Category Archives: News

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  Study shows low-carb diet may reduce cancer risk and tumor growth

  Posted on June 14, 2011 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Health, Low-Carb, News

  A recent study, conducted by British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, showed that a low-carbohydrate diet may slow the growth of tumors and reduce the risk of cancer. Lead researcher Gerald Krystal, Ph.D., and his team, implanted mice with various strains of human tumor cells or with mouse tumor cells. The mice were then given one [...]

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  Where I’ve been & stuff

  Posted on May 4, 2011 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Low-Carb, News, Personal & Life

  Hey Gang! Thought I’d give you a quick update. I was on vacation all of last week. We took a trip to Las Vegas so my hubby could attend a work expo. Not the best family vacation we’ve ever taken, but it was okay.  We saw some interesting sights… including this guy, who calls himself [...]

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  West Side Chicago parents lose control of menu choices

  Posted on April 12, 2011 by Amy_Dungan in blog, Controversy & Scams, Health, Junk Science, News

  This recent article in the Chicago Tribune not only caught my eye, but made my blood boil. According to officials at a public school on Chicago’s West Side, parents are too stupid to make healthy choices about their children’s lunches. While they didn’t exactly use the word “stupid”, they might as well have. Officials at [...]

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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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