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Dear stevia sellers: If you are jealous of the success that sucralose (Splenda) has enjoyed in the marketplace, and want a piece of the action yourself, here are a few hints for you: 1. Make your crap taste better. It’s nasty, 99 percent of the time. 2. Make it cheaper. It’s ridiculously expensive. For [...] I’d heard of the China Study which supposedly proves veganism is healthier than eating animal foods. But I hadn’t read the book, so really couldn’t have an opinion about it. I’d heard from some LC bloggers that it was bunk, but again, nothing definite. That all changed today. I think it’s time for T. [...] Someone on my Facebook feed linked to this article at the L.A. Times about those ridiculous new USDA nutrition guidelines: A low-carb guru weighs in on the dietary guidelines …Actually, calling Dr. Phinney a “guru” is kind of stretching it. I never even heard of the dude until the buzz started about the new [...] Because your average dedicated low-carber is typically concerned about general health and not just weight loss, the LC community overlaps somewhat with organic food advocacy and similar movements. So, every now and again you’ll hear some LC blogger or book author wax eloquent about the dangers of artificial sweeteners. I sympathize. I don’t react [...] 248.5 | 241 | 140 Health stuff this past week: The swelling in my foot has improved tremendously even with variations in the weather. On the other hand, over the weekend I developed some weird kind of GI problem. I suspect it was a virus, and it seems to be clearing up now, [...] Shit. Well, my feet were really swollen yesterday, especially the right one which has been giving me grief for over a year now and I said to myself, “Watch me be back above 240 tomorrow.” You know how fatties like to say it’s water weight–well, it probably is. I’m pretty sure [TMI ALERT] [...] 248.5 | 239.0 | 140 Wow, what do you know. Cool. Also: HOLY SHIT I’M OUTTA THE 240s. I don’t EVER want to see that weight range again. *loud imaginary applause* Hey, whaddya want. I’m a Leo Moon*. We love applause. I would love to say I’ve been a saint, but ’tis [...] Fortuitously, I was at Girl Gone Primal‘s blog a few minutes ago and happened across an interesting link in her RSS feed. A Dr. Briffa has written the following in his blog entry, For weight loss, does ‘slow and steady’ really win the day?… …more rapid weight loss initially was associated with better [...] I don’t know if I have OCD, but whatever it is, it’s going crazy right now–usually I start these things out with a picture but I have none to use for this post. Argh. Anyway, I don’t want to call her out by name, but an old friend of mine from high school recently hurt her leg and her doctors recommended bariatric surgery if she wants to be able to walk long distances ever again. Her BMI’s somewhere in the 50s range. She had a weight problem back in high school too, and along with most of the rest of us she’s put on additional weight over the years. I asked her what she’s tried so far and she listed off “dieting” (whatever diets that might be), Weight Watchers and eating more veggies. She also apparently has a thyroid problem, which for some reason her docs didn’t seem to want to wait til that got most of the way straightened out before making grand sweeping pronouncements about the fate of her GI tract. She’s looking at resecting rather than lap band, too, which especially worries me. Lap band is at least reversible in the majority of patients who get it. Resecting, not so much, and the mortality rate is higher. If there’s anything I can do to help her not have to have the surgery without getting in her face about it then I will do so. I figure the best way to do that is to just provide information. Now’s the time to make all that WILFing* I do pay off for someone besides me. Well, as far as it has paid off for me, anyway, up til now.  Wow, I can’t even look happy when I’m modeling*. Fail… Today I was reminded of a trend I’ve seen in health blogging generally. It annoys me a lot. I don’t know why I haven’t written much about it here up til now. So now I will devote an entire blog post to the subject. Lucky you! Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity. |
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Did you read my disclaimers? As far as I'm concerned, you did. No? As far as I'm concerned, you did. Just in case you forgot somehow, scroll back up to the top of this page and look at the menu, right below the blog title. There ya go. Read 'em. Again. Because you have to have read them or you wouldn't be here. ;) Copyright © 2010 Dana Seilhan/The Low-Carb Curmudgeon - All Rights Reserved. Hosted by A2 Hosting. Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll. Discuss on our WP Forum |
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