Twelve Black Code Monkeys

As you may have read here, I post from time to time about articles in the press about low carb and related news, issues revolving around this (the elicit release of the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins’ coroner’s report and subsequent attempt at smearing him and thus the low-carb movement), etc.

Some of you may be wondering where I find all this stuff. Although not all of it comes from here, I thought I’d let everyone in a a resource I use not just for news relating to low-carb but other topics as well. Google! Actually, Google News. It’s a database of news stories going back months and perhaps years. You can search for articles on keywords just as you would search for web pages. Not only that, but you can create a “news alert” that will email you whenever an article comes into their database which matches your search criteria. I have one of these for “low carb” and when I first created this a couple of months ago I might get a few of these per week. Now it’s more like several per day. Many of these are very similar: local TV news affiliates putting up articles that match the very brief segments they do on a local Subway offering low-carb wraps, or a local supermarket offering low-carb products. Much of these I actually skip over because I don’t think they are all that interesting.

I’m not big on low-carb products, I’m much more excited about the emerging information regarding the benefits of low carb eating and how the critics are scrambling and getting more and more desperate to smear this lifestyle instead of working with it to make it optimal. That being said, I did come across a site the other day that puts out news daily about low carb, somewhat similar to what you can find with Google News searches, but with added commentary and I’m sure also a careful eye for the best of multiple stories about the subject. It’s called Low Carb Freedom and was created by Katherine Prouty, a long-time web publisher.