly lived on the West Coast in my long-ago and largely mis-spent youth. My most notable encounter with food out there was when a cabbage rolled off a produce truck, bounced on the road, and punched a hole through the grill of my Buick. Mechanics at a Bay Area GM dealership combed the slaw out of my radiator, but said it would take a few weeks to get a replacement grill shipped out from Flint. I said never mind. The Buick and I would just head home. If the Bacon Bacon Truck had … [Read more...]
Health science short-takes
Even in mid-summer, science marches on. Here are a few diet/science related stories that caught my eye this morning. Healthy Lifestyle Makes Women Less Likely to Die Suddenly | Medpagetoday.com The focus of the study being reported on here is how to prevent sudden cardiac death (SCD) in women. The study (published in the July 6 issue of JAMA) followed over 80,000 women, mostly white professionals, aged 30 to 55 at the start, from 1984 to 2010. The participants completed lifestyle … [Read more...]
Why we snack
Do we eat more because we eat more often? Yes, says a study that claims Americans eat 570 more calories per day now than they did 30 years ago because they are eating all of the time. The study's lead author, Professor Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told CNN Health that "the real reason we seem to be eating more (calories) is we're eating often." But is eating frequency all there is to it, or does what a person eats make a difference? To say we are eating … [Read more...]
Make mine water
Since going low-carb, I’ve mostly avoided drinking diet pop or making recipes that include artificial sweeteners. Over the past four months, I’ve downed three bottles of Diet Coke and used three small packets of Stevia (a sugar substitute). I’ve also bought and consumed a four-pack of an Atkins chocolate milk-shake product that contained an artificial sweetener, the only packaged low-carb treat that I've tried. Otherwise, except for berries, I have forgone sweet flavors. It could be I’m … [Read more...]
A calorie is a calorie, baloney is baloney
Here we go again. The "Calories-In, Calories Out" crowd have some new heroes from down-under. They may be reluctant heroes, though. In a study presented at the American Diabetes Association's 71st Scientific Sessions this week in San Diego, New Zealand researchers compare the effectiveness of a low-fat, high-protein diet to a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet followed by groups of over-weight people with type-2 diabetes for two years. Both groups exhibited similar decreases in weight (-4.4 … [Read more...]
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