LISTEN (5 Minutes) SHELLEY’S NOTE: It was all over the internet – the Canadian Broadcast Corporation did an interview with a man from Talon, Texas, in Pecos County, where the man explained why the town of Talon is adding sugar to the drinking water so that more people will drink it. How much sugar?…
Nuttall & Gannon – Dreamfield Pasta – Low Carb? Scientific Study says No! (interview includes transcript)
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“Our data is very reproducible and we don’t understand what would account for the different between our results and theirs.” Mary Gannon, about the new Nuttall/Gannon study showing no difference in the blood sugar response of people when they ate regular pasta, and when they ate Dreamfields “low carb” pasta.
Dreamfields Pasta – “Low-Carb” or Not? – Gannon and Nuttall Publish New Study
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Listen (30 minutes) Shelley’s note – SEE NEXT POST FOR FULL TRANSCRIPT AND AN AUDIO FILE WITH AN INTRODUCTION. Nutrition Today has just published a new study by Mary Gannon and Frank Nuttall that challenges the assertion, and advertising, by Dreamfields Pasta that their pasta does less to raise blood sugars than regular pastas…
Thermogenesis – Not So Good For Health – Ron Rosedale
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LISTEN (30 Minutes) Ron Rosedale, there are about a thousand ways that a person can look at health research and a thousand details to check. It’s so confusing. To understand how we work and how our metabolism works, what if we start by figuring out what questions to ask? RON ROSEDALE: – Sorting through confusion—that’s…
Western States 100 – Low Carber Wins Ultramarathon – Steve Phinney and Jeff Volek Study
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Earlier this summer, Steve Phinney and Jeff Volek, authors of The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance, headed to the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run
Ron Rosedale/Dean Ornish Debate from 1999
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LISTEN (30 minutes) Well over a decade ago, in 1999, Ron Rosedale and Dean Ornish agreed to meet for a debate that I recorded for KGNU Boulder/Denver about what’s healthier – a low fat, or a high fat diet.
July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test – Passed!
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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsHere are the numbers from my July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test. In this test, I passed and have, according to medical measurements, normal blood sugars throughout the test. In 2005, I failed two glucose tolerance tests. That earned me the diagnosis…
Steve Phinney: A Calorie is Not Just a Calorie
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LISTEN (20 Minutes) Steve Phinney, what you think about the new study from Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital about “A Calorie is not just a Calorie.” STEVE PHINNEY: Well there is that (the concept that a Calorie is not just a Calorie). That’s what grabbed a lot of the news, and that’s a…
Ron Rosedale Comments on New Harvard Study
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Ron Rosedale challenges the new Harvard Study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He says the study itself has many good points regarding the importance of noting that not all calories are equal, and reducing carbs may be more important than reducing fat. But in press reports, he’s concerned…
Steve Phinney: Art & Science of Low Carb Performance, and “A Calorie is NOT just a Calorie”
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Listen here for a 55-minute, boisterous and mostly unedited live call-in show on KGNU Boulder/Denver with Steve Phinney, author of The Art & Science of Low Carb Living and The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance (a book on low carb eating for athletes). This was a show to raise…
