Comments on: One of the dumbest headlines ever

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:43:54 +0000

Or a moron blogger who thinks it is always acceptable to trash our government. The headline was obviously written by a Washington Post editor and probably not the author of the article, Steven Reinberg. It certainly was not written by any government worker and if you read the article it is not in a quote or attribution to any govt employee quoted.

In fact, the context of the article would indicate that the intended meaning of the headline would be something like “New exercise guidelines make it easier (to understand what is required) to get fit. It explained to the reader (obviously not you) that these were the first guidelines published in 10 years.

This is a bad faith smear on the doctor’s part and I really don’t like such knee-jerk whining. We have a government – get over it.

And we all have the right to bitch about its manifest incompetency. Get over it.

By: rachel allen

rachel allen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:12:23 +0000

this is unrelated i think but its an exercise question: i am overweight but losing and getting in much better shape with low carb/ITing. i have started some cardio interval training that is making me feel out of sight. huge whale breaths, hot sweaty energy release, lactic acid anaerobic threshold upping, the works. nothing major, just using a tabata timer. walking, yoga never helped me so much, however, today right after exercise i got a lump in my thoat right under the addams apple. just annoying , not painful. any idea why? the exercise is very calming so i dont think its anxiety. mucus? athsma? and i a hypochondriac?

By: Methuselah - Pay Now Live Later

Methuselah - Pay Now Live Later — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:45:03 +0000

Hi Dr Eades,

Following your thoughts on my comment way up there on chain, I wanted to let you know that I went ahead with eating wheat 2 weeks before my blood test, with some results that I documented here:

The Wheat Experiment – Blood Test Update

It’s hard to know whether the changes were significant, but to me they appear so. If you get a chance to look at the Excel charts I created of my results, your perspectives would be of great interest to my readers!

Thanks,
M.

It’s really difficult to say. The changes (after adding wheat) are trending in a direction, but we don’t know if the trend is significant or not. It would be nice to have done the same labs on one who doesn’t have a problem and was following the same dietary regimen.

By: Rachel/Fit Mom

Rachel/Fit Mom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:53:21 +0000

Totally agree. I also found this article last week in the NY times ( http://bit.ly/kugc) which I thought was equally dumb. Because they keep lowering the standards. Just ten minutes a day and that is better than nothing and gardening counts! If the standards keep getting Lower- than people will do nothing.

By: Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:37:45 +0000

Hello Gary,
Here’s what happened in our family after reading (with great fascination and admiration – it was a tremendous eye-opener) Good Calories, Bad Calories when it came out a little over a year ago: the three of us – husband, 59, me, 58, and our son, 23 – quit overnight all our frustrating conventional diet attempts and switched to very low-carb eating, and kept at it ever since.

Results: great improvement in blood lipid profiles (much lower triglycerides etc.) for us old geezers, but very little change in our respective weights – and we do need to lose. The son, on the other hand, lost an astonishing 65 lb. in just three months – it was like watching the kid melt in front of our eyes – and has kept the weight off, effortlessly. From a fat, shy youth he turned into a confident, lithe and handsome young man, which is of course very gratifying to see, and we always remember that this miracle occurred thanks to GCBC. So this is an opportunity to let you know how deeply grateful we are for your great work.

OK, the question: do you know of any science that would explain the different effects a low-carb diet might have on people of different ages? (We’re all pretty sedentary, live together and eat more or less the same low-carb foods, so I guess the crucial variable is age.) Does a body fed a high carb diet for many decades accumulate some irreversible damages that would prevent significant weight loss later in life? Or is there any truth to the “gradually slowing metabolism” theory of fat accumulation? What’s your take on this?

Many thanks, again.

Hey Rosie–

You put this question in the wrong post, and I don’t have any way to change it to the correct one. Why don’t you copy it and stick it in the post about Gary answering questions so it will get considered.

Best–

MRE

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:08:24 +0000

Obama may or may not have been selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on affirmative action, we do not know that although it’s a possibility. However, the fact that he was selected as president of the Review out of a field of 19 candidates by the 80 editors is an acomplishment that cannot be wished away by claiming reverse discrimination. At what point can a smart non-white achieve a position through his or her intelligence without affirmative action being thrown out as the sole cause of the said achievement?

That being said, my personal picks for this election slate would have been Richardson v. Romney.

I seriously doubt that he was selected as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. That title comes by vote of the law students after campaigning by those seeking the position. I know how all this works because of eldest son was the EIC of the SMU Law Review, and I’m assuming the process is the same everywhere.

The accusations of his being helped by affirmative action involve his acceptance at Harvard. And his wife’s acceptance at Princeton. If there is any truth to the accusation that either of then didn’t deserve their respective admissions, I would have to say that it applies more to his wife. Why? Go on Google and find her thesis from Princeton. Forget about the content, which, in my opinion, is pure twaddle, and look instead at her ability to put thoughts on paper and the writing itself. Again, it’s only my opinion, but it is far below the standards of such an institution as Princeton.

The whole affirmative action deal, again, in my opinion, was not necessarily a good thing for the very people it was supposed to help. I grew up in an era before affirmative action, and I heard countless times in reference to someone who was black (or even female) who had achieved a position of status, that he/she must really be good (implying much better/smarter than a white person in a similar position) to have gotten there despite the deck’s being stacked against them. Now, people say – as they do about Obama – that they got their courtesy of affirmative action. I think it’s a case of the law of unforeseen consequences in action.

By: kathy

kathy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the reference to “Economics in One Lesson.” I will add it to my Amazon wish list along with a certain tome about 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle that is rumored to be coming out next spring. Have you heard of it? Are you will willing to speculate at all about its contents??? Hmmm?

Can’t speculate yet, but will soon. Got to do the last editing go round (which arrives this Friday) first.

Cheers

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:57:16 +0000

Yes, points well taken, and you can’t beat the price of admission.

I always learn something when I come here.

By: Catherine Hochschild

Catherine Hochschild — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:11:41 +0000

Please don’t listen to Brian. I always enjoy it when you express your personal views, although I disagree with some of them. In fact, I always thought it was a pity when you agreed in response to much whining to keep your posting to largely medical topics. Write what you want (especially in the comments, for crying out loud). After all, this is *your* blog!

Thanks. It is my blog. And it’s well worth the subscription price.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:43:42 +0000

Dr. Eades,
I just wanted to say that bread can be made by using the yeast that are in the air around us. This is where the yeast came from originially for sourdough bread. Of course, after you make one batch, you save a piece of the dough (which is full of yeast) and add it to the next batch to ensure fermentation.

Of course, bread can be made without yeast, as well. The unleavened bread used for Passover in the Bible, by rule, could not have any leaven in it.