A friend has informed me she received an email from the address [email protected]. That is NOT ME. I have a call in to my attorney. In the meanwhile, please either ignore any email from this address or heap upon them the scorn due

Get Undoctored!

Apr 11th, 2017

Six years ago, Dr. William Davis changed the national conversation about diet with Wheat Belly. I was lucky enough to score a review copy. I was blown away. Having been low carb for well over a decade, wheat had not been a major player in my d

Guess What “Cane Sugar” Is?

Mar 30th, 2017

“Cane sugar” is having a little moment, especially in the beverage market. Several “health food store” brands of soda — the sort of thing that makes a mockery of the very term “health food” — proudly list cane sugar on their labels. And now th

HAH! Don’t Want To Be an I-Told-You-So…

Mar 11th, 2017

At the beginning of the year, I posted about telomeres, their importance to longevity, and the new promise of telomerase activators, which appear to be able to quite literally reverse aging. That is, of course, an alluring idea. This long-time

How To Say This Without Being Political?

Mar 10th, 2017

I have for nearly 20 years now resolutely kept my politics out of my writing regarding low carb diets and health. So I need to say this without taking sides. Bear with me.We in the US are currently in a huge, acrimonious debate about health ca

What I’ve Learned About Pressure Cooking

Mar 3rd, 2017

I’ve been working on low carb/keto pressure cooker recipes. To be honest, I started doing this because I was getting requests for low carbohydrate, LCHF pressure cooker recipes at an increasing pace. I’d seen the infomercial about the Power Pr

Truth In Advertising

Feb 28th, 2017

As you know, I am acutely aware of food ads, the weasel words and the bait-and-switch they so often use. But I just now saw an ad that told a home truth. It asked “Why do you snack? Because you have nothing better to do?”It turned out to be an

On Sugar and Slavery

Feb 19th, 2017

Steeped as we are in Civil War history, not to mention Hollywood images of the Old South, when Americans think of slavery we tend to think of cotton plantations. But the majority of people stolen from Africa and enslaved were not brought t

“Clean” and Other Buzz Words

Feb 15th, 2017

Long-time readers know that I pay close attention to food advertising, partly because I write about food, and partly because my daddy was Don Draper. (Mad Men fans: Really a cross between Don Draper and Pete Campbell.) The buzz words leap out

Valentine’s Day

Feb 8th, 2017

The longer I do this, the more I feel I write about the same things over and over. But then, so does everyone else — how many of the “women’s magazines” have had articles re Valentine’s Day this month? Anyway, there are always newbies looking

STRESS!

Feb 3rd, 2017

Just recently I’ve had several queries about dealing with stress eating. Coincidentally, I’ve been coping with unusual stress recently myself. I have not resorted to eating chips or cookies; quite honestly it never occurs to me. Instead, my ni