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About dcarmack

I am an instrument technician at the electric utility servicing the Kansas City Missouri metropolitan area. I am in the IBEW, Local 412. I was trained to be a nuclear power plant operator in the USN and served on submarines. I am a Democrat, even more so than those serving in Congress or the White House.

Leptin

Posted on April 23, 2015 by dcarmack

Never heard of it before yesterday. Leptin is an energy controlling hormone excreted by fat cells. It turns out that leptin is mentioned once in the book “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. I am going to quote the SINGLE … Continue reading →

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I Have Stopped Losing Weight

Posted on April 22, 2015 by dcarmack

I heard this before from friends that are on the No Carb way of life. I have stopped losing weight invariably means that I have stopped losing a pound or two of weight per week. Until you are at your … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Ashamed

Posted on April 21, 2015 by dcarmack

This weekend at work a colleague saw me eating a snack cake. He lit into me about how I was violating my diet, and that he wanted to see an article about how it was okay to eat a snack … Continue reading →

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Getting Rid of Fat

Posted on April 20, 2015 by dcarmack

I don’t know why anyone would throw away perfectly good fat, and by fat, I mean grease. I have a mug with a strainer atop it on the stove. Every meal that generates grease, like frying bacon or sausage, ends … Continue reading →

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My Secret Is Out

Posted on April 19, 2015 by dcarmack

“My secret is out, now I can finally quit!” These are the words that go through an addict’s head the second that his secret using or hidden bad behavior is discovered. It doesn’t matter what your addiction is, be it … Continue reading →

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Multiple Themes

Posted on April 18, 2015 by dcarmack

This morning I read on Nina Teicholz’s book website, “TheBigFat Surprise.com”, a complete blow-by-blow takedown of the advice that Doctor Dean Ornish put forth in his New York Times op-ed from about a month ago. At that time I had written … Continue reading →

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Unsustainable, Sustainable

Posted on April 18, 2015 by dcarmack

Modern farming is unsustainable. It costs more to raise corn and soy that a farmer can get at market prices. If it were not for the welfare of the Federal government, farmers would all go broke the first year. 2 … Continue reading →

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Everything is Relevant

Posted on April 16, 2015 by dcarmack

There is a huge problem with epidemiological studies that propose ‘relationships’ between foods and health outcomes. All of the statisticians and scientists are fully aware of the problems with the ‘correlations’ that these studies expose, but they still draw those … Continue reading →

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When Some is Worse Than None

Posted on April 14, 2015 by dcarmack

I happen to believe that there are some cases where the only entity that can be effective at curing an ill of society is government. There are those that believe only the market can effectively cure ills that take place … Continue reading →

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Truer Words Were Never Spoken

Posted on April 13, 2015 by dcarmack

This headline could have been the tagline for my favorite book concerning dietary science and the history of dietary recommendations in the US, “The Big Fat Surprise”– Nutritional Science Isn’t Very Scientific In the online magazine Slate this morning they … Continue reading →

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