tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41431719391670166.post3388467237929370149..comments2016-01-28T12:58:20.616-08:00Comments on Low Carb Art and Science: New Yorker throws in the fact-checking towel for health reportingagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41431719391670166.post-26229989582154221042009-07-28T10:21:27.240-07:002009-07-28T10:21:27.240-07:00Foie gras and caviar aren't good examples - ha...Foie gras and caviar aren't good examples - hardly anyone can afford more than a couple of tablespoons of each at time (but, man, foie gras is good - liver pate gone to heaven). Your general point is correct, of course.<br /><br />intellectual pariahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41431719391670166.post-54938855931094512342009-07-16T01:59:43.869-07:002009-07-16T01:59:43.869-07:00I don't know -- you'd have to ask him. Mor...I don't know -- you'd have to ask him. More like uncommitted, is my guess.<br /><br />"Little meat" is a sure way to malnutrition, unless you load up on eggs and cheese (although if you're afraid of meat, you're probably afraid of that too), and so is "lotsa fruit" (sugar). I was pretty uncommitted too before I read Good Calories, Bad Calories, mostly because he summarizes everything discovered from roughly 1850 to the present.<br /><br />Otherwise, you don't understand what is known -- for example, that serum cholesterol and even LDL or HDL doesn't predict anything really, but that it's the size and density of the LDL particles. Also, what makes you have more of the smaller and denser type, and what dietary factors drive that (carbs).<br /><br />If you just follow health and nutrition reporting -- even if you read through the studies -- no one will mention that, even though it revolutionized the heart disease field and has been known for roughly 20 - 25 years. As Tabues says, health and nutrition reporting is some of the worst out there.<br /><br />I never heard about the havoc that glycation can wreak (Taubes only mentions it in a couple of paragraphs, but it still blew my mind).agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41431719391670166.post-3306860670739870652009-07-15T21:49:33.117-07:002009-07-15T21:49:33.117-07:00Is razib more skeptical of the whole low carb high...Is razib more skeptical of the whole low carb high fat thing?<br /><br />cuz when he first introduced your new blog he didn't really endorse your views, and he also mentioned Futurepundit as an alternative source for diet advice. i enjoy reading Futurepundit, but Parker seems to favor the more mainstream "lotsa veggies/fruits, little meat" view. Parker also gets enthralled with every new "study" reported in the media no matter how weak or biased it is.quzzternoreply@blogger.com