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Low-Carb Bits & Bytes For August 2010
 A whole lot has been going on lately in the news and blogosphere about health and low-carb living that I’ve just been dying to share with you here at my blog. If you could only see the huge stack of stuff I have that I’d like to be blogging about, I could literally write 100 blog posts from that stuff alone–oh to have more hours in the day! Unfortunately, because of the nature of the beast that is my work schedule with podcast recordings, YouTube videos, and all the day-to-day stuff that warrants my time, there’s just way too much of it and too little time in my schedule to write in-depth individual columns about all that’s been happening. I sincerely appreciate all of the e-mails, tweets, Facebook messages and more from you whenever you see an article of interest, so keep those coming to livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Most of the time I stay on top of what is important and get that stuff out there whenever I can. But to remedy the current backup of stuff to blog about, I’ve decided to share a few quick low-carb bits and bytes from my collection of articles that have caught my attention in August 2010:
We owe a great deal of gratitude to Denise Minger for completely dissecting and dismantling the flaws found in T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study which has been heralded by vegans/vegetarians as the holy grail of nutrition the past few years. Read her unearthing of the claims Campbell makes about meat and disease, fish and disease, and dairy and disease. She didn’t stop there, though! Denise continued by looking at the Tuoli segment of the Chinese population, whether The China Study is fact or fallacy, her response to Campbell’s reaction to her critique, an explanation about why comments on his response were turned off, and a formal analysis and response you won’t want to miss! This stuff is too good to pass up you guys, so make sure you keep reading these outstanding posts from Denise Minger who has done an excellent job of putting it all out there like she has. She’s even inspired some remarkable complementary posts from people like Dr. Mike Eades, Richard Nikoley, Stargazey, Tom Naughton, Chris Masterjohn, Michael Miles, Chris Kresser, Dr. Stephan Guyenet, Robb Wolf, Dr. Kurt Harris, Kristen Michaelis, Kevin Koskella, Ned Kock, and way too many more to mention. Let’s just say the blog echo chamber is in full force and has caught the attention of the low-fat vegans. GREAT JOB everyone and especially Denise Minger!
With the release of that Foster low-carb study earlier this week, another very important bit of research may have been overlooked by people concerned about the connection between low-carb and cancer. Reuters reports on this with a juicy headline I just love: “Cancer cells slurp up fructose, U.S. study finds.” HA! That’s great! And the study is pretty remarkable with UCLA researchers publishing their results in the medical journal Cancer Research discovering that cancer cells thrive when they are fed fructose as food companies scramble to reformulate their products to avoid the bad publicity that’s sure to come. Something tells me Dr. Robert Lustig is grinning from ear to ear about this today.
Speaking of the Foster study, I’ve got something that’ll give you a good laugh. Check out the official response to the study from a dietitian at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). They are a vegan activist front group that likes to cloak themselves under the guise of science, but instead push and promotes anything and everything that has to do with a low-fat, plant-based diet. Incidentally, I’ll be interviewing the President of that organization on Monday, August 16, 2010 for my podcast and it will air on September 20, 2010. Should be quite a chat, eh?
One of my most faithful readers alerted me to S.510 known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that’s moving through the United States Senate right now. There’s even a petition set up by Fast Food Nation author and Food Inc co-producer Eric Schlosser to make your voice heard to your U.S. Senators. If you care about the food supply remaining not only safe but also accessible to the healthy low-carb ingredients you want, then we need to rally behind this legislation to insure that happens!
A column published in a Manhattan magazine called City entitled “Egg On Their Faces” raised a few eyebrows among those who still believe in conventional wisdom regarding a healthy diet. It makes quite a compelling case for the lack of evidence that the upcoming 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans has for promoting a low-fat, plant-based diet. This is the kind of stuff that needs to be shared in major newspapers, radio and television coverage if we could get them to write like this: “As increasingly sophisticated medicine focuses on tailoring therapies to individual needs, sweeping public pronouncements on health have become outdated at best and dangerous at worst. The best advice that government can give citizens is to develop their own diet and exercise regimes, adapted to their own physical circumstances after consultation with their doctors.”
Did you know that “Meat Eaters Pack on More Pounds, Regardless of Calories” according to a new study out of London published in the August 2010 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition? According to the researchers, consuming an isocaloric diet that is rich in meat versus one with very little meat leads to a greater weight gain among the meat-eaters. Say what?! Apparently these so-called researchers don’t even know the basics regarding metabolism and weight. If you cut down on the carbohydrates and begin consuming a high-fat, moderate protein intake of meat, then insulin is controlled and fat loss ensues. That’s pretty basic knowledge that they’re ignoring here. Of course, the smug reporting on this by the AOL contributor Katie Drummond (undoubtedly not a fan of meat-based diets) said this is “bad news for burger fans, but even worse for Atkins adherents.” Ummmm, no it’s not my dear! This Daily Mail column is even more in-your-face towards the late, great Dr. Robert C. Atkins, but the bottom line is our health improvements speak for themselves. God bless you Dr. Atkins!
The highly-awaited debut book by Swedish medical doctor Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt entitled Matrevolutionen is set to release in January 2011. Dr. Eenfeldt has firmly established himself as a low-carb leader in the worldwide debate of ideas regarding proper nutrition and health and is leading the promotion of LCHF (low-carb, high-fat) in his home nation to help change the dialogue about what constitutes a healthy diet. I will be interviewing him about this new book on my podcast show to air near the release date in January 2011. And you can meet Dr. Eenfeldt in person on the 2011 Low-Carb Cruise to Key West, FL, Grand Caymans, and Jamaica. It’s exciting to see such enthusiasm about healthy high-fat, low-carb living.
I could literally keep writing stuff like this, but I’m gonna cut it short right here. Check out my Twitter and Facebook updates for daily news of interest regarding your healthy low-carb lifestyle. It’s a nice problem to have so much information out there to educate the public on this amazing way of eating you and I love and adore so much. As always, send me anything that catches your eye so I can check it out myself. E-mail me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net.
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