Aug 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Chris Randall Okay fine. Sugar, the sweet, sweet truth. I made a smoothie today: a really good one, in fact. ?Oh, a super-good one with wild organic low-sugar berries, organic grass-fed no-sweetener-added whey protein powder, and no-calorie Stevia drops?! Um, no. Gross. Do people actually eat stuff like that? I’m talking a real smoothie. I’m talking the kind of smoothie that would...
Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
No this is not a book review of Gary Taubes’s Why We Get Fat. Rather, this is a post about the reality of how people pack on extra weight minus Taubes’s incorrect and shortsighted assessment of biochemistry. A question I get as often, or more often than any other, is ?Well then, what does cause people to become fat??? Believe it or not, this question involves more than just a...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
The world is drowning in low carb diet plans. Low carb fever has swept the nation, and perhaps the world. If anything, with #1 documentary films like Tom Naughton’s Fat Head and groundbreaking books like Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories, the low carb diet has done nothing but gain steam since the days of Atkins. This, in part, is a beautiful thing. The low carb diet masters...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
It’s made from corn silly! It’s good for you! Has anybody seen those ads?? The ones put out by the Corn Refiners Association?? I have. Not only are there numerous dangers of high-fructose corn syrup, there’s actually dangers of high-fructose corn syrup commercials – I laughed so hard when I saw those I nearly fell out of my chair and bonked my head. The high-fructose corn...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Fructose, a type of sugar, has historically been granted a ?get out of jail free? card due to its presence in fruit. It’s the same sugar that’s in fruit, and fruit is healthy, so fructose must be healthy goes the story. But is there such as thing as too much?? Without a doubt, yes. Also, when it’s in the form of a refined sugar does it behave the same as the tiny amount of...
