I looked it up and not only did she live to two days shy of her 92nd birthday, but her husband lived to over 92 as well … presumably eating her food for most of his adult life.

Now here you and Dr Mary come with sensible, well researched, programs presented by two doctors who don’t dance, sing, and wear scrubs while presenting their way of eating–sheesh!

We’re the Rodney Dangerfields of the diet world.

So, accidentally charred meat has no role in proper nutrition? That’s kinda what I was digging at but had trouble putting into words.

Also, got your book the other day…gonna go continue reading it right now. So far, good stuff =)

thanks

-Anthony

Thank you.

I have now finished reading your new book. It was worth the money, given some of the new insights ad possibilities it gave me into the role, causes, incidence and relative effects of visceral fat, sub-cutaneous fat, and alcoholic and non- alcoholic fatty liver.

The worrying element of the book, however, was the lack of references to the scientific literature, within the text, other than via a bibliography at the end. I have spent some time trying to correlate your assertions in the main body with the bibliography, but in the end had to give up, given the time expenditure required in doing the cross referencing and then seeking out the primary sources. As with many other books, it would have been much easier if you had directly referenced a claim from your text to the primary source. For instance, Lierre Keith’s book. The Vegetarian Myth, manages to do this without costing me any more.

You have noted elsewhere in this blog that the lack of such references was a decision of your publisher, apparently seeking to economize upon production costs. Frankly, I am extremely unhappy with this view. I find this explanation from your publisher to be implausible. It costs near to nothing to add references to an external resource.

In my view, the lack of such references involves your publisher (and you indirectly) taking a risk. Perhaps most people will trust MD and your reputation and buy the book and engage with your latest program, without wanting to understand the scientific base. These are your “trust me” customers.

However some of us will want to implement what you have taught us about always investigating the primary sources behind a health recommendation and we will wish to do so at a cost that is no more than that associated with most other books or academic journal articles. Perhaps if we cannot easily do so, by your own standards, it will result in us doubting your recommendations.

In this respect, your interests perhaps diverge from those of your publisher. I have purchased the book and made your publisher happy. They may think that your net present value as an author is confined to this publication. Therefore I have no further net present value as a customer. If, however, they or you think that I (and others like me) have any net present value as a customer into the future, then I suggest you address the issue I have raised.

Noted.

I say as a sycophant get the Eades with or without Mikes neoprene girdle on the Networks.
I’ve met the Eades and they are wonderfully humanly irreverant.

We need more humanity and less pricks/oiks like Dr Snoz.

I shall silence.

The Wreckless Pen !

@Christina Sillavan – I had a friend who was under the 110 pound limit and gave blood regularly, she just slipped small weights in her pockets. I’m under 110 myself, and have never given blood so I don’t know if they would pat you down or anything.

OT the Daily Mail is reporting that palmitic acid, from saturated fat, shuts off the satiation switch in the brain in rats and mice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213753/Junk-food-alters-brain-chemistry-leads-bingeing.html

I know 1) it’s a rodent study but 2) it flies against everything we know think about saturated fats and of course a study like this will be used to push more low-fat dairy and foods on young children.

I posted on this subject a while back. Carbohydrates cause much more of a problem than palmitic acid. And, palmitic acid is a saturated fat that is made by the body when it consumes too many carbs.

I just came across another study reported today by Reuters which proports that when we eat saturated fat, our brains get “hit” by the fatty acids which then causes us to become resistant to insulin and leptin. The conclusion then, of course, is that you overeat because your brain doesn’t know when it’s had enough. The two culprits cited in the article are hamburgers and ice cream. Strange, when I eat a juicy hamburger without the bun, I feel satisfied for hours afterwards and have no cravings. I eat much less on a low carb diet then I normally would on a high carb diet, and I do not have the cravings for sugar and food as I did. It would be interesting to see who is funding the study.

High triglyceride levels in the blood do impair the ability of leptin to work on the brain, but saturated fat doesn’t cause elevated triglycerides, carbohydrates do. I posted on this subject here.