The New York Times has launched a series titled, Scam or Not? A recent article in that series examined the ketogenic diet. Likewise, Julia Belluz, the excellent science reporter for Vox.com, published her recent assessment of research on ketogenic diets. A fair summary of both pieces might be, “yes there…
The keto diet, sometime referred to as a “high fat, low carbohydrate diet,” was very helpful to me in my initial stages of weight loss. But I’ve come to think of keto as a transitional diet rather than a destination or steady state, which you must maintain indefinitely after achieving…
At some point in the mid-2000s, grazing entered the nutritional lexicon as an agent of weight control. It was intuitive: if you never let your stomach get too full, then you would stop putting on weight. Bulk in the diet, a full stomach, eating to satiety, was fingered as a…
“Super food” is a pop nutrition term, generally applied to the vegetable du jour (e.g., asparagus, avocado), or to some exotic tropical fruit of which you’ve never heard. The idea: there are some foods which are super-duper, a cut above, far more nutritious than most of what goes on your…
… now does that sound like a scam headline or what? All it needs is the obligatory, “using this one weird trick.” But I did not use any trick. I followed a procedure that required some discipline. And I may have benefited from a specific physiology consequent to my ethnicity.…
In an earlier post, I introduced the carb-sharp ratio, defined as [(carbohydrate grams – fiber grams) / fiber grams]. I pitched this ratio as a tool for selecting foods to help in weight loss, and I aimed it squarely at people like me, who have no medical issues around food,…
This post is a mash-up of finance and nutrition. The finance piece: an adaptation of the Sharpe ratio to food selection and meal construction. The nutrition piece: the importance of limiting “free carbs” in your diet. Essential background reading is Dr. Fung’s book, The Obesity Code. Quick takeaway from Dr.…