The Low-Carb Curmudgeon

Ever had someone tell you to avoid lard because it’s bad for you? If you’re like me, you’ve been told over and over again that lard’s bad because it’s saturated fat.

A few years ago, I actually bought a tub of the stuff and tried cooking with it. It’s difficult to find the non-hydrogenated [...]

I’m WILFing* around again in the LC and paleo blogospheres and ran across this guy, who overall is interesting, but I’m kind of freaking out at his recipes… too high on the protein and too low on the fat. Anyway, he’s got a piece up about how to get fat and how to lose weight. I was about to argue with him there, then I remembered I have a blog. I like you dude, and you have a nice blog, so this is not a vendetta. And I don’t expect people to take me seriously, since I’m still fat. Nevertheless.

I tell people that calories don’t count as one of my rhetorical shortcuts. It is not that I’m lying, it’s that if I stood around trying to explain to them how the whole thing works, most of them’s eyes would glaze over and they’d tune me out about three paragraphs in. Because I know how they think of calorie theory, how they believe the theory works, I shortcut “the way you believe about calorie theory is incorrect” to say “calories don’t count,” because in the way THESE PEOPLE think calories count, they don’t, as far as the evidence indicates.

I see you’re confused. I’ll try to clear it up.
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