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More Low-Carb Craziness

By Rob Archangel, 180DegreeHealth.com staff writer Still listening to the Real Food Summit, and today caught two talks, Zoe Harcombe and Barry Groves. I wanted to bang my head against the wall for some of the wacky stuff I was hearing, especially from Groves. I won’t give a point by point breakdown, but some quick and dirty thoughts. Groves repeatedly misrepresents facts to fit his...

Paleo Fail

I have written about the before and after of eating a low-carb Paleo or low-carb non-Paleo diet for going on three years now. While it is extremely common to lose weight without effort, hunger, or cravings ? and have amazing energy levels to boot (and temporary alleviation of health problems), that doesn’t make it healthy, sustainable, or permanent. In what I would venture to guess is the...

Mark Sisson

Hey, sorry about my absence late last week. Wednesday distraction, Thursday drama, Friday crisis, and weekend recovery explains the last 5 days. Good stuff. All is well now though. Where were we? Ah yes, I wanted to continue our discussion of some popular diets/gurus. As promised, today we discuss Mark Sisson of http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ For starters, I want to make this perfectly clear....

Low-Carb Lowers Metabolism

It’s no secret that reducing carbohydrates in your diet to an extreme level slows down the metabolism.  It does this by lowering production and/or synthesis of the active thyroid hormone – the one that REALLY counts, T3 – triiodothyronine.  I won’t abuse it again, but I’ve mentioned many times that even Dr. Atkins was aware of this, and stated...

Fat Head Gets a 180 Infection

“Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years, rockin’ my peers, puttin’ suckaz in fear.  Making the jam, rain down like a Mon-soon, listen to the bass go boom. Explosions! Ova-powerin’, over the competition I’m towerin’!”No I didn’t have to look those lyrics up sadly.  Had a car a few years ago that only had a tape...