Monthly Archives: October 2015

Nothing Special About Kids

Posted on October 29, 2015 by dcarmack

Here is the headline: Cutting Sugar Improves Children’s Health in Just 10 Days “This paper says we can turn a child’s metabolic health around in 10 days without changing calories and without changing weight – just by taking the added … Continue reading →

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Bacon Causes Cancer

Posted on October 28, 2015 by dcarmack

Yep, you read that right, according to about half the headlines on this topic yesterday, if you eat bacon you will get colorectal cancer. Here is one, for instance: Bacon and Hot Dogs Cause Cancer, According to the World Health … Continue reading →

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Secret Information

Posted on October 27, 2015 by dcarmack

I found a secret group on Facebook. I don’t recall exactly how I found it, but it promotes the Ketogenic lifestyle. The name of the group is Ketogenic Generations. I believe that perhaps one of the founders, Zoe Melvin or John … Continue reading →

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Whole Human

Posted on October 16, 2015 by dcarmack

You are 65% water. You are, on average, 12% fat and 20% protein. There are ten times more bacteria in and on your body than there are human cells in and on your body. Your gut is wired to the … Continue reading →

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One More on Addiction

Posted on October 15, 2015 by dcarmack

I thought I would share some more from the wonderful book I have been reading on addiction, “The Biology of Desire:Why Addiction Is Not A Disease.” As my long-time readers will recall, it is my opinion that carbohydrates are an addictive … Continue reading →

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Blaming the Victim

Posted on October 14, 2015 by dcarmack

If you look at someone that is way overweight, it is almost automatic that you would blame them for their condition. Now that we are a nation of overweight citizens, with two out of three of us having a body … Continue reading →

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Really Bad Advice

Posted on October 9, 2015 by dcarmack

The world of health and nutrition information is really quite full of bad advice. Most of the places that you would think of first to get this kind of information will be the most frequent dispensers of this bad advice–eat … Continue reading →

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Bad Impressions

Posted on October 7, 2015 by dcarmack

Sometimes I Shake My Head in disbelief at the things that can creep, unquestioned, into a news article. Even in a paper as well-known for getting it right as the New York Times, sometimes inaccuracies get in there, and perpetuate … Continue reading →

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Hubris of Man

Posted on October 4, 2015 by dcarmack

Here we are, in the 21st century, and we are just these days coming to terms with the importance of the bacteria that have lived within us and on us for our entire evolutionary history. There are, on average, 100 … Continue reading →

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