A few days in Seattle
Fresh salmon at the market about 100 feet from our hotel
MD and I are in Seattle right now working on a project that may revolutionize the world. I’m not kidding. Can’t talk about it yet, but that’s what we’re up here doing. We’ve been working from early morning until late at night since we’ve been here, so I apologize for the lack of attention to this blog. I simply haven’t had the time to deal with it.
There are a number of comments languishing in the purgatory of comments awaiting moderation. I’ll get to them as quickly as I can. At the latest, we’ll be back on home ground tomorrow, and I’ll deal with them then. Hope to be able to do so before, however.
About that project, do we get a prize for guessing it? I’d guess – something really revolutionary, that’s specific to the Seattle area – you are collaborating with one of our fine microbreweries (everyone knows the best ones are in Washington) to make a truly low-carb, gluten-free Stout or IPA that tastes as good as the real thing. What do I win?
Nothing to do with microbreweries.
Dear Doctor Eades:
I am sorry to bother you with so many questions but i would like to know what burns more calories stationary-bikes or walking?
I would like to know what burns more calories stationary-bicycles or walking? Because it is easier for me to exercise in my stationary bicycle, than to walk around here. I do walk like 60 minutes but walking is too cumbersome, too unconfortable and too impersonal. Another problem that I see in exercising in public is that you don’t have any privacy and personal liberty when you are walking around other people’s houses, as opposed when you are using your stationary-bike, or treadmill at the comfort of your own bedroom, watching TV where nobody can bother you. Besides you know how much we hate that exposure to crowds and the social interaction thing of exercising in the street and in public parks
low-carber
It depends on how fast you walk and/or how fast you bike. There are numerous sites on the web that give you the calorie burning numbers for all kinds of exercise. Google ‘energy expenditure.’
Doc,
Why did you take down the last post if you don’t mind my asking? “The fraud of intention-to-treat analysis”
It was purely accidental. It’s back up now. I had to be gone for a few days, and somehow before I left I must have accidentally done something that put the post back into ‘unpublished’ mode. Sorry for the confusion.
Seattle… hmmm… Mike, I hope your project has something to do with coffee… Now that’s an addiction to me!
I’ll keep my curiosity in check for another couple of months…
Not coffee, though, God knows, I love it.
Hi Dr Eades,
This is the only way of letting you know about a new paper which suggests a model why we are seeing so many junk papers published in the field of health sciences.
Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050201&ct=1
And a journalists view in The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12376658
Extract from the article:
“It starts with the nuts and bolts of scientific publishing. Hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers are hired, promoted and funded according not only to how much work they produce, but also to where it gets published. For many, the ultimate accolade is to appear in a journal like Nature or Science. Such publications boast that they are very selective, turning down the vast majority of papers that are submitted to them.
Picking winners
“The assumption is that, as a result, such journals publish only the best scientific work. But Dr Ioannidis and his colleagues argue that the reputations of the journals are pumped up by an artificial scarcity of the kind that keeps diamonds expensive. And such a scarcity, they suggest, can make it more likely that the leading journals will publish dramatic, but what may ultimately turn out to be incorrect, research.”
Interesting!
Meanwhile, a bit of housekeeping. Can you get your web guy to fix your RSS feed? At the moment, we get to preview the title of your articles while they are still work-in-progress. Currently I see that your latest is “The fraud of intention-to-treat analysis”, but when I follow the link, I get a 404.
Best wishes,
Michael Richards
Hey Michael–
Thanks for the links to the PLoS and Economist articles; I hadn’t seen them. They are indeed interesting.
The RSS feed isn’t broken – I simply screwed up, and I don’t know how. But the post in question is back up.
Cheers–
MRE
Here’s a link to a video of Dean Ornish doing some Atkins bashing. For some reason TED likes this guy. People seem to take everything he says as gospel.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dean_ornish_on_healing.html
Tells you all you need to know about the people who schedule speakers for TED. The part of this Ornish talk about Atkins-type diets contains a little outright lying and deceit. All of us giving talks – including yours truly – tend to present the studies that confirm our own biases, but most of us don’t out and out lie about them.
Dear Doctor Eades,
I have been practicing CRIF for 1.5 months now with the 24 hours starting/ending at 18h. So far so good. It has not been a difficult transition other that having to offset dinner time to accomodate social events. No hunger pains, headaches, just hungry 2-3 hours before eating and it is getting easier to control what is now a strong feeling than pain. I eat well and plenty (a fair amount of carbs…I know and will focus on more proteins soon) on eating days although probably not the equivalent as before. I am a reasonably fit 54 year-old and jog 3 times a week for a total of 25km. I was quite suprised of not been hungry or weak on fasting day that coincided with morning jogging days. I measure 1,73m and my top weight was 84kg. It has since dropped about 7kg to 77kg and generally feel very good. I can see continuing CRIF eating like this for the foreseeable future.
I would greatly appreciate if you could answer/comment on the following questions when you have a minute.:
1) how long will the weight loss last? Will it stabilize at some point?
2) I used to take a few vitamins/supplements in the morming (E, multi,coenzymeQ10, C) and aspirin for controlling inflammation in a knee and as a general prophylactic. Should I maintain my daily intake or take them every other day? Is there a better time to take them, after a meal as is often recommended?
Many thanks for promoting an easier way to CR/IF,
Marc
Yes, the weight loss will stabilize at some point. I don’t know exactly where given that I don’t know your body fat percentage, but I would imagine it will start to taper off as you approach 15 percent body fat.
I don’t see a problem in taking the supplements daily, even on fasting days. i don’t consider them as being caloric even though they may contain a few calories.
Somehow I too….am very excited about what Dr. Eades may be up to………WHY? Because in all the communication I have seen from both of the good doctors….even the infomercials…..they have NOT used “sensationalism” to promote their great work. That is one of the best things about Dr. Eades’ and Protein Power…..the solid, down-to-earth, factual way that any and all information is presented……….thus……
If Dr. Eades uses these terms……….”may revolutionize the world”…..then I fully expect this will be something of great importance to all of us…..Best of Luck…..and THANK YOU for your work.
Thank you for the compliment. I’ll never forget the first time we were approached to do an infomercial and the people putting the deal together said that we needed to be more like the Juiceman to sell our product. We said, that ain’t us and went somewhere else.
I do think what we’re working on will revolutionize the world, sort of. Not like the invention of the wheel or anything, but it should change the way a lot of people operate. I’m not trying to be coy about it all, but we’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement with the people we’re working with, so I really can’t spill the beans at this point.
Dr. Mike,
I was wondering if you could take a moment and look at Andrew Weil’s new “food pyramid” and mak a comment or two?
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/PAG00361/anti-inflammatory-food-pyramid.html
I know that Dr. Weil has read Good Calories bad calories, and has commented favourably on it, and hopefully has been influenced by it. Notice that in the text of the pyramid, for example, his pasta recommendation is servings per WEEK, not per day.
Thanks,
Dan
Not only did Dr. Weil read the book and comment on it favorably, he invited Gary to speak at one of his conferences.
His food pyramid is better than the governments, but whose isn’t? I don’t like all the soy and I’m not crazy about all the grains, despite the fact that they’re whole. People who promote whole grains have a basic lack of understanding about what whole grains really are. The only part of the grain that is edible is the starch inside – that’s it. The rest of it is the plant’s means of protecting itself and is indigestible.
If you want to read a long but truly great paper on the whole-grain issue, read Loren Cordain’s seminal paper on the subject (it’s #7 on this list of his published works).
Anne, boiling fish is probably the least damaging way to eat it. That’s what I do. Also, eat some of the water. Don’t cook in aluminum or teflon, either. Stainless steel or cast iron preferably. Cooking in water and serving it with the water (like soup) helps keep the fish from drying out, like it does when you cook it in the open air. That said, I have no problem eating raw fish. It tastes good if it’s fresh and I believe it’s probably healthier. The thing to avoid is farmed fish, except maybe scallops, oysters, clams, and things like that. They are farmed by fencing off a part of the ocean, according to what I’ve read.
Nature and Science? In our house they are referred to as “tabloids”.
Since I know you love coffee…
If you’re still in the area, try to check out Vivace
http://www.espressovivace.com/
It’s fabulous espresso! It’s different somehow… though I’m not exactly sure how. Perhaps less acidic? Whatever it is, it’s fabulous. Everyone I know in the area won’t go anywhere else.
If you’re not still here, remember it for next time. Trust me, it’s really that good
I’m not still there – I’m in Dallas right now, but leaving for the airport soon. I’ll be back in Seattle in a month or two, so I’ll try it then. I’m always on the lookout for good coffee.
Thanks for the recommendation.