Thanks for the kudos. I forgot that I had written a post on how I prepared for this show. Take a look.

That video displays exactly what I like about you as a Low-Carb champion. Calm, cool, no BS, and on point. I love the skepticism and common sense you bring to this blog.

Thank you,
Dan

I’ll try to keep my skepticism and common sense intact for the next year. Thanks.

I was looking for a place to pass this on to you. I did not find it in either of your bibliographies, nor in Taubes GCBC bibliography. To save the comments readers a download, I have included some of the relevant parts of the posts in which I found it. Don’t know if the quote html will come thru, but if it does I have deciphered the “handle” of the poster to read LowCarb FamilyPractice, since he has mentioned being a doc in some of his posts.

http://www.jlr.org/cgi/reprint/24/10/1329

[QUOTE=LC FP]This is a PDF file with a great table listing the fatty acid content of carotid plaque, femoral plaque and a Xanthoma (cholesterol eruption on the skin).

In the carotid plaque, saturated fat composed 14.3 % of total fat, monounsaturated fat was 30.9% and polyunsaturated was 53%. Almost adds up to 100%. You can see each fat type in the table.

Some interesting individual fats were palmitic (16:0) 12.7%, stearic (18:0) 1.5%, oleic (18:1) 25.5%, linoleic (18:2) 38.1%, arichidonic (20:4) 8.3%, EPA (20:5) 0.7%, and DHA (22:6) 0.6%

So the major fat in carotid plaque is linoleic acid, the main polyunsaturated omega-6 fat in corn oil and other vegetable oils. It has to be from diet, your body can’t manufacture linoleic acid since it can’t make the omega-6 bond. That’s what makes it an essential fatty acid.

I wonder how many learned dietitians know this? If they don’t they’re frauds and if they do they’re hypocrites.[/QUOTE] I just had to include his last observation, it hits the nail so square on the head you just cannot help but cheer, “YES!!!!”

I don’t know if you are aware of it or not, but you have a LARGE enthusiastic following on the other low-carb forums/boards.
Keep up the good work,
Regards,
Larry

This is a famous and oft quoted paper. Thanks for the link for others to read it. It’s probably worth a full post sometime. It’s not exactly as it seems.

Say hi for me to all the folks on the forum.

BTW, you look terrific. You and O’Reilly are around the same age? WOW. There is no better advertisement for what you believe in than to see you in action. Except for the little bit of gray, you looked like you were 30ish.

I don’t buy the premise the dairy helps with weight loss. I’ve heard too much anecdotal evidence to the contrary to allow me to buy into the idea without a lot of very strong data, which there isn’t.

Thanks for the compliment. I’m actually a couple of years OLDER than O’Reilly. And he had makeup on and I didn’t, but who’s counting?

Sad, but oh so true. Here is a post I wrote about three years ago on what’s happening in France.

Ok, I have a couple questions, I know you’ve answered these on comments before but I can’t search for them because stuff in comments don’t come up in the search. Wish it did, your answers often contain wonderful info. Anyways, I just tested and found out yesterday that I’m pregnant, again, and I know you mentioned one of the trimesters being important to eat certain things…? I want to do a lower carb diet the whole pregnancy so I won’t gain 50 lbs. this time around. And I just got the weight off from my last pregnancy! I’m guessing if I don’t need grains my growing baby doesn’t, either? Also, is it fine to continue with fish oil? Is this type of information in one of your books? Thank you, as always, for your time!

Congratulations. I always love to see little new low-carbers coming into the world. As to what to eat during pregnancy… The research seems to indicate that it is best to avoid refined carbs during the first trimester. Why? Because that is the time the fetus is developing its pancreas, and it’s best not to overstimulate it with sugar. The next rule is to make sure to eat plenty of good quality protein during the last trimester because that’s when the baby is growing like crazy, and you want to have plenty of protein available to make the babies protein structures without robbing it from Mom. Fish oil is fine during pregnancy. And so is red meat. Developing babies need arachidonic acid and DHA for good nerve and visual development. Don’t short him/her.

MRE

Great blog and great topic here.
To stray somewhat from the topic, do you agree with some Doctors like Andrew Weil that MEN should avoid taking calcium supplements as they may increase the chance of prostate cancer?

Thanks again for your time and knowledge with this blog and your wonderful books.

Aaron

I don’t agree with Dr. Weil on much. But in this case, I don’t think men need calcium supplements if they’re following a whole-food, low-carb diet and eating plenty of animal protein. Protein increases the absorption of calcium, so one doesn’t have to supplement on a low-carb diet. Maybe I’m out of the loop, but I’ve never heard that calcium supplements cause prostate cancer. The idea probably came from an observational study, and, as you should know by reading this blog, those don’t tell much of anything.

With regard to Miss Slavin, the presentation she put together looks kind of silly and actually childish at some points. And as a matter of fact, every 4 year old knows that “everyone poops”. But I’m also confused where her presentation defines diarrheah as stool weight greater than 200g/day. I always thought diarrheah was defined as a loose watery stool. The NIH website agrees with this definition. Am I missing something? Do you know what she means?

It seems that Big Corn is really on the march. There are numerous ads on TV now refuting the idea that high fructose corn syrup is at all bad for us. In fact, the message is that HFCS is just fine for us, (all of us), of course in moderation (whatever that means). I agree with the respondent who suggested you do a “medical-minute” or something like it so that factual information can be brought forward. In fact, I’d love to see a full show. You had mentioned that you were looking into possibly bringing the Cookworx back to TV. I’d love to see that or the O’Reilly-style format that you mention.

BTW, very very good job on O’Reilly. When did that air? I’m sorry I missed it then, but glad you included it in the post.

Thanks. The O’Reilly show was a few years ago when the last nutritional guidelines had just come out.