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By Jim June 15, 2011

I call this site "Life after Carbs" because, of course, there were carbs in my diet at one time -- bucket-loads of carbs, for years on end -- and I'm sure that's true for everyone reading this.  In our culture, and in the vast majority of cultures around the world, you don't start out eating a low-carb diet.  Even the Inuit have flour and sugar, and diabetes and heart-disease. Like most Americans of my generation, I once believed that carbs were my friend and that saturated fat was my enemy. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Reflection Tagged With: cheese, cream, fear, food, health, marriage, mind-set, potatoes

Can watching TV kill you? What if you just listen?

By Jim June 15, 2011

The web is vibrating today with the news (loosely speaking) that TV viewing can kill you.  This is not a metaphoric brain-death that we are talking about here, folks; it is actual, stone-cold, stick-you-in-the-ground death.  Consider the following headlines gleaned this morning from a variety of online media sources via Google News: Too Much TV Linked With Disease and Early Death Alice Park, Time Healthland. TV Time Linked to Diabetes, Death, Crystal Phend, ABC News. TV gives you diabetes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Media Watch Tagged With: death, diabetes, exercise, health, heart disease, JAMA, TV viewing

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