Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Soy What?
Well, well, well. I was most amused to see the recent JAMA report that the much-touted benefits of soy isoflavones were…hmmmmm, how shall we put it gently…overblown.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Revenge of the Machines
This post has nothing to do with food, nutrition, or low carb. Rather it addresses a technological problem that recently blipped on our own radar screens and that, it occurred to me, might be blipping on others’ screens as well. What in the world do you do with an old computer? Or three?
As [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Same Old Same Old
This morning’s newspaper contained a brief article by Barbara Quinn (Knight Ridder News Service) outlining nine of the American Heart Association’s general tips for feeding kids right. In our paper, at least, it was set under the headline “New data for feeding kids”. New? As far as I can tell, it’s the [...]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
No Splenda? No Problem
A recent commenter on my previous post about using Splenda requested some guidance for those people who don’t want to use Splenda, but would like to make some of our recipes. Because of the potential wider interest in how to make such substitutions, I decided to post the response both in the comments for [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
GI Wish They’d Buy a Clue
The front page of the Life section of my local paper featured an article by Janet Helm of the Chicago Tribune, complete with a nearly full-page photo of a crusty baguette and the headline “How Sweet it is: Diet Craze is Based on Glycemic Index”. The net effect clearly implying that bread is back and [...]
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
Confession Good for the Soul?
I confess!! I confess!! That’s what the poor data must have said when the authors of a recent study reported yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association finally figured out a way to spin their pitiful results. Just as Mike predicted about this in his blog on January 3, 2006 (Brace yourself [...]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Doggone It! The Pooch has a Paunch
Rover, Fido, and Fifi are in trouble, or so says a New York Times article by Peter Jaret that got picked up in my local paper this morning. Entitled in our paper’s copy “People food leads to people problem. Obesity,” the article bemoans the growing overweight crisis among our nation’s canines. And [...]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
New Year’s Eve Bash
Mike and I rang the old year out over dinner at our place with a small group of good friends. We decided to pull out the stops and indulged in a full seven course meal as follows:
Smoked Salmon Blinis;
Seared Foie Gras with Caramelized Pears and Sherry Reduction;
Cream of Roasted Red Pepper Soup;
Balsamic Glazed Roasted [...]
