Category Archives: News

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  Type 2 Diabetes and Carbohydrates

  Posted on March 8, 2011 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Health, Junk Science, Low-Carb, News

  Researchers make link between carbs and Type 2 diabetes –  I haven’t seen the abstract for this study, so I can’t give a whole lot of commentary on it. And to be fair, I want to remind you that correlation is not causation. That being said,  assuming it was done correctly,  this conclusion is not [...]

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  Low-Carb in the limelight

  Posted on January 20, 2011 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Low-Carb, News

  Just in case you haven’t heard about it yet, Reader’s Digest has recently taken positive notice of low-carb living. In the February 2011 edition of Reader’s Digest, the cover story is titled Eat This, Lose Weight The New Science of Dieting. Of course when I saw the accompanying photo, I squealed loud enough that everyone [...]

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  Egg Recall

  Posted on August 16, 2010 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Health, News

  According to an FDA press release, there is a nationwide recall of eggs from various brands using the same supplier. Information below: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 13, 2010 – The following statement was released by officials of Wright County Egg regarding the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) on-farm records review and egg testing [...]

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  2010 Dietary Guidelines

  Posted on June 23, 2010 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Health, Junk Science, Low-Carb, News

  On June 15th we were handed down the nutritional ruling from on high. Once again a committee of government appointed experts have congregated and discussed the latest science and findings regarding diet and nutrition. Then they threw all that out the window, had a good laugh at public gullibility and maybe had a beer together.  Or [...]

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  Ban Happy Meal Toys and Save the Children

  Posted on April 29, 2010 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Health, Low-Carb, News

  Riiiiiight. And then flying monkeys will sprinkle us all with sparkly dust that makes us magically thin, rich and happy!!! Yeah. So you can already see I’m less than enthused about this new move made by Santa Clara County officials to ban happy meal toys and other promotions they claim “lure” kids into eating junk [...]

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