Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet
I thought I would point out this interesting study on a Mediterranean version of a ketogenic diet. I am not a big fan of ketogenic diets, but in this study they went from 100% of patients having the...
View ArticleComing Events
I am in a brief blogging blast right now while I am caught up at work. Then it will be back to hibernation. Also, I’m hoping to get a permanent page up on cardiovascular disease later this summer. One...
View ArticlePaleo Fatty Acid Ratios
I was looking some more at the East African Paleo diet paper. Specifically, I was looking at the ratios of saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat. The paper presents various...
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Why Is Butter Bad?
I’ve been thinking more about the study I previously referred to that shows how butter lowers flow-mediated dilation. I mean, it’s right there in black-and-white (and free full-text) that consuming...
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Why Is Red Meat Possibly Bad?
Here’s a paper I’ve been puzzled about for a while. The paper concludes that “bison consumption results in a reduced atherogenic risk compared to beef”. In the paper, they show that regular...
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Why Is Butter Bad? Part II
To test my idea about the unsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio being important for cardiovascular health, I wanted to focus in on this study. This study, unlike other ones I’ve cited, directly compares...
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More on Unsaturated versus Saturated Fat
Here’s one new study in press on the importance of the unsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio. What they did was reduce saturated fat and add macadamia nuts in order to improve the ratio. At baseline,...
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The Atkins Diet and Flow-Mediated Dilation
Time for another butter-buster. This study (full-text) compared a low-fat diet to an Atkins diet. It was a six-week study that looked at various markers. The result: the Atkins diet significantly...
View ArticleThe Atkins Diet and FMD Part II
Here’s one more study on the Atkins diet and flow-mediated dilation. This one was for 52 weeks. The result: “FMD decreased in LC (5.7 +/- 0.7% to 3.7 +/- 0.5%” (LC = low-carbohydrate). So at some...
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The Hazelnut Study
Turning to diets that actually increase vascular health, I wanted to focus on the recent hazelnut study. This study increased flow-mediated dilation by 56%! There are a number of interesting things...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Paleo Religion: Check Your Brain at the Door
Now that Paleo has gone a bit mainstream, I see some craziness beginning to show. Certain people seem to be embracing the diet in an almost religious way. Chris has written about this lately. For...
View ArticleThe Clean Gut Diet
I flipped through a new book, “The Clean Gut“, at the store today. This isn’t a full review or anything since I didn’t buy the book. I flipped to the diet plan part of the book to see what foods were...
View ArticleThe Nutritional Dark Ages
I remember reading a few years back how nutrition was in the “dark ages” pre-Paleo. My feeling is that we are still in it. There is just so much that is unknown about Paleo diets and human diets in...
View ArticleDoing the Paleo Math
Here’s one thing I’ve been curious about, and it relates to a previous post on calories. I was looking through some of the meal plans in Art Devany’s book, “The New Evolution Diet”. Here is one day’s...
View ArticleLean Meat & Vegetables
I looked through a number of the new diet books at the local bookstore the other day. Though they all had their own twist on the subject, they all essentially recommended the same thing: lean meat and...
View ArticleEven Less Calories
I also looked through Bob Harper’s new book (trainer from the Biggest Loser). He claims that: “experts ‘keep people in the dark about calorie restriction, but they all know the truth’. His rule? ‘Cut...
View ArticleLean Meat & Vegetables II
I saw an article in the paper about Billy Beck, trainer to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and other celebrities. I wondered what he recommended as far as meals to lose fat. I found this video online. At...
View ArticleLean Meat & Vegetables Forever
The last few posts have focused on the current mainstream dietary prescription of lean meat and green vegetables. The question now is after you get your 1,000 calories of lean meat and vegetables and...
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High-Protein to the Rescue (Almost)
I was looking back at an older study that studied high-protein diets. It compared a fat-restricted ad libitum diet that was either high in protein or carbohydrates. Here is a graph from the study:...
View ArticleTwo-Year Paleo Fail?
The recent study by Mats Ryberg and company on the Paleolithic diet got a lot of attention. But here’s one by that group that seems to have been overlooked. Take a look at this record for clinical...
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