Posts Tagged ‘carbs’

Nutrition Theater – Some Things To Watch To Help You Become More Healthy

Books are great, but sometimes we just want to kick back and watch a movie or lecture. Here are some food based videos that I recommend. Motivation To Reduce Carbohydrates Fat Head is the first movie you should see. It is highly entertaining and does a brilliant job explaining how bad science and political nonsense [...]

Good Calories, Bad Calories is the Best Book Ever Written on Nutrition

Remember that Top 5 Diet Books post I wrote back in July?  All those books can take a HUGE step backwards.  I now have a new favorite nutrition book. Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is a stellar piece of research.  For me this book connects all the dots between the evolutionary nutrition model, my own experiences [...]

More Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia

After posting Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia, I returned to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to look for more patterns to support or refute by observations. The first thing I want to clarify is that Malaysian women are overweight, not necessarily obese.  This is not New Orleans.  However, these women are clearly heavier than those in Thailand [...]

Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia

* Note that my Malaysian observations were all inside Kuala Lumpur.  Things may be different outside the city. Malaysia has a problem that its neighbor Thailand doesn’t: obesity.  Wherever I went in Thailand the people were trim.  Age didn’t matter.  Here in Malaysia, the majority of women are overweight.  Both countries have a similar diet, [...]

What Doctor Kurt Said

One of my new favorite blogs is PaNu. It’s tagline is paleolithic nutrition – duplicating the evolutionary metabolic milieu. At times it is a tough read, but I’ve got enough background reading this stuff to be fascinated in learning more about evolutionary nutrition from the prospective of a medical doctor. I’m currently half-way through the [...]