"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."--Bjarne Stroustrup
I want to apologize for problems on my website(carbwarscookbook.com). My husband's computer died a year or so ago and he lost the codes that we used when we set it up, so I have not been able to update it since then and most of the links no longer work.
I've also been having trouble with my blogging platform--sometimes I can post, sometimes I can't, and sometimes I can post but the results look a little weird. I may have to start over from scratch on both sites. Since my new book is due out soon and I had planned to put up revised versions of both sites at that time, I am going to wait a while longer to work on a fix. Thank you for your patience.
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker, Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Register to Win at LC Foods
I told you about an exciting, new, low-carb food company in a previous post here: http://carbwars.blogspot.com/search?q=LC+Food I recently had an e-mail from Glen saying they are almost ready to launch their initial product line, and they would like to get your input to help them decide which items to make available first. Those who help them with this market research will have a chance to win a FREE product from LC Foods!
Here is how it works:
Simply go to www.HoldTheCarbs.com, register, and look over all the products on the site. Select the ones you would be most interested in and likely to purchase (if the price is right, of course). E-mail LC Foods owner, Glen Frederich, at LCFoodsCorp@aol.com and give him your list. LC Foods will send 10 lucky responders a FREE, no-obligation product from their wish list.
Don't forget to register on the site as that will guarantee that you will be notified and given the first chance to place an order with LC Foods when they announce their Grand Opening. Everyone who registers will be notified when a new product becomes available and will also receive exclusive specials.
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
Disclaimer: I have received product samples from LC Foods.
Here is how it works:
Simply go to www.HoldTheCarbs.com, register, and look over all the products on the site. Select the ones you would be most interested in and likely to purchase (if the price is right, of course). E-mail LC Foods owner, Glen Frederich, at LCFoodsCorp@aol.com and give him your list. LC Foods will send 10 lucky responders a FREE, no-obligation product from their wish list.
Don't forget to register on the site as that will guarantee that you will be notified and given the first chance to place an order with LC Foods when they announce their Grand Opening. Everyone who registers will be notified when a new product becomes available and will also receive exclusive specials.
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
Disclaimer: I have received product samples from LC Foods.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
All Calories No Longer Equal at Weight Watchers, Cattlemen Fight Back, Pork Producers Change Slogan, and Harvard Says, "End the Low-Fat Myth"
"Calorie counting has become unhelpful," according to David Kirchoff, president of Weight Watchers International. The company's website has announced a change in their point system.
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The old plan allowed dieters to eat whatever they wanted as long as they kept portions under control using points based on calorie content.
The new PointsPlus system puts higher point values on fat and empty calories and gives lower points to foods that are high in protein or fiber, which make the body work harder to convert them into energy. The point values went up for most high-carb foods, which are "more easily absorbed and turned into fat," but fructose-laden fruit and all but the starchiest vegetables are assigned zero points and are now considered "free" foods. (Eat all the bananas you want and lose weight? Good luck with that. But at least they are no longer saying, "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.")
Read more here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2042344,00.html#ixzz1G7xXKEBT
Here's an interesting announcement from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. It's high time they quit apologizing and showed a little fight:
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Beef Industry Carves a Course; Cattlemen's Group Promotes Red Meat, Trains Recruits to Win Over Consumers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703842004576163243369084776.html?mod=dist_smartbrief&mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6.
At the seventh annual World of Healthy Flavors Conference in Napa CA, Nutrition experts from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) told food industry leaders, "It's time to end the low-fat myth." (The conference is co-hosted by HSPH and the Culinary Institute of American.) Walter Willett and Dariush Mosaffarian of HSPH, along with Ron Krauss of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, presented a panel called "Focus of Fat." They told the audience to avoid the term "low fat," since diets low in fat are often high in sodium and carbohydrates. Instead they encouraged chefs to cut out trans fats and focus on educating consumers about choosing healthful fats.
Dr. Krauss made it clear that his definition of "healthy fat" does not include saturated or animal fat, however, he added " …even saturated fat is not so bad compared to refined carbohydrates and if we were to eliminate it from our diet we would also be eliminating many foods that are also rich in healthy fats, like fish, whose omega-3 fatty acids are vital to good health."
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/coverage-in-the-media/time-to-stop-talking-about-low-fat-say-hsph-nutrition-experts/index.html
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
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The old plan allowed dieters to eat whatever they wanted as long as they kept portions under control using points based on calorie content.
The new PointsPlus system puts higher point values on fat and empty calories and gives lower points to foods that are high in protein or fiber, which make the body work harder to convert them into energy. The point values went up for most high-carb foods, which are "more easily absorbed and turned into fat," but fructose-laden fruit and all but the starchiest vegetables are assigned zero points and are now considered "free" foods. (Eat all the bananas you want and lose weight? Good luck with that. But at least they are no longer saying, "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.")
Read more here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2042344,00.html#ixzz1G7xXKEBT
Here's an interesting announcement from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. It's high time they quit apologizing and showed a little fight:
.
Beef Industry Carves a Course; Cattlemen's Group Promotes Red Meat, Trains Recruits to Win Over Consumers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703842004576163243369084776.html?mod=dist_smartbrief&mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6.
At the seventh annual World of Healthy Flavors Conference in Napa CA, Nutrition experts from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) told food industry leaders, "It's time to end the low-fat myth." (The conference is co-hosted by HSPH and the Culinary Institute of American.) Walter Willett and Dariush Mosaffarian of HSPH, along with Ron Krauss of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, presented a panel called "Focus of Fat." They told the audience to avoid the term "low fat," since diets low in fat are often high in sodium and carbohydrates. Instead they encouraged chefs to cut out trans fats and focus on educating consumers about choosing healthful fats.
Dr. Krauss made it clear that his definition of "healthy fat" does not include saturated or animal fat, however, he added " …even saturated fat is not so bad compared to refined carbohydrates and if we were to eliminate it from our diet we would also be eliminating many foods that are also rich in healthy fats, like fish, whose omega-3 fatty acids are vital to good health."
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/coverage-in-the-media/time-to-stop-talking-about-low-fat-say-hsph-nutrition-experts/index.html
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
Monday, March 7, 2011
Gary Taubes on Dr. Oz Today
I'm not a follower of the Dr. Oz daytime television show, but I won't miss it today because Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat, is scheduled to appear. The promo for the show says, "The man who thinks everything Dr. Oz says is wrong." It is scheduled to air at 3:00 PM today on the West Coast, but check your local listing for the channel and time in your area.
(C) Judy Barnes Baker, Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
(C) Judy Barnes Baker, Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
LESSONS ABOUT OBESITY FROM FAT MONKEYS
An experimental drug that dramatically reduced the appetite of rodents caused obese baboons to double or triple their food intake and is now being considered as a treatment for cancer patients and those who need to gain weight. Monkeys are better research models because they are more like humans than rats or mice, not only physiologically, but also in eating behavior; they will eat when they are bored, even if they are not hungry. Fat monkeys are providing some interesting findings about what causes obesity and diabetes.
"Nonhuman primates don't lie to you," said neuroscientist, Dr. Kevin L. Grove, who directs the "obese resource" at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. "We are trying to induce the couch-potato style. We believe that mimics the health issues we face in the United States today."
The monkeys are fattened on a diet of dried chow pellets with one-third of the calories from fat plus adequate protein and nutrients. They can eat all the pellets they want plus a chunk of peanut butter and sometimes popcorn and peanuts. They also get a fruit-flavored punch containing the amount of fructose equivalent to one can of soda per day. It adds up to twice the calories consumed by a normal-weight monkey and 60% of them get fat on it.
One of the monkeys, named Shiva, gained 15 pounds in six months and weighs twice as much as normal for his age. Most of his excess weight is belly fat, an indication that he suffers from the same metabolic disorder that affects two-thirds of Americans.
According to Dr. Grove and researchers in other centers working with fat primates, it is the high-fructose corn syrup that appears to accelerate the development of obesity and diabetes. "It wasn't until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat," said Anthony B. Comuzzie, of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio.
Dr. Barbara C. Hansen of the University of South Florida has been doing research on obese monkeys for four decades. She prefers animals that naturally become fat with age, just as many humans do. One of her test subjects, Fat Albert, who was at one time the world's heaviest rhesus at 70 pounds, ate "nothing but an American Heart Association-recommended diet," she said. "To suggest that humans and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion," she said.
The scientists are seeking clues that may lead to the development of new drugs, since much of the research is funded by pharmaceutical companies. Most of them have little incentive to discover the best diet for primates, but the evidence indicates that the problem may not be the couch potato life-style after all. It may a matter of what we eat and drink while vegetating on the couch.
Footnote: Today's lab rats of obesity: Fat, furry monkeys, by Andrew Pollock of the New York Times; Controversial research aims to give insight into human obesity epidemic and diabetes. Read the article online here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41692358/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/?gt1=43001#
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
"Nonhuman primates don't lie to you," said neuroscientist, Dr. Kevin L. Grove, who directs the "obese resource" at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. "We are trying to induce the couch-potato style. We believe that mimics the health issues we face in the United States today."
The monkeys are fattened on a diet of dried chow pellets with one-third of the calories from fat plus adequate protein and nutrients. They can eat all the pellets they want plus a chunk of peanut butter and sometimes popcorn and peanuts. They also get a fruit-flavored punch containing the amount of fructose equivalent to one can of soda per day. It adds up to twice the calories consumed by a normal-weight monkey and 60% of them get fat on it.
One of the monkeys, named Shiva, gained 15 pounds in six months and weighs twice as much as normal for his age. Most of his excess weight is belly fat, an indication that he suffers from the same metabolic disorder that affects two-thirds of Americans.
According to Dr. Grove and researchers in other centers working with fat primates, it is the high-fructose corn syrup that appears to accelerate the development of obesity and diabetes. "It wasn't until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat," said Anthony B. Comuzzie, of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio.
Dr. Barbara C. Hansen of the University of South Florida has been doing research on obese monkeys for four decades. She prefers animals that naturally become fat with age, just as many humans do. One of her test subjects, Fat Albert, who was at one time the world's heaviest rhesus at 70 pounds, ate "nothing but an American Heart Association-recommended diet," she said. "To suggest that humans and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion," she said.
The scientists are seeking clues that may lead to the development of new drugs, since much of the research is funded by pharmaceutical companies. Most of them have little incentive to discover the best diet for primates, but the evidence indicates that the problem may not be the couch potato life-style after all. It may a matter of what we eat and drink while vegetating on the couch.
Footnote: Today's lab rats of obesity: Fat, furry monkeys, by Andrew Pollock of the New York Times; Controversial research aims to give insight into human obesity epidemic and diabetes. Read the article online here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41692358/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/?gt1=43001#
(C) 2011, Judy Barnes Baker: Carb Wars; Sugar is the New Fat
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