recipe Dried meat: Homemade beef jerky 4:00 AM 0 You can dry many types of meat, including beef, pork, goat, deer, and even some types of seafood, such as mussels. Drying meat tends to si...
VLDL Triglycerides, VLDL, and industrial carbohydrate-rich foods 4:00 AM 0 Below are the coefficients of association calculated by HealthCorrelator for Excel (HCE) for user John Doe. The coefficients of association ...
protein Book review: Perfect Health Diet 5:56 AM 0 Perfect Health Diet is a book that one should own. It is not the type of book that you can get from your local library and just do a quick...
research Potassium deficiency in low carbohydrate dieting: High protein and fat alternatives that do not involve supplementation 4:00 AM 0 It is often pointed out, at least anecdotally, that potassium deficiency is common among low carbohydrate dieters. Potassium deficiency can...
resistance exercise Dietary protein does not become body fat if you are on a low carbohydrate diet 4:00 AM 0 By definition LC is about dietary carbohydrate restriction. If you are reducing carbohydrates, your proportional intake of protein or fat, o...
my experience What is a good low carbohydrate diet? It is a low calorie one 4:00 AM 0 My interview with Jimmy Moore should be up on the day that this post becomes available. (I usually write my posts on weekends and schedule ...
research Ketones and Ketosis: Physiological and pathological forms 1:49 PM 0 Ketones are compounds that have a specific chemical structure. The figure below (from: Wikipedia) shows the chemical structure of various ty...
saturated fat Long-term adherence to Dr. Kwaśniewski’s Optimal Diet: Healthy with high LDL cholesterol 6:12 PM 0 This is a study (Grieb, P. et al., 2008; full reference at the end of this post) that I read a few years ago, right after it came out, and a...
shrimp Steamed gulf shrimp with vegetables 7:50 PM 0 Few would argue against eating seafood several times a week, except in the case of seafood allergy. Shrimp is a very good option, especially...
sugars Want to improve your cholesterol profile? Replace refined carbs and sugars with saturated fat and cholesterol in your diet 3:11 PM 0 An interesting study by Clifton and colleagues (1998; full reference and link at the end of this post) looked at whether LDL cholesterol par...
starch Okinawa: The island of pork 7:45 AM 0 The original inhabitants of the Ryūkyū Islands, of which the island of Okinawa is the largest, are believed to have the highest life expec...
research Half-hearted Atkins diet and cardiovascular disease 6:56 PM 0 I would like to comment on a recent article comparing the Atkins, Ornish and South Beach diets (Miller et al., 2009; full reference at t...