Alzheimers and “Severe Brain Degeneration” linked to excessive Carbohydrate Intake?

Today I read an interesting article on LiveScience.com titled “Obese People Have ‘Severe Brain Degeneration“. I couldn’t find the link to the actual UCLA study text (sorry – please let me know if you find it) it cites, but you’re likely to see many articles parroting the same basic info that the LiveScience.com one did. In fact, as of this writing, Google News reports that over 158 publications have published articles on this study so far today – with a helluva lot more coming I’m sure.

What really DOES surprise me is that no-one has really tried to draw any conclusions from this study…

Another Worthless Study and Pointless Anti-Fat Article from the New York Times

Ah, yes, here we go again. Bad science reigns at The New York times ‘Well Blog’ this week by Tara Parker-Pope (technically, it was from last week, but I just discovered it on Slashdot). Its sad that the NYT was also the original publication where Gary Taubes published his brilliant ‘What if its all been a Big Fat Lie’ article (which is the exact opposite of what this article is trying to say).

I guess that’s some fair and unbiased journalism – we give credibility to all kinds of information: right, wrong or otherwise!

Anyways… into the rat maze we go again…

Why is “low-carb” such a dirty word in the health and fitness industry?

I know that YESTERDAY was “Question Day” here at Low Carb Fight Club, but I really have to ask – what the hell is the deal with “the industry” and the term low-carb? It has such a stigma against it, I even think that those who are (what I’m going to call) “low carb proponents” almost go out of their way to temper their messages thusly – “Carbs are bad, but not that bad – we need lots of vegetables! Those are good”.

Why is it that we have to pretend to “have our cake and eat it too” (no pun intended)?

Jogging Overworked Joints to Dust – and other Bike Path Observations

I took a long walk on a local bike path yesterday afternoon. It was a BEAUTIFUL day here in Albany, New York and I was out to waste as much of it being outside as possible (I only wish I had a brought a fishing pole along, maybe next time). I also broke out the new FlipCam Ultra HD and took some interesting and random footage – mostly just testing the cam and out seeing what it is capable of (and very NOT capable of).

But I noticed a trend that upsets me on several levels…

Americans keep getting fatter – What a Shocker. So where do we go from here?

Maybe we need a grassroots anti-obesity campaign – we can call it “Health gone Viral”.

A story hit Reuters last week regarding the growing (ahem) trend of American obesity. Apparently that’s the “legacy” we’re leaving future generations… more and more fat asses, bigger pants, giant underwear, and slower mile times in High School gym class. Awesome.

What are we going to do about it? Well, that’s much more complicated than measuring waistlines.