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Monthly Archives: January 2004
Low Carb Critics Keep On Keeping On
Just when you think that low-carb has gotten a lot of new respect in the mainstream media, you get a whiff of the old garbage that used to be seen whenever there was an article about it. Before the new … Continue reading
Orange Juice Defamation
Looks like suing is the next resort that some interest groups are entertaining! I hadn’t thought this was a possibility, but i guess I should have. This article describes the Florida Citrus Department’s new “get tough” policy. I can’t imagine … Continue reading
American Idol 3
Having avoided the first two instances of this very popular show, I somehow have managed to catch the first two episodes of their first season. Although entertaining on a certain level, I don’t know how many more of these “audition” … Continue reading
Bloomberg Brave or Stupid?
It’s been a good 11 or 12 years since I actually called New York City “home” so I haven’t followed Bloomberg as a mayor. A recent piece by the 24-hour local news station NY1, however, just came to my attention. … Continue reading
Et tu Colette?
Is the owner of Atkins Nutritionals undoing 30 years of progress forged by the outspoken doctor has tried to make in the popular mindset of what is and what isn’t healthy to eat? For those who haven’t heard yet, a … Continue reading
Low-Carb Foods: Cost more, taste worse
This article, published by the Manchester Times, derides low-carb products: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1614&dept_id=516591&newsid=10826770&PAG=461&rfi=9 The main thing I take issue with in this article is the author’s obsession with calories. We have been told over and over again by the old guard nutritionists … Continue reading
Low-carb teas: the next big thing?
A humorous article by Heidi Gaiser, poking fun at all the labeling hijinx was just published in Northern Montana’s Daily Interlake: http://www.dailyinterlake.com/NewsEngine/SelectStory_AD.tpl?command=search&db=news.db&eqskudata=58-814651-56 (No longer available) Actually, this article does point out something about the current craze to label everything that … Continue reading
How low-carb should we go?
An article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on what should be counted as a carb and creating legal definitions for food manufacturers to put on labels: http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/0104/18carbs.html The article is a good one and hopefully there will be some good guidelines … Continue reading
Food Industry Counts on Carbs
So, I have decided, at least for the moment, to try to post whatever articles I find in the media concerning low-carb and, if warrented, comment on them. Here’s the first one, an article from the Minneapolis-St.Paul Start Tribune titled … Continue reading
Middlesex
Middlesex, for those who’ve been living in a cave (or just watching tv and playing video games), won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year. Penned by Jeffery Eugenides, author of the widely acclaimed Virgin Suicides, the book covers the … Continue reading
