Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 28th, 2006
A Tale of Two Fishies
One of the staple proteins of a sensible low carb diet has always been fish. One of the best food sources for important nutrients, such as omega fats, is fish. But all the bad news about PCBs, heavy metals, and other toxins found in fish makes you pause to reconsider the wisdom of enjoying them very often, whatever the weight loss, brain health, or cardiovascular benefits might be. After all, you can get protein from other less toxic sources–pasture-fed beef and lamb, natural chicken and pork, cage free eggs. And you can get purified omegas from both marine and farmed algae sources and not have to worry about the contaminants.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Playing The Numbers Game: HDL, LDL and Risk
Mike wrote a blog piece a while back called “The Low Fat Hammer” about how entrenched the belief in the health benefits of the low fat diet remains in the minds of the media, the public, and (Heaven help us) in the minds of many doctors, despite the mountain of scientific evidence amassed to the contrary. In virtually every head to head contest that has pitted low fat against low carb, low fat has failed miserably across the board.
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
What’s up with 7UP?
What’s up with the New 100% Natural 7UP? Has the soda pop giant finally turned over a new leaf?
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Peas, Peas Me, Oh Yeah
There’s something about the arrival of spring that whets my appetite for green peas. Although they aren’t the lowest carb of green vegetable choices, they are enough of a bargain at 8.4 grams to enjoy a half-cup as a side dish with ham or lamb for Easter brunch–especially when you can get them fresh. [...]
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Egg-stra Special Egg Salad
Spring has sprung, Easter is just around the corner, and soon, you may find yourself awash in left over brightly colored eggs and wondering what to do with them.
Kids love to decorate eggs at Easter and it makes for a wonderful and entertaining family activity. My own childhood Easter memories are a kaliedoscopic swirl of green, purple, and pink fingertips and the sharp smell of vinegar. Egg coloring in my day was fraught with difficulty. Fortunately, nowadays, a bazillion different sorts of less messy and far less stinky egg coloring and decorating kits have flooded the market that make it easier even for little ones to get into the act. Still, no matter which method you choose, most of them involve coloring and hiding real hard boiled eggs…
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
A Better Treatment for Sleep Apnea
The title of a little blurb by Susan T. Lennon in the USA Weekend supplement to our paper last week caught my eye: Blood Pressure: Your snoring may keep it high
Ms. Lennon described a study done at the University of Alabama at Birmingham which showed that 85% of people with resistant hypertension (meaning hasn’t responded to medications, exercise, and a low-fat, low-salt diet) also suffered from obstructive sleep apnea. The researchers also added that treating the apnea improved the blood pressure.
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Arsenic and Old Legs… Chicken Legs, That Is
Today’s New York Times contained an article by food writer Marian Burros entitled “Chicken With Arsenic? Is that O.K?” that points up yet another reason for eating natural or organic poultry, if you can get it. The piece concerns renewed reports that arsenic (yes, that would be the same deadly poison sometimes used to exterminate rats and errant husbands) may be present in greater than allowable amounts in chicken. Not in all chicken–but some kinds of it. For decades and with the government’s stamp of approval, the toxic mineral has been added to some commercial chicken feed to kill parasites and promote greater appetite in the chickens to enhance their growth.
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The Corrected Low-down on Lamb Feeding
I stand corrected.
Many thanks to readers Anne Mark and Esther Hoff for notifying me of an error in my On The Lamb post of a few days ago. I had written that lamb was a healthier meat because it wasn’t lot fed. Both ladies wrote in to correct me, noting that they had first-hand knowledge of large, awful lamb feed lots in Colorado
