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‘Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show’ Episode 329: Alan Watson Notes High-Fat, Low-Carb Combats The ‘Cereal Killer’


Alan Watson says there are unintended consequences to low-fat diets

We all sincerely believe that the low-carb message is vitally important for the future of health in America and worldwide. And livin’ la vida low-carb is summarily dismissed as extreme, faddish, and for some unfathomable reason labeled as unhealthy. Meanwhile, millions of people are engaged in controlling their carbohydrate intake, losing weight, feeling fantastic, and getting healthier than they ever thought possible. Today’s podcast interview guest discovered for himself just how healthy low-carb diets really are after seeing the late, great Dr. Robert C. Atkins in a debate with a famous low-fat diet guru.

In Episode 329 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we hear from Alan “Al” Watson, author of Cereal Killer as well as 21 Days to a Healthy Heart: Eat Your Way to Heart Health. He is a big believer in revealing the truth about the real dangers of consuming high-carb foods and their detrimental effect on obesity and disease. Now he is a very strong proponent of a high-fat, low-carb nutritional approach and sharing what he has learned with everyone he can.

Listen to Alan Watson share about his start in a nutritional supplement company, his fateful attendance of a debate between Dr. Atkins and a well-known low-fat diet expert, how his customers got him thinking about the healthiest diet, the folly of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, the idiocy of promoting high-fructose corn syrup as “healthy,” the diabetes pandemic, why people still don’t get the connection between diet and health, the story of his letter to the editor and television show criticizing General Mills got censored, why cholesterol concerns are nonsense, why he wrote the new book to wake up the message more palatable, the low-carb conversion of Dr. Andrew Weil, a possible rally in Washington, DC to bring attention to low-carb science, the craziness of cutting dietary cholesterol, and whether he sees hope for the future of nutrition. It’s good to have someone like Alan Watson on the low-carb side because he is focused on spreading the word!

There are three ways you can listen to Episode 329:

1. Listen at the new iTunes page for the podcast:

2. Listen and comment about the show at the official web site for the podcast:

3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 329 [52:35m]:

NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP THE MESSAGE GOING! If these twice-weekly podcast interviews from the most provocative and thought-provoking diet, fitness, and health experts have helped you in any way over the past few months and years, then help us keep it going by clicking on the DONATE button on the official podcast web site. We love making these exclusive interviews available to you at no charge so that the positive low-carb message can get out there to the people who need to hear it the most. We are so grateful for your generous donations of any amount so we can keep this going all throughout 2010 and well beyond. I have a fantastic group of fresh new expert interview guests lined up for your listening enjoyment and can’t wait for you to hear them! Go to PayPal.com and you can give your gift to the e-mail address livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Your continued financial support and listenership is essential and we THANK YOU so very much for your support!

How’d you like what you heard from Alan Watson? Tell us what YOU thought about him in the show notes section of Episode 329. Pick up a copy of Cereal Killer as well as 21 Days to a Healthy Heart: Eat Your Way to Heart Health and bookmark Alan Watson’s official web site. Coming up on Monday, we’ll have Dr. Wendy Pogozelski (aka Dr. Pogo), a biochemistry professor in New York who understands the importance of carbohydrate restriction. Download her PowerPoint presentation on low-carb diets to get a feel for the work she is doing. Then on Thursday, the charismatic Steve Siebold, author of Die Fat or Get Tough: 101 Differences in Thinking Between Fat People and Fit People. His belief is what you think is what you are and will attempt to motivate you to get going in your own weight loss plan. Plus, we are working on having a special segment with Dr. William Yancy from Duke University to discuss his recent comparison study of low-carb diets with low-fat plus orlistat coming soon. If you have any questions for Dr. Yancy, please e-mail those to me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net.

GOOD NEWS! For those of you who have been e-mailing me about accessing past podcast interviews, we are excited to let you know they are back online again. Shortly after our 200th episode in mid-2009, we had a complete server meltdown at our podcast web site and have since reposted most of our back episodes. But a few have still missing and some even lack the proper show notes. Due to popular public demand, we are now making available the audio of the episodes we haven’t yet had a chance to formally republish. This “Archive” section is where you can get them until we are able to republish these episodes. Once they are reposted, the audio link to the MP3 will be removed from the “Archive” page and become searchable via the search box near the top of each page. Thank you for all of your wonderful support of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show!”

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  • Laurie

    Dear Good Mr. Jimmy Moore, I loved “Cereal Killer”. I love this blog. I finished reading Taubes’ GCBC on June 16, 2008 (I have retained the date in my memory, because I KNEW it was a paradigm changer) and my life has been transformed for the better since then. A new book recommendation for you. “The Other Brain” by R. Douglas Fields, PhD. It’s about the 85% of the cells in our brains that aren’t neurons, but glial cells. Our brains are FATTY and CHOLESTEROLLY. Glia and axons are fatty fat fat fat fat fat fatty fat-hyperlipidinous (my coined word). Axons extend into the body too. All 100,000 miles of them if they were stretched out and laid end to end- that’s a lot of FAT. I just got the book. Can’t put it down, except to comment here. This may be preaching to the choir, but advising humans to eat low-fat, vegetarian is a prescription for brain deterioration and dumb-down. HAND ME THE LARD and the BEEF. I am LIVID that I hadn’t heard about any of this until Taubes’s book fell into my hands, and I teach biochemistry for heaven’s sake! Also, “The Vegetarian Myth” by Lierre Keith is a must read. From her book, I got this phrase, “Wheat is Murder”. If you don’t understand that play on words from the vegetarian version of meat is murd.., read her book and be prepared to have your paradigms inverted.

    CONGRATULATIONS Laurie! Thanks for the info on Dr. R. Douglas Fields…I’ll check him out. Already interviewed Lierre Keith and her interview is coming up on February 15, 2010. :) Keep up the great work!

    –Jimmy

  • Matt

    Jimmy,

    I’m sitting here listening to this podcast. I just posted to Free the Animal noting that you’ve had some great interviews lately and thinking about how things have CHANGED for you in the past year. Your podcasts have really taken a huge leap forward in the past few months. And your “upcoming guests,” the interviews you’ve recently done that are to be aired in the coming couple of months, are really exciting, I’m sure they will be great interviews. Can you please re-post the list, I can’t seem to find it…?

    But the thing is, while you’re doing a great job interviewing guests and landing fantastic subjects, the fact of the matter is that your guest list is just TREMENDOUS because so many wise minds are moving to low carb, publishing fantastic works or working on it, and just flat out flooring people with knowledge. So anyway great job on the interviews but I gotta say your guests are making the show. So many all stars, so little time.

    Alright, I hear you Al talking about about cholesterol numbers and the obsession … It really is a TOTAL obsession with meaningless information. You can have ridiculously good fasting blood glucose: > 60 HDL, < 60 LDL , < 60 TG, and you're going to get statin recommendations if your HDL is high enough and/or Triglycerides LOW enough (what a farce!) to push you over 200 total, even if the LDL isn't measured. The tide has gotta change, and while I respect your silence it has to start with people talking to their doctors about what they know. When I go to the doc to get my blood work checked, regardless of what I ask for, I'm going to get a postcard in the mail with ONE number on it. It makes me not want to get the blood work checked. My total cholesterol was 185 last time it was checked, pre-LC. My Triglycerides were 80. I can almost guarantee that I'm going to get that postcard and have to go on the defensive about my total cholesterol, and have to ASK in the office what my TG is, and then find out it's something stupid good. Why should I even bother getting checked? I WANT to do it, because I want to find out what my TG/HDL ratio is, what my LDL pattern is, but it's not going to be interpreted the way it needs to be interpreted, and then I've got a "bad" cholesterol reading on my record. Maybe my life insurance company will get word about it and jack my rates. Surely I'll get a slap on the wrist from my dr., even though he's on your list of LC doctors, all he told me was that I could do the diet with his blessing … when faced with hard numbers of what the diet will do to my lipids, I don't know what he'll say but I've got a few bucks that says he'll toe the party line.. So hearing your interview makes me WANT to get my bloodwork done even more, and gives me the motivation to make that confrontation.

    I think when faced with this stuff we've got to start throwing studies and logic at the MDs. If you drive my cholesterol down with your drug, if you make me eat cereal and waffles for breakfast because I can't have more than three-fifths of an egg per day, you're going to make me more likely to have a heart attack. You're going to move my TG/HDL ratio up. TG/HDL ratio has been shown to be the single top factor for heart health. TC has been shown to be meaningless, and contains so much haphazard information that it's rendered meaningless. How can an MD, faced with protecting the health of his patients, counter that? How could any self-respecting MD not question his/her long-held beliefs when that question is posed.

    Anyway sorry about the rant, great interview, great work, great job getting guests, and best of luck in the coming year as well. Please re-post your upcoming guest and interview list.

    THANKS for your comments and compliments about the podcast, Matt. You’ve long been a fan of it and I appreciate that so much. I’m coming to the end of my current schedule on February 18 and I’ll be posting the new one with upcoming guests very soon. Thank you again!

    –Jimmy