Tag: carbs

Carb Wars in the Blogosphere

I read a lot of nutritional blogs and it seems a growing topic is the disagreement on the role of carbohydrates in the diet. Some are adamant about low-carb and others are equally adamant against low-carb diets. It is the … [continue reading]

Good Calories, Bad Calories is the Best Book Ever Written on Nutrition

** 2016 UPDATE: I was SO WRONG about this book. See the critical review here. ***

Remember that Top 5 Diet Books post I wrote back in July? All those books can take a HUGE step backward. I now … [continue reading]

More Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia

After posting Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia, I returned to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to look for more patterns to support or refute by observations.

The first thing I want to clarify is that Malaysian women are overweight, not … [continue reading]

Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia

* Note that my Malaysian observations were all inside Kuala Lumpur. Things may be different outside the city.

Malaysia has a problem that its neighbor Thailand doesn’t: obesity. Wherever I went in Thailand the people were trim. Age didn’t … [continue reading]

Suffer The Little Children

Yesterday I made the following dish for lunch.

  • Broiled Wild Salmon with a mayo seal.
  • Fresh cut green beans cooked with onions, garlic and hot peppers in tallow rendered from a grass-fed cow.

The dish was excellent and easy to … [continue reading]