by Michael O'Neill | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Perhaps nothing is more damaging to the new low-carber than the intentional spread of fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding the state of ketosis compared to the dangerous state of ketoacidosis. The former is a natural and healthy state of existence, the latter is a...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 14, 2012 | Motivation
Name: wannabeasupermodel Starting Weight: 200 Current Weight: 130 Duration of Weightloss: 15 months Exercise: running 3x weekly, occasional weight lifting So how do you lose 70 pounds and completely transform your body? According to wannabeasupermodel, it’s not...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hello low-carb friends! I saw a tremendous spike in traffic and figured that could only mean one thing: Jimmy gave me a shout out. Thanks, Jimmy! 😛
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 7, 2012 | Low Carb Products
By switching to a ketogenic low-carb diet, you are essentially transitioning yourself from a water-retaining diet, to a water-flushing diet. There are a variety of reasons for this, including reduction of inflammation (water tends to be bound up in inflammation) and...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 6, 2012 | video
A new CBS 60 Minutes Segment with Sanjay Gupta again looks at the role of sugar in many illnesses from from cancer to diabetes to obesity. New recommendations for _maximum_ sugar consumption is 150 calories sugar a day for men, and 100 calories sugar a day for women....
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton (Associate Professor, Psychology) published an interesting blog post today on the subject of prejudicial attitudes towards the obese. In it, he asserts: […]Prejudice against fat people continues to be one of the deepest and most widely...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 1, 2012 | exercise, research
Gretchen Reynolds has a nice piece today on the diet vs. exercise schism that many of us come to terms with on our weight loss journeys. Citing two new pieces of research (one of which has already been covered here), she notes how research continues to suggest that...
by Michael O'Neill | Jul 27, 2012 | research
Recent research published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition calls into question the notion that very low-carb ketogenic diets are unsuitable for athletes because they will not be able to achieve commensurate levels of performance without...
by Michael O'Neill | Jul 27, 2012 | research
You know the ones…they are always invoked in the context of, “You’re overweight because you’re a victim of Western Civilization. If you only moved around like our hunter-gatherer ancestors, you’d burn more energy and you’d be...
