My blogosphere friends surely know who i'm referring to, though i haven't read him in over two years, and only referred to him recently because of one of Fred T's recent posts. Hell, even Wooo hasn't thought it worthwhile to blog about his BS in a long time! :-)
Looking through someone else's blog list just now, though, i saw his latest title "how to eat less" or some such thing.
LATE-BREAKING NEWS!!! I DON'T WANT TO EAT LESS!
Eating less is bad for me! Eating less gives me hypothyroid symptoms! Eating less makes me cold, and feel like shit!
To those who want to eat less -- haven't you tried that before? How well did it work; was it sustainable? Are you deluded enough to think that calorie restriction makes you immortal, or do you get a feeling of nobility from suffering, like a medieval religious fanatic?
Eat a very-low-carb diet and you WILL eat less, but you'll also feel less hungry. After you conquer those potato- and rice-cravings (ie, become fat/ketone-adapted), you will also crave ALL glucose-raising carbs less. Dump sugar, wheat, and industrial seed-oils, and the temptation to snack generally drops like a rock. Fill up on lamb chops and your favorite vegetable, and be amazed at how long it is before you're hungry again.
On VLC i find myself looking at my daily calories and wondering what i might have in the kitchen that could tempt me to get my intake UP to where it needs to be to lose weight more efficiently!
I actually was hungry this morning! It's rare that i have any appetite before noon, but i celebrated with a big plate of bacon and eggs today, and enjoyed that ghrelin rush while breakfast was cooking. Of course, i wasn't interest in lunch though, more's the pity....
And that guy wants me to eat LESS? How can someone be an obesity specialist and not realize that lowering intake tends to cause lowered metabolism as well? Pathological neurobiology, too? The ONLY piece of work by Ancel Keys that wasn't a pile of horseshit -- the starvation experiment -- showed what happened to healthy young men when they were eating the kind of things "the good doctor" wants YOU to eat ... oh, and they were "moving more" too! If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, what does that make HIM?
It's indeed a bizarre world some people live in.
ReplyDeleteAnother "good Dr" that has a very good knack of making me want to punch my pc monitor - http://tinyurl.com/kgxwtvc
Especially when you get to the tired Pollan quote. I assume "pithy" is synonymous with "stupid and bloody annoying".
:-) i can see why you might want to punch him through your monitor, but it's too bad the monitor would take the brunt of it. another genius of RESEARCH, i see -- they know all the answers it seems ... but only if you're one of their lab animals.
DeleteIs the good doctor still going on with Food Reward Friday? I've started a series of posts called Fry-days: real, LC food you can fry up, enjoy and get full on. Unlike some of the concoctions he's posted, my cooking actually tastes good. Of course, if you let yourself get hungry enough, you'll eat anything.
ReplyDeletei only see what he posts when i look through other people's blog lists, but now you mention it, i don't think i've noticed FRFs for some time. i like your idea better!
DeleteI find the good doctor kinda sad. Some months ago he went through his entire archive and deleted more than a hundred posts from way back. stuff he changed his mind on since going against Taubes. How pathetic he's had to wipe out his past sins. Haven't read anything there since.
ReplyDeleteIt's the FTA site that's truly abhorrent nowadays. Some of the claims there about (v)lc are just mad.
He is getting duller and duller, in the process of the war with Taubes he lost a lot of what he had before. Peter did him in eventually just by exercising his sense of humor.
DeleteWhat! The good doctor had some good stuff from way back. Maybe Google has it saved.
DeleteAnd Nikoley v. Taubes? Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight.
After SG took down some god staff, what is left? An empty pale shell of ambitious but not particularly bright individual? A fitting image fro the crusader against evils of fast food (which just sells what customers demand).
DeleteReminds the situation with Don Matez, who fell under the influence of his new vegetarian girl friend and turned from paleo blogger into a vegetarian zealot , then took down all his former posts when he defended the meat eating, even the one with explanations about the differences between Gorilla GI tract and human one, like he suddenly discovered some new anatomy information on the subject. No, Google doesn't have it any longer.
once upon a time, I had a good opinion of "TGD" ... but what turned me against him was the sneaky way he changed his mind about omega-6s! he didn't say "I've reconsidered my position" (like even Kresser did) -- he just quietly removed the post with the GOOD information on it, and started torpedoeing people in comment sections who were using his previous reasoning!
DeleteI consider him spineless, derivative and full of hubris, a toady, a snob, and a snake (in the bad way). his loss of reputation and prominence is thoroughly EARNED.
I've always had a mixed attitude toward RN; I think he's lost the edge he once had, though. "there was a little girl and she had a little curl / right in the middle of her forehead. / when she was good she was very very good / and when she was bad she was horrid." ;-)
I think RN versus Taubes is pretty much the same thing as Julian Mitchel explaining to Gary Taubes laws of thermodynamics. Personally, I have nothing against Richard, but he is not a very rational person.
DeleteWell said!
ReplyDeletethanks, Almond! btw, your blog doesn't let me access anymore.... :-(
DeleteI've deleted the blog. I read back to what I wrote before and it was cringe-worthy. I'm currently working on refining my thoughts before I start blogging again ;)
DeleteI am eating the grub my close to 90 years of age father in law eats. Meat and three veg and a full English breakfast every day of his life. He walks miles every day, and with all the floods in the UK and bad weather, he walks up and down the stairs in his sheltered old people's apartments block.
ReplyDeleteThis ain't rocket science. Eat good grub and get off your butt.
Regards Eddie
walking miles a day at 90 is impressive! my mother is 90 and has slowed down a bit. use it or lose it!
DeleteI'm late to the game.... but I think I can translate here... glad I did not spit coffee on my laptop screen.... bringing a knife to a gun fight... Oh boy. Interesting stuff. I think I'll keep drinking my cup of joe and reading....
ReplyDelete:-) it's a bit safer reading on the 'net if you use a tablet! the screen wipes right off....
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