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Tom Roddy was diagnosed with brain cancer in April 2009

This was a sad week in the low-carb community when one of the most innovative leaders in the online health retail industry was taken from us at the age of 43. Tom Roddy, President and Co-Founder of Internet-based nutrition products retailer Netrition since 1997, died on November 9, 2009, at Johns Hopkins Hospital after battling grade 4 glioblastoma brain cancer since his diagnosis in April. According to Tom’s brother Bernie, Tom was a “very private person” who chose not to disclose this very serious illness with the public.

“I’m sure this news will come a great shock to many of you who knew him,” says Bernie Roddy, who has served as Vice-President of Netrition. “It was his request that his illness be kept as private as possible.”

And despite his very serious condition over the past six months, Tom Roddy remained an active part of guiding the future of the company he had invested so much of the past twelve years of his life to.

“Netrition was Tom’s vision and even in his final days, he continued to impart his ideas on how it should grow,” Bernie added. “His vision will continue to live even after his death.”

I never met Tom Roddy in person, but I did know him through e-mail and spoke with him on the telephone a couple of times. All of my one-on-one dealings with this man confirmed to me that he was a good, decent, and generous person who sought to provide his customers with quality products to enhance their healthy lifestyle. His loss will be difficult for those who were closest to him, but his legacy will live on for many more years to come.

You can view Tom’s obituary by clicking here and please share your thoughts and prayers for the Roddy family by signing his guest book.

Funeral services will take place this Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 11:15 am at the McVeigh Funeral Home, 208 North Allen Street in Albany, New York. Memorial contributions in Tom’s memory can be sent to The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research.

Please make checks payable to:
Musella Foundation
1100 Peninsula Blvd
Hewlett, NY 11557

Feel free to share your thoughts on Tom Roddy’s passing in the comments section below.

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David Brown, Dr. Rod Jackson, and I discuss saturated fat effects

Knowing what you believe and why you believe it, being passionate about sharing the truths you have learned through doing your own independent research, and not being intimidated by the so-called health “experts” out there who pretend to know all there is to know about diet, health, and nutrition are all hallmarks of the people who are a part of the enthusiastic and informed low-carb community. I am proud to walk side-by-side with people like this who are unafraid and unabashed in their sincere desire to expose the fraud of conventional wisdom regarding healthy living while spreading the facts about why the high-fat, low-carbohydrate nutritional approach is working so incredibly well for people who desire optimal health. One such person who exemplifies the essence of communicating the low-carb message effectively to those in positions of power and influence within the health industry is David Brown.

Describing himself as a “self-styled nutrition science analyst,” Brown has certainly taken on a rather unique approach to bringing about change to the vice-grip that the inner circle of the health establishment has on public opinion regarding what healthy living is. Through his “Nutrition Education Project” blog and direct interactions with nutritional opinion-makers worldwide, he is offering up non-threatening messages that include many of the concepts you and I already understand about the inseparable and undeniable relationship between the right kind of diet and disease prevention. You might recall in March 2009 when I wrote about when David called out Dr. David Katz for his insane comments about the Frank Sacks study on calories published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Well, he’s at it again, this time in casual response to something intriguing he saw on the American Society For Nutrition web site.

Here’s what he wrote to me:

Hi Jimmy,

I stumbled across two interesting blog posts by students on the American Society for Nutrition web site. The first begins:

“Truly, I am neither an obesity researcher nor a public health policy expert. But I do read material on this issue every now and then, and recently, I asked myself, why? United States is blessed with enormous research resources, facilities and funding, but still why can’t we address the issue of obesity?”

OBESITY: A Mad Horse Without Any Bridles by Bobban S.

His question is at least partially answered in this second post entitled “The Milk Debate” in which the author (Jovana K.) discussed the connection between low-fat dairy and obesity. She began:

“Over the past decade the use of low fat milk has become more prominent than the use of whole milk because there is substantial scientific evidence that consumption of foods high in fat causes weight gain and increases the risk of heart disease and cancer. However, there is some controversy over whether processed low-fat pasteurized milk can meet the needs of developing offspring and whether it should be consumed during pregnancy and development.”

Several paragraphs later:

“According to a cohort study of 12,829 US children aged 9 to 14 years, weight gain is associated with excess calorie intake and consumption of low fat or skim milk, but is not associated with drinking whole milk products. This finding although surprising is consistent with some animal findings. Pigs fed reduced-fat milk gain weight easily while pigs fed whole milk stay lean. Male rats fed whole milk had significantly lower concentrations of plasma triglycerides, very low-density lipoproteins and apolipoprotein B than rats fed low fat milk. The effects of whole milk on lipid profile and body composition are not well understood, but the process of removing fat from milk may in part be responsible for some of the observed effects. Milk is an emulsion of butterfat globules and water-based fluid. Butterfat contains unique nutrients that support thyroid function and help the body develop muscle rather than fat…”

Hmm. Butterfat supports thyroid function and helps the body develop muscle. So why in the world are school children urged to consume low-fat milk laced with sugar-sweetened flavorings? Could it be because the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have both declared that saturated fat is a health hazard?

In New Zealand the prejudice against saturated fat is intense. Dr. Rod Jackson is Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland.

He says in this news story, “We have a health tax on alcohol and cigarettes and there should be a health tax on butter. It’s the most poisonous commonly consumed food in New Zealand. It’s about the purest form of saturated fat you can eat and it has no protein and no calcium. Butter has had all the good things taken out and just left the poison.”

With that kind of pressure, it’s not surprising that a New Zealand biotech firm, ViaLactia, would screen millions of bovines in search of a cow that produces low-fat milk. They found one and named her Marge because butter made from her milk is spreadable straight from the fridge, rather like margarine.

Note that I am copying this to Professor Jackson and for his benefit I’ll say that I consume between two and three pounds of butter a week. I also drink about a gallon and a half of raw, whole milk and eat cheese, sour cream, yogurt, and cottage cheese. Only the cottage cheese is the low-fat version. I’m 62, have a body mass index of 20, and am lean and muscular. We have an 18-year-old Down syndrome boy who is also lean and muscular which is surprising considering his sedentary habits. We put lots of butter on his vegetables.

If Professor Jackson were to listen to an 89 minute lecture by Robert Lustig, MD entitled “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” then perhaps he would realize that the real poison is sugar.

Regards,
David Brown

See what I mean about David and his desire to share the truth to anyone he can find to share it with? He’s quite thorough in his correspondence and lays out all the details without resorting to any unnecessary negative verbiage to make his points. Interestingly, oftentimes he is ignored with no response whatsoever from the people he copies in on these messages, but not this one. Dr. Jackson was so intrigued by what he read from David that he decided to hop in on the conversation over saturated fat. Here’s what he wrote:

Dear David and Jimmy – thank you for copying me in on your discussion. I think it is important to distiguish between the different effects of fat on health. Saturated fat is the underlying cause of coronary heart disease – the single biggest killer in the western world. Fortunately most Americans are aware of this and over the last 40 years consumption of saturated fats, including butter, which is almost pure saturated fat, have fallen dramatically. Over the same period coronary heart disease deaths have fallen by almost 75%. No other common disease has fallen by so much so quickly.

However it is possible that replacing high fat food with low fat high sugar food may be responsible in part for the increase in obesity. So we are living much longer now because of the reduction in saturated fat consumption but the price we nay have paid for this is obesity.

Regards,
Rod Jackson

Where’s the proof about this, Dr. Jackson? Just saying that saturated fat leads to heart disease which is killing people more than anything else in the United States doesn’t make it so. And, unless I’m missing something, heart disease is worse than it has ever been before and even took my 41-year old brother Kevin from me in 2008. Reading this response from Dr. Jackson, I couldn’t resist sharing my reaction to his assertions about saturated fat with the health improvements I have seen personally in my own life since beginning a high-fat, low-carb program over five years ago. Here was what I wrote back to him:

Thank you David and Mr. Jackson! However, I concur with David’s personal consumption of saturated fat-filled foods and you can include coconut oil, pastured eggs, grass-fed beef, heavy cream, butter, and more that regularly find their way into my diet. Keep in mind that this saturated fat consumption is in conjunction with a reduced carbohydrate diet and a moderate intake of protein.

In fact, the macronutrient ratio of fat/protein/carbs in my diet is likely around 70/25/5 as a percentage of total caloric intake. And today I am healthier than I have ever been before with lipid numbers that would blow the minds of most of the nutrition “experts” around the world who are stuck on the “saturated fat will kill you” mantra that is truly unfortunate. David is 100% correct about this. We need to stop vilifying saturated fat (read the great research being conducted by Dr. Jeff Volek from the University of Connecticut on this subject) and instead turn our attention to the inflammatory components of foods made with sugar or that turn to sugar in the body (starch, for example).

In light of your observations regarding the reduction of saturated fat in the American diet being replaced with high-carb sugary ones, what do you propose the saturated fat be replaced with? This is a curious discussion and gets to the very heart of the question at hand. THANK YOU for your feedback and I appreciate your perspective.

Jimmy Moore

I was sincerely interested in hearing what foods Dr. Jackson believed should be consumed to replace the saturated fat in our diet that he believes is so dangerous to our health. If he agrees that the high-carb foods that have typically replaced the saturated fat consumption are bad, then what SHOULD people be eating instead? Here’s what he wrote:

Hi again guys – I think you may very well be onto something regarding the fat-obesity association which is currently unexplained by the scientific community. Certainly declining national fat consumption has not led to declining fatness! However, with all due respect to your personal experience with saturated fat, which cannot really be considered as scientific evidence and with respect to the relatively small numbers of studies with results that conflict with the saturated fat-coronary heart disease (CHD) relationship, its worth looking more broadly at the evidence and it is particularly important not to confuse the saturated fat-CHD relationship with the fat-obesity relationship.

The totality of the evidence on millions of people from basic biochemistry through metabolic ward studies, large scale cohort studies, randomised controls and finally the plummeting coronary heart disease death rates across the western world in line with major falls in saturated fat consumption and blood cholesterol levels, provides better evidence for the saturated fat – CHD relationship than anything else in medicine. I have spent over 25 years reviewing this evidence and it is important not to cherry pick the individual studies that suggest it is not true. There will always be some conflicting evidence – it is the nature of science – and the modern way to address this is to undertake systematic reviews of all the high quality evidence.

With regard to your question about what to replace saturated fat with, for our heart-health, the scientific answer is fortunately available – mono-unsaturated fats like olive oil etc. What science has yet to answer is the best diet to reduce obesity. Low glycaemic index diets are looking better than the alternatives and as I am sure you know, fats have a low glycaemic index.

It is great to correspond with people who are passionate about health but it concerns me greatly that you are unable to accept the overwhelming evidence against saturated fat and may die lean but prematurely. I am also concerned about you misguiding others. The advice people like me have been giving governments and the public about reducing their risk of heart disease over the last 25 years seems to have been extremely successful. Of course disease is caused by combinations of multiple factors and we all know about the health 100 year-old who has smoking every day (or eaten a pound of butter) from the age of 12 years. But you need to put all the evidence together. I am sure sugar is harmful but the issue is not saturated fat versus sugar.

Best wishes and good health,
Rod Jackson

OUCH! How’s that for a slap-in-the-face to those of us who are livin’ la vida low-carb? I’ll admit I was taken aback at first by his brazenness in describing what healthy saturated fat consumption will allegedly do in bringing about my early demise. But you gotta ask what planet is this guy living on to STILL believe this is true in light of all we are learning from science about the health properties of saturated fat? At the same time, it’s really not surprising to see such a dogmatic belief system creeping its way into nutritional science which has been built on a bald face lie all these decades later since the days of Ancel Keyes and the like in the 1950′s. I couldn’t help but write back to Dr. Jackson yet again:

Thanks for your concern, Dr. Jackson. But while my comments are only anecdotal, I can tell you that I’m not even referring to the weight loss benefits of high-fat, low-carb eating. My objective with everything I am doing on behalf of high-fat, low-carb diets is entirely about health and the massive improvements this way of eating produces.

In my own health, I’ve seen my triglycerides plummet from 300 to below 50, my HDL rise from low 20s to 70, my BP fall from 180/90 to 125/75, and most recently I had a heart scan to see how much plaque build-up was in my arterial walls of my heart. The result? ZERO!

Again, I acknowledge I am but one example, but I hear from people every single day with similar numbers and it’s difficult to ignore the evidence even if it doesn’t come from the scientific community. I highly encourage you to read more about the health benefits of consuming saturated fats from people like Dr. Mary Enig, Dr. Jeff Volek, Dr. Stephen Phinney, Gary Taubes and many more. I can appreciate your concern, but it is quite unwarranted in light of all we are learning. Thanks for your response.

Jimmy Moore

The best case scenario I was hoping for from Dr. Jackson would have been for him to take me up on my suggestion to learn more from those experts I cited, but instead he chose to withdraw from the conversation accusing me of being too sure of what I believe and unwilling to compromise or bend. Well, when you have the truth on your side, there’s really no sense in relinquishing what you know to be facts. Here’s what he wrote:

Hi Jimmy – it is probably best if this is my last response, because it would seem to me that perhaps you have already made up your mind about this. Unfortunately the plural of anecdote is not evidence and whoever told you that they can tell from a scan that you have zero plaque is not telling you the truth because every adult human being has plaque in their arteries.

With regard to the people you quote, I have been told about several of them before and have read some of their work. Journalists like Taubes make a living selling books and you won’t sell books with titles like “Everything scientists saying about saturated fat and heart disease for the last 50 years is true!” I don’t mean to be disrespectful but my two areas of expertise over the last 25 years have been heart disease epidemiology and interpreting evidence and the book of his I looked at [GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES] didn’t rate well on even a very basic critique.

I hope you are one of those lucky people who doesn’t get premature CHD from eating too much saturated fat. You have obviously been very successful with your weight loss and it would be a real shame if you dropped dead prematurely of heart disease. I am sure many people have already told you that your hero, Atkins, was not a great role model for longevity. That’s a bit ‘below the belt’ as I am slipping into anecdote, but as the ‘evidence’ you have mentioned in your emails has been mainly anecdote, perhaps its useful to remind you of this. Anyway it has been fun communicating with you.

Best wishes and good luck,
Rod

And with that final blow, this roundtable discussion over saturated fat came to an abrupt end. It’s always curious to see how people like Dr. Jackson can pretend to remain objective about the supposed relationship between saturated fat consumption and coronary heart disease while maintaining such an obvious disdain for basic decency and professionalism in corresponding with someone challenging his positions. This is one of the reasons we fight an uphill battle attempting to change the hearts and minds of the general public about the nutritional untruths they have been fed. But you gotta appreciate David Brown for stirring the pot from time to time to get these “experts” to think a little.

Wanna share your thoughts with Dr. Rod Jackson about how healthy saturated fat consumption has been for you? E-mail him at rt.jackson@auckland.ac.nz and share your story. You can also write to David Brown to thank him for his courageous efforts in communicating nutritional truths to those who need to hear it the most. As always, I welcome your feedback about this in the comments section below! What do you think about what Dr. Jackson had to say about saturated fat leading to heart disease and death? This should be a fun conversation.

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It’s time to restore some “balance” into low-carb news and health headlines

The news and information about the wonderful world of carbohydrate restriction along with the accompanying health headlines that dominate the media never slow down for anyone or anything. Stuff just keeps percolating out there and I try to keep an eye on it for you to sort the good from the bad. Here are just a few of the most interesting low-carb news and health headlines for September 2009.

STUDY: TYPE 2 DIABETICS NOT MEETING NUTRITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

In the “Gee, I Wonder Why” department comes new research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine that claims Type 2 diabetics are not following the dictates of the diet pushed on them by advocacy groups like the American Diabetes Association. GOOD! With idiotic recommendations like this why would they?

Looking at a survey of the food intake by 2,757 Type 2 diabetics, the researchers found that 93 percent ate more than the recommended percentage of calories from dietary fat, 85 percent consumed more saturated fat than the recommendation called for, and 92 percent took in more sodium than they were supposed to. Less than half got in the recommended minimums on fruits, veggies, dairy, and grains which are supposed to be “healthy” for them.

But you know what? This is FANTASTIC news! Wanna know why? Because it means enough diabetics are tired of being lied to about their health that they are taking control of their disease by consuming a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carb diet that naturally cures the manifestations of their Type 2 diabetes. Kudos to the diabetics who understand the importance of carb control in keeping their blood sugar and insulin levels stabilized. And boo hiss to these idiot researchers who think there’s some kind of “education” deficiency at work here. Uh, no. It’s called enlightenment and hopefully it will reach them someday soon.

This study was published in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

MEN’S HEALTH: WHAT IF BAD FAT IS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU?

I love how Men’s Health magazine is so unashamed to share the nutritional truth for people in their columns thanks to people like Adam Campbell and others who aren’t stuck in dietary dogma. This is yet another fine example of honest journalism that is so refreshing to read in such a mainstream health publication. Dealing with the issue of saturated fat, which has been mistakenly tagged with the “bad fat” label alongside trans fats for far too long, we see fantastic evidence supporting the inclusion of MORE saturated fat in the diet to maximize health.

The column goes through the history of how saturated fat got such a bad rap when Ancel Keys made his famous proclamation in 1953 that fat increased cholesterol which led to heart disease fatalities. This “diet-heart” hypothesis stuck quickly in the minds of people because on the surface it seemed to make sense. But what if it was wrong? Dead wrong!

Today this notion that saturated fat is the culprit in heart disease and worse is predicated on a big fat lie which we learned about in Tom Naughton’s 2009 FAT HEAD documentary. Nevertheless, virtually every major health organization from the American Heart Association to the American Diabetes Association trumpets the “diet-heart” hypothesis as the gospel truth because by golly it must be after all this time, right? WRONG!

The seldom talked about FACTS about saturated fat is they almost always raise HDL “good” cholesterol, lower triglycerides, and provide better heart protection for people who combine their consumption of it with a simultaneous reduction in carbohydrate intake. Nevertheless, fat-phobia lives on in America despite numerous evidence to the contrary cited in this column that dietary fat is completely irrelevant when it comes to heart disease. How do you right a ship that’s been way off course for decades? Certainly, mainstream articles like this one in Men’s Health will go a long way towards educating the public and someday we’ll look back on these “low-fat” days shaking our heads wondering how we could have all been so deceived.

ARE THESE REALLY ‘CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DIETS’?

Speaking of cholesterol, you’re gonna get nonsense like this out of the mainstream health for the most part because they are stuck on the notion that fats and saturated fats specifically are the devil. This column is a mixed bag, though, because they accurately point to the excessive carbohydrates and promote people find “the exact type” to eat. Hmmmm, what would that be? Oatmeal, oat bran, kidney beans, brussel sprouts, apples, pears, psyllium, barley, blueberries and prunes. Oh yummy!

While some of those foods are acceptable on a low-carb lifestyle change, some are not because they contain way too many carbohydrates. This notion that you need the fiber in some of these foods is just a ruse — many times there are a LOT more net carbs (the number of carbohydrates AFTER subtracting fiber from the total) than fiber itself. Giving a health halo to these foods while neglecting their impact on a wide range of health issues is wrong.

Additionally, the recommendation to “watch the quantity of red meat you eat” is even more evidence of the ignorance that exists out there. Yes, omega-3 fats are important as noted in the column, but don’t skimp on the eggs just because they have dietary cholesterol in them. The cholesterol myth is scaring people into thinking they will die from clogged arteries if they don’t lower their fat and cholesterol consumption, but nothing could be further from the truth. LDL and total cholesterol aren’t nearly as important as the triglyceride/HDL ratio as I discuss in my upcoming new book 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb. This information is too important to let it be twisted and distorted by those who have been severely misinformed.

HEATING HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP CREATES HARMFUL SUBSTANCE

We already high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is bad news for your health, but it could be even worse for you when it is heated up. This new study published in the August 27, 2009 issue of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that bees in warmer climates fed HFCS to help increase honey production can ingest dangerous levels of a poisonous substance to them called hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Upwards of one-third of the U.S. honeybee population has been killed off likely from the consumption of HMF created by heated HFCS. Now, if it’s doing all this to bees, then what the heck is it doing to the humans who are consuming it in just about every sugary soda and snack food on supermarket shelves today?

JIMMY MOORE’S ONE-HOUR INTERVIEW ON SEAN CROXTON’S RADIO SHOW

Mr. Sean “Underground Wellness” Croxton did a fabulous job asking me questions about my healthy low-carb lifestyle and it was so much fun! Take some time to listen to this one from start to finish and be encouraged in your low-carb way of life. There are people on your side!

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR LOOKS AT OBESITY-SUGARY SODA CONNECTION

California state Sen. Alex Padilla has thrown down the gauntlet and plans on holding hearing beginning in November about the link between sugary soda and the inevitable obesity that follows. As the chairman of the California Senate’s Select Committee on Obesity and Diabetes, Padilla is a powerful lawmaker who certainly is sharing concerns that many of my readers have about the problem with soda consumption in America. These hearings coincide with a new declaration by the American Heart Association in August who said people would be wise to cut back on their sugar consumption and more specifically their sugary sodas to keep calories in check. It’s so much more than calories, though. We’re trying to control blood sugar and insulin especially which can lead to diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and death. Kudos to Sen. Padilla for bringing attention to this issue. Maybe I should try to get him on my podcast show to discuss this move legislatively in the state of California. Meanwhile, federal lawmakers are considering a tax on sugary soda to help pay for health care costs associated with sugar consumption.

VITAMIN D: A NATURAL REMEDY FOR THE SWINE FLU?

Yes, we know all about the health benefits of increasing your Vitamin D levels in your body, but could it protect against the dreaded H1N1 virus known as swine flu? With people getting flu shots left and right around the world, the Public Health Agency of Canada is taking a look at how Vitamin D supplementation could be a part of the reason why some people are prone to getting this dreaded virus. In 2008 when my Vitamin D levels were at 42, I knew I needed to do something about it. So I started taking 10,000 IU daily of Vitamin D3 gelcaps and in just six months my levels rose to 68. I’ve been taking about 4,000-5,000 IU daily ever since and HIGHLY recommend it for a variety of reasons. If you can possibly protect yourself from the ravages of swine flu just by supplementing with and getting adequate Vitamin D from the sun, why wouldn’t you?

AN OBESE WOMAN WHO MADE MILLIONS FROM AN ‘EXTREME DIET’

Hmmm, at first glance you might think I’d be referring to a well-known diet scam artist who I’ve featured here at my blog many times, but alas this is yet another one who hails from the Bahamas and runs a weight loss company called LighterLife. There’s just one problem — the owner Jackie Cox weighs nearly 200 pounds on her 5’2″ body frame. Take a look at her diet plan and see if it looks familiar: ultra-low-calorie, marketed as “fast, simple and safe,” and has led to a series of health complications. Although this isn’t the Kimkins diet, it sure sounds a lot like it. But now with the tragic death of a 34-year-old woman who was following the diet, it makes me all the more passionate about getting the word out about any and every diet schemer whose only desire is to make a buck off the emotional need for weight loss that people feel. It’s sickening beyond belief and I for one won’t stand for it without a fight!

MICHAEL POLLAN COLUMN ON THE DIETARY CONNECTION TO HEALTH

This is why I believe President Obama should have taken my recommendation and chosen Michael Pollan to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture in his Cabinet. The man knows what he’s talking about (as you can hear in this YouTube video) and pens a masterful response to those who think our health care crisis has to do with the logistics of the care itself. But like I shared in this blog post a couple of weeks ago, we don’t have a problem with health care as much as we do a preventative disease epidemic that could be brought under control if people would begin making better choices for the sake of their weight and health.

Diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are ripping through Americans at record levels and yet all of these could be improved or completely eradicated by a good low-carb lifestyle change. Pollan echoes that three out of every four dollars spent on health care today goes to a chronic disease that is preventable. Hundreds of billions of dollars going down the tube because somebody chooses to keep drinking their sugary sodas and downing their Little Debbie snack cakes to “save money.” Who are we kidding?

If universal government-run health care is passed into law, then get ready for the food industry to feel the brunt of it because government health leaders already know what is gobbling up precious medical expense dollars in this country. This could be both revolutionary and frightening at the same time when a bureaucrat will decide whether my low-carb diet is healthy enough for me to be consuming if I want to have quality care if and when I need it. Of course, if it reigns in all the sugary foods and beverages people are consuming, it could be a good thing. Pollan’s column makes you think!

By the way, healthy employees should be rewarded for taking good care of themselves. Isn’t that fair?

IS HEART DISEASE ANSWER IN ‘GOOD CALORIES BAD CALORIES’?

Maybe I’m starting to make a positive impact on some of my podcast guests who didn’t necessarily embrace all the concepts of healthy low-carb living when I interviewed them, but they’re coming around. Take Dr. Steve Parker, for example. This column appeared on Monica Reinagel’s “Nutrition Data” blog where Dr. Parker refers to Gary Taubes’ book Good Calories Bad Calories as “a brilliant book” that physicians should read. He expressed concern that this book which has been heralded by low-carbers and non-low-carbers alike has been “ignored by many academic establishment-type nutritionists, physicians, and researchers.” Dr. Parker went on to say that Taubes’ book is “well-argued and supported by numerous scientific references,” and yet reviews of it do not appear in any of the major medical journals that are out there. Isn’t it great that medical professionals are finding this treasure and now encouraging their colleagues to learn from it, too?

SAM’S CLUB CARRYING ALL-NATURAL STEVIA SWEETENER

The plant-based stevia sweetener is becoming more and more prevalent in mainstream grocery stores and big box stores like Sam's Club. It brought a big smile on my face the other day when I saw this box of stevia packets being sold at my local Sam's. I believe it won't be long until my sponsor Truvia will be available in restaurants and in foods and beverages. That would be a whole heckuva lot better than the aspartame (NASTY-tame!) they put in just about everything right now!

FDA BUSTS CHEERIOS’ HEART-HEALTHY CLAIM

Well, hallelujah, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration calls the bluff of General Mills when they claim that their Cheerios cereal will “lower cholesterol” by 4% because of the so-called “healthy” whole grains in them. The nauseating “nutrition expert” lady used in the news story about this is absolutely clueless. Christine and I ran into this when we were walking through Wal-mart recently:

It’s so shameful that people buy into this cereal diet sham that will only make you fatter and unhealthier than ever before. If you are lowering your cholesterol, it’s not nearly as significant as what happens when you start livin’ la vida low-carb. Triglycerides plummet, HDL “good” cholesterol rises, and you become much healthier than you ever will eating cereal. PERIOD!

SUSTAINABLE FOOD WEB SITES EDUCATE CONSUMERS ABOUT THEIR FOOD

There’s a movement underway in America where more and more people are beginning to embrace the whole concept of sustainable, locally grown food thanks to groups like Sustainable Table. Rather than settling for the highly-manufactured and poorly fed and grown food found at most grocery stores, many people are turning to their local farmers and farmer’s markets to get quality foods to feed their families. A couple of resources to help you find the good food in your area include The Eat Well Guide where you can find where local sustainable organic food is in your area as well as The Global Grocer so you can see the likely origin and other facts about the fresh, frozen, or shelved foods in their supermarket. For example, garlic consumed in the United States over the past 15 years has gone from being a crop mostly grown in the U.S. to one largely imported from China. EEEK! Use these empowering web sites early and often!

USA TODAY NAMES 6,000 ‘MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCS’–NO LOW-CARBERS?

You have got to be kidding me! The #1 newspaper in America is USA Today and they put together a list of the “Most Influential Doctors” as compiled by an analysis done by medical information firm Qforma. They identified about a group of top physicians treating patients in chronic and prevalent disease states, including specialty areas like hypertension, high cholesterol, asthma and diabetes in over 300 metropolitan areas across the United States. Qforma says they wanted to “recognize some of our country’s less visible yet highly remarkable community physicians who apply their expertise to help patients every day.”

So surely on this voluminous list of the best of the best with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and asthma issues there will be at least one low-carb doctor, right? NOPE! Look up the state of New York where the legendary Dr. Richard Bernstein who has been treating patients with diabetes for decades practices medicine. He HAS to be listed there guaranteed, right? Not a chance. How about the amazing low-carb practitioner Dr. Mary C. Vernon helping diabetes patients in Kansas? She’s not on the list either. And neither is low-carb researcher and physician Dr. Eric Westman in North Carolina who is lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, and insulin numbers in diabetics, too. With all the dramatic improvements that are being seen in the lives of patients in the offices of carbohydrate-restriction medical professionals all across the country, isn’t it odd that not a single one is included in this list of the most influential? Something is wrong with this picture!

NEW NUTRISYSTEM D PROGRAM IS A LOW-CARB DIABETIC DIET

Low-carb is taking hold in the weight loss community and the major players are noticing the trend. That’s why Nutrisystem has decided to create a “NEW program clinically tested to lose weight, to help lower blood sugar and control your type 2 diabetes.” Gee, I wonder what that could be? You guessed it, it’s livin’ la vida low-carb, baby, described as “a low-Glycemic Index program full of good carbs and fiber to help control your blood sugar levels and keep you feeling fuller longer.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, market it however you need to about the supposedly “good” carbs, but we know it is carbohydrate-restriction which has been proven in major studies like this one to control A1c, blood sugar, and insulin levels while producing weight loss in Type 2 diabetics. This is nothing new here, but it’s good to see a company like Nutrisystem lending credence to what works for people with diabetes.

‘QUESTIONS ARE THE ANSWER’ CONNECT PATIENTS AND DOCTORS

On the heels of me sharing with you about a new FREE service called MedEfficio last week, I have another one to share with you direct from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and their new “Questions Are the Answer” web site. Encouraging patients to get more involved with their health care, this web site gives you the kinds of questions you should ask your doctor the next time you go to see him. A checklist of questions are available for when you get a prescription, when you have a medical test, when you’ve been diagnosed with a condition, when you are considering treatment options, when surgery is recommended, when you are looking into getting health insurance, when you are wanting to find a new doctor or hospital, and whether you need long-term care or not. It lets you also create your own questions that can be checked off as you ask each one directly to your provider. This is a really neat service that goes hand-in-hand with MedEfficio.

9 YEAR-OLD EPILEPTIC FED ICE CREAM AND STEAK TO CONTROL SEIZURES

Last month I featured a podcast interview with Dr. Deborah Snyder about the miraculous effects of putting children with epilepsy on a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet to control their seizures and now we have this story highlighting a beautiful little girl named Lucy who gets to eat foods like nuts, low-carb pancakes, butter, cheese, oils, steak, and sugar-free ice cream all day while keeping her carbs to around 20g daily. What an EXCELLENT story about the ketogenic diet, including the fact that “the diet puts the body into fat-burning mode, so it produces complex chemical compounds called ketones that block seizures in the brain.” Can you imagine if future reporting of low-carb diets sounded this positive? Don’t hold your breath, but KUDOS to UK Mail journalist Luke Salkeld for sharing the truth.

SUGAR VETERAN COMBATS SWEDISH LOW-CARB MOVEMENT IN LANCET

Finally, I’ve been keeping my eye on the continuing developments on behalf of livin’ la vida low-carb in the nation of Sweden where low-carb heroes like Dr. Annika Dahlqvist are fighting strong on behalf of carbohydrate-restriction. It appears this has made an impact on a former sugar industry veteran named Jim Mann who wrote an opinion piece in the September 5, 2009 issue of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet where he expressed his honest thoughts about the whole LCHF (low-carb, high-fat) nutritional movement happening in the nation of Sweden right now.

Mann’s conclusion: “There are some lessons here for international agencies, professional organisations, and governmental and regulatory bodies. Perhaps one of the most important is the need for internationally accepted criteria for evidence-based nutrition guidelines as there are for evidence-based medicine.”

Welcome to the fray finally, Mr. Mann. It appears from the post on the blog of Swedish low-carb advocate Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt that you’re just now coming around to enlightenment after pushing high-carb, low-fat diets for many years. This is GREAT news for international supporters of low-carb living and I encourage others to keep speaking out about what is happening right now with LCHF in Sweden.

That’s all the low-carb news and health headlines I have for you right now, but we’ll have more to share again soon! Send me your items of interest for inclusion in future posts by e-mailing me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. I’ll try to continue keeping you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge nutritional information out there, so THANK YOU for reading!

It’s been a busy summer for me, but the low-carb news and health headlines haven’t slowed down a bit. I’ve got a lot to share, so let’s just get right into it!

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It’s been a busy summer for me, but the low-carb news and health headlines haven’t slowed down a bit. I’ve got a lot to share, so let’s just get right into it!

DIETITIAN RECOMMENDING FAST FOOD FOR HEALTH ON TODAY SHOW

Registered dietitian Elizabeth Ward appeared on the Today Show recently to talk to host Matt Lauer about how to eat “healthy” while traveling on the road. Watch the video to hear how she focuses so heavily on the calories while pushing foods with a load of carbohydrates. This shows we still have a very long way to go at least with those who are placed front and center as the “experts” on nutrition in America. Seeing things like this just makes me all the more vigilant.

STUDY: HIGH-FAT DIET MAKES YOU ‘STUPID AND LAZY’

You gotta love the gumption it takes to run a headline calling people who eat high-fat as “stupid and lazy,” but there it is. And they’re basing it on a so-called “study” conducted on rats! Riiiiiiigght! They’re the same as humans–do they think we’re all a bunch of idiots? Well, if we’re eating fat, they do! The study authors blame high-fat diets on short-term memory loss and making exercise difficult, that’s not been my experience eating a diet with about 70 percent fat for the past five years. I’m more alert, feel absolutely fabulous, and regularly play competitive volleyball with people have my age. As long as you are cutting your carbs and replacing them with fat in your diet, then you will see tremendous positive benefits to your weight and health. And no amount of hyperbolic headlines will ever change that for me!

THE PRIMAL BLUEPRINT HEALTH CHALLENGE RECIPE ENTRY

Friend and fellow low-carb health blogger Methuselah from the “Pay Now Live Later” blog submitted several creative entries into Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint Health Challenge that I thought you’d enjoy seeing. I especially like the “Post-It” entry with the “Medicine Cabinet” as well as the YouTube video with a pretty nifty vegetable fritter recipe. ENJOY!

UPDATE ON THE ALZHEIMER’S TURNAROUND WITH COCONUT OIL

Remember that INCREDIBLE podcast interview I did with Dr. Mary Newport earlier this year about her husband’s remarkable turnaround with his Alzheimer’s disease thanks to the ketone bodies produced by feeding him high amounts of coconut oil? Well, the improvements just keep happening with Steve Newport as his wife has continued to feed him the high-saturated-fat coconut oil in virtually everything he consumes. Steve is even mowing the lawn again and he even has a part-time volunteer job–something Mary never thought she would see him do again. Watch this inspiring video to see how something that has been so vilified by health “experts” (coconut oil) has been the miracle for Steve Newport! My favorite line in the story was when she said “I got my Steve back!” And something tells me neither one of them is worried about clogged arteries. HA!

TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE ‘WHY EXERCISE WON’T MAKE YOU THIN’

Somewhere right about now, Gary Taubes has got to be smiling. After he wrote in his 2007 blockbuster Good Calories, Bad Calories that traditional cardiovascular exercise is probably not effective for producing weight loss, Taubes was raked across the coals and vilified for making what many conventional fitness experts would say was an asinine statement is now finding support from an unexpected source–Time Magazine. In a report by John Cloud, he shares his own personal exercise journey and frustrations that what he is doing is not producing any changes in his body like he expected it to. He even cited Taubes and warned others that exercise very likely could lead to weight GAIN. Are we seeing a flicker of hope that the message is penetrating?

LOW-CARB MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM RECIPE

A couple of months back I featured an enthusiastic guest on my podcast show named Josef Brandenburg who really likes to experiment in the kitchen to create some delicious low-carb alternatives to your favorite foods. His clients are always asking him to help them make foods they want that are acceptable on their fat-loss program and this one for mint chocolate chip ice cream seems to be out-of-this-world! Check it out and let me know what you think.

FDA ISSUES WARNING ON GLUCOSE MONITORING TEST STRIPS

Whether you are diabetic or just someone curious about measuring your blood sugar levels, listen up! The Food And Drug Administration has just issued a statement about the “possibility of falsely elevated blood glucose results” with certain glucose test strips called GDH-PQQ. This is critical because it could “mask significant hypoglycemia” where blood sugar levels drop or it could lead diabetics who take insulin to administer “excessive insulin” unnecessarily which is potentially fatal. A voluntary recall has already been requested by the FDA and anyone who believes they have test strips that are providing false reading should visit the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program web site or dial them toll-free at 800-332-1088. Spread the word to anyone you know who uses a blood glucose monitor.

THE USDA-BASED SCHOOL LUNCH SCAM SET TO CONTINUE

If you have one of the more than 30 million children who attends public school, then you already know about the School Lunch Program. While the creators of this government-sponsored program attempt to follow “science-based” recommendations for deciding what is and isn’t on the menu for kids, the fact of the matter is food lobbyists dominate the way this program is crafted. This is really no surprise to you and me that politics infiltrates something like school lunches. But watching this video will be a gentle reminder of the powerful interest groups we battle in waging a war against childhood obesity and preventable disease.

IS WHOLE FOODS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST OBESE EMPLOYEES?

This is a very interesting Wall Street Journal story about Whole Foods CEO John Mackey admitting that his popular upscale “health” food store is selling “a bunch of junk” as he describes it. So now he’s turning the attention on the health of his employees with a potential new incentive program coming in October 2009 that will “reward employees who hit targets for weight loss, quitting smoking and improving cholesterol and blood pressure.” WHAT?! By what standards will these “targets” be measured? BMI? Traditional blood tests? We know these can be flawed, but the poor employees who don’t measure up will receive a lower employee discount than those who do. This is pure discrimination and will be a lawsuit waiting to happen if they do in fact implement it. Not smart Mr. Mackey!

26-YEAR OLD WOMAN ALLEGEDLY DIES FROM KETOSIS? COME ON!

These low-fatties will stop at nothing to try to make their high-carb, fat-shunning diet look good while trashing livin’ la vida low-carb. To claim that a woman named Helen Anderson died from ketosis is like saying her death was attributed to breathing. It’s 100% preposterous and this Dr. David Ashton ought to be ashamed of himself! Ketone bodies are a very natural process that develop in everyone, especially at night. Low-carb dieters use ketone bodies much of the time for fuel and they are the preferred fuel for the brain (this is why eating sugary/starchy foods give you a brain fog and livin’ la vida low-carb does not). The implication that ketosis somehow led to this young woman’s death is criminal because it is not based in reality. High-fat, low-carb diets do indeed produce ketone bodies which aid in weight loss. But it’s so much more about the health, something this doctor has no interest in obviously. This is the kind of ignorance that is preventing people from overcoming their weight and health struggles once and for all.

JOHANSSON SLIMS DOWN FOR ‘IRON MAN 2′ ROLE WITH LOW-CARB DIET

Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson knows EXACTLY what to do to get her body into tip-top shape for a role–she starts livin’ la vida low-carb, baby! We’ve seen this before in 2006 when she lost eight pounds eating a high-protein, low-carb diet and now she’s done it again for her upcoming role as the Black Widow character in the May 2010 movie release Iron Man 2. Her outfit for the superhero is pretty skin-tight, so she wanted to get into the best shape possible. How? “She was definitely on a low-carb diet and training very hard. It was amazing.” And Scarlett is not afraid this way of eating is going to harm her health at all. So what’s the hang-up with low-carb living in the media?

HEALTHCARE DEBATE TURNS TO TAXING ‘FAT PEOPLE’

I’m sure you’ve heard about this proposal to require an extra sales tax on foods that are considered “fattening.” Like tobacco, the logic is that the higher the tax on the thing that is encouraging poor behavior, the lower the consumption of that thing becomes. But there’s only one problem with this as it relates to food–by what definition to we define what foods are “fattening?” We already know the answer to that question and it is anything with fat and especially saturated fat. This will do nothing about rising obesity rates and health decline and actually will make it worse as it becomes even MORE expensive to eat low-carb (which by very definition is high in fat). The radical vegetarians and vegans are certainly behind this little scheme, but it’ll be a cold day in you know where before I’ll sit back idly and take this in my country!

PURDUE STUDY FINDS INSULIN BIGGER ROLE IN OBESITY THAN GENETICS

We’ve known this for a while, but now there is a new study published in PLoS ONE from lead researcher Ju-Xin Cheng at Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry who says the genetic tie to obesity is not nearly as critical as how insulin is processed on the cellular level. They found that the faster a cell processes insulin, the greater the fat storage. It’s something so many of us know all too well about which is why we eat in such a way as to limit insulin production and that would be through carbohydrate restriction. It’s refreshing to see science is backing up the fact that insulin is wreaking more havoc on weight and health than genetics ever will!

CARB SECRET TO SLIM? WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING?

I’m not surprised to see anti-low-carb drivel like this from registered dietitian Leslie Beck again, but you’d think with all the research that has come out supporting lowering carbohydrate intake for weight loss and health would change her tune. Nope! Instead, she erroneously describes the Atkins diet as a “high-protein, ow-carbohydrate plan” when it fact it is high in fat with adequate protein and few carbs. It’s this kind of blatant arrogance and stupidity that makes people like Beck look so absurd. Go ahead and eat your carbs, Ms. Beck, but I think I’ll be sticking with livin’ la vida low-carb thank you very much!

STUDY: LOW-CARB DIET MAKES YOU FAT? GET REAL!

You gotta give the low-carb haters credit–they are relentless and refuse to stop trying to convince people carbohydrates are not harmful. But this constant obsession with trying to discourage people from trying a low-carb lifestyle is doing much more harm than good. Why not let people decide what is best for THEM and then leave them alone and encourage their decision regardless of what it is? Creating so-called studies claiming low-carb leads to obesity is simply sour grapes that the REAL evidence is saying just the opposite. Get over it already American Dietetic Association!

THE BEST WAY TO EAT CARBS AND WHY

Another nutritionist Christine Avanti says people should flip the Atkins diet around and eat up on the carbs, especially pasta, pizza, and bread. But she adds the caveat that carbs should be combined with a protein, eaten more often, eat them at every meal, eat them late a night, but don’t eat too many at one time. Say WHAT?! This would be laughable if Avanti wasn’t dead serious about these recommendations. UGH! If you are diabetic or deal with metabolic syndrome, then these recommendations she makes are guaranteed to put you on a one-way ticket to getting fatter and sicker. How do people like this sleep at night pumping out such dietary delusions?

KARLY PITMAN HELPS YOU ‘KICK YOUR SUGAR HABIT’

One of the guest speakers on the 2010 Low-Carb Cruise To The Bahamas will be Karly Pitman. She has a very special sugar-kicking program for people who still struggle with sugar addiction. It’s already underway, but this 12-week class will arm you with strategies for beating it once and for all. And Karly is a true sweetheart woman who has a passion for what she does. Reap the benefits of what she has to offer YOU!

I’ve still got plenty more headlines to share with you, but I had better stop now. Perhaps I’ll share more next week, but this will hold you for a while. Send any low-carb diet and health news to me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. THANK YOU for reading!

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We may need shock therapy to remove all that fat phobia indoctrination

This week I have a very special treat to share with you since it will be a short week for me. Because I’ll be going out of town beginning on Friday morning to attend my 20-year high school reunion in Florida this weekend, I wanted to give you some extra low-carb content to keep you occupied for those few days I’ll be gone. We’ll have a big list of brand new low-carb blogs to share with you on Thursday, but every day this week through we’ll have a “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb On YouTube” video blitz! That’s right, there’ll be a BRAND NEW YouTube video for you to watch and enjoy every single day starting today.

Lost in the ongoing debate over what constitutes a “healthy” diet is the power that the mind has over the body. Most people are completely unaware that their negative thinking towards things like cholesterol and saturated fat, for example, is precisely what is leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy that ends in an unexpected heart attack, cardiovascular disease diagnosis, or even sudden inexplicable death. Ironically, all of those health calamities have absolutely nothing at all to do with any of those things we think are the culprit. That famous quote from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is absolutely right: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

In Episode 72 of “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb On YouTube”, Christine and I talk about a phenomenon that I recently read about called the “nocebo effect” (translated from Latin as “I will harm”). Most of us are familiar with the “placebo effect” where a drug provides a beneficial health effect simply because the person expects it to. The converse of that is the nocebo effect where a negative reaction happens as a result of something simply because a person expects it to. In the case of consuming saturated fat and cholesterol, which has been hammered into our heads for decades as being “harmful” to your health, this has never been more true for a large segment of the population.

What if all those stern warnings we’ve heard from the so-called “experts” against consuming saturated fat and cholesterol over the years have actually perpetuated the problem and made it even worse than it would have otherwise been? Could it really be the STRESS brought on by all the constant worrying people have about what saturated fat and cholesterol might be doing to their health that is actually the culprit in the heart health problems people are experiencing today? Is this “fat nocebo” the secret underlying issue driving cardiovascular disease as one of the top reasons for preventable deaths in the world today?

Watch this video and YOU decide if this is just mind games or not:

I invited the author (Dr. Marshall Deutsch) of this column about his “fat nocebo” hypothesis to come on my podcast show to discuss it even further and we had a delightful conversation a couple of weeks ago. I’ll be sharing that interview in September 2009 because Dr. Deutsch brings up an intriguing concept that deserves an even closer look regardless of what you believe regarding healthy nutrition. Could all those low-fatties out there who are so scared to death of what saturated fat and cholesterol might do to their bodies be putting themselves at risk for heart disease simply by their hysteria over it? Now wouldn’t that be quite the paradox, hmmmmm?

If you liked watching today’s video, then you might want to check out all of our previous YouTube videos as well. Christine and I work hard to make these videos entertaining, educational, and as fun as they can possibly be. We appreciate everyone who subscribes to our video series and we’re deeply honored to add brand new viewers to the show each and every day. E-mail us anytime about our videos at livinlowcarbman@charter.net.

Be sure to check back the rest of this week for more of our “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb On YouTube” video blitz! Rock the night away, baby!

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Chiropractor Dr. Michael Berglund explains Tim Russert’s death

The biggest health headline this summer was the untimely death of NBC-TV political anchor Tim Russert who suffered a fatal heart attack despite following all of the conventional methods for treating his high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and blockages in his arteries. All of the newspaper headlines and television sound bytes about Russert’s death were how this was a shocking event that was an anomaly to doctors. But this didn’t set too well with a nutrition-focused chiropractor in Kenosha, Wisconsin named Dr. Michael Berglund.

Dr. Berglund was so outraged, he recorded this 7-minute video to respond:

In Episode 191 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” I caught up with Dr. Michael Berglund from the Berglund Health & Wellness Center who was unabashed in his explanation of what REALLY happened to Tim Russert and how his premature death could very well have been prevented had he implemented some low-carbohydrate nutritional strategies to address his various health conditions. Hear the passion in his voice as Dr. Berglund articulates many of the points you and I embrace as the truth–quite a refreshing change in this day and age of medical complacency.

There are FOUR ways you can listen to Episode 191:

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What’s your take on Dr. Michael Berglund and his comments about Tim Russert’s death? Talk about it in the show notes section of Episode 191. If you live in the Kenosha, Wisconsin area and need a chiropractor or nutrition specialist, then visit the Berglund Health & Wellness Center. And bookmark Dr. Berglund’s YouTube video channel for more videos from this much-needed voice in the healthcare industry.

Just a reminder, I’m working on compiling a list of your favorite past podcast interview guests to bring them back on the show again for another special week of interviews in early 2009. Browse through my full archives and see if there are any guests you’d like to hear more from. When you do, send me their name and a list of questions you would like for me to ask them. I’ll choose the top five most popular ones and request another interview. E-mail me who your favorite podcast interview guests are at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. THANK YOU for listening!

Coming up on Thursday we’ll have a delightful lady by the name of Penny Hoff who is also making some outstanding YouTube videos showing the “chronically-challenged” generation that exercise is NOT impossible. Penny is a supporter of low-carb (and enthusiastically says as much during my interview with her) and recently released a book through my publisher Booklocker entitled Fitness Rants For The Chronologically Enriched. DON’T MISS IT!!!

I’ll be releasing my upcoming schedule of podcast interviews in the next few months later this week, including some amazing chats with people like Slow Burn author Fred Hahn, former NFL football player Bill Romanowski, Dr. Barry Sears from Zone Diet fame, “Biggest Loser” trainer Bob Harper, Evolutionary Fitness’ Arthur DeVany, Dr. John Salerno, and many more! I can’t wait for you to hear these interviews from some of the best and brightest in the world of health and nutrition.