The Shrubbloggers

Contact
Eric


OWW!

Thanks for checking out our blog. Don't forget to browse the archives.

 

What kind of a stupid name is "The Shrubbloggers"?    |    Why is there a "2.0" next to the crappy logo?    |    You could well starve if you feed on our RSS.

Whole30x2: Day 20
February 4, 2014 — 12:54 am

When I wrote the other day about the hormone hypothesis for weight gain and loss, I referred a few times to the work of Gary Taubes, Science journalist and researcher. I’ve made no secret of the fact that Taubes, in no small part, led to me losing 140 pounds.

Taubes makes a convincing case that dietary science has gotten some fundamental things entirely backward during the past several decades. The Overcoming Bias blog sums it up well:

For several decades, it has been the conventional wisdom that dietary fat (and especially saturated fat) contributes to obesity, heart disease, and cancer. Judging from Taubes’ exhaustive research — indeed, I’d be surprised if any other book examined bias within a particular scientific field in such detail — the conventional wisdom was based on unreliable and slender evidence that, once established and institutionalized in government funding, set a pattern of confirmation bias by which further research was judged (or ignored).

If you want the full-fledged scientific and historical case, you should really read Good Calories, Bad Calories. Taubes later condensed the book’s most important points for a lay readership in Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. It’s all worth digging into.

You can also see the basic argument in handy video form:

Here are my food photos for day 20:

Monday, Feb. 3

I woke up at 9:25 a.m. (after heading to bed at 1:55 a.m.).

Breakfast: 10:40 a.m. | 8 oz. beef, 2 beets, frisee endive, 1/2 sweet onion, 4 cloves garlic, 2 Tbsp. coconut oil, herbs & spices

Breakfast: 10:40 a.m. | 8 oz. beef, 2 beets, frisee endive, 1/2 sweet onion, 4 cloves garlic, 2 Tbsp. coconut oil, herbs & spices

Lunch: 2:00 p.m. | 4 oz. prociutto, 2 oz. kale chips

Lunch: 2:00 p.m. | 4 oz. prociutto, 2 oz. kale chips

Dinner: 8:45 p.m. | 8 oz. ground beef, 1/6 bunch broccoli, 1 1/2 stalks celery, 1/2 yellow squash, 1/2 sweet onion, 4 cloves garlic, 2 Tbsp. coconut oil, herbs & spices

I ate half of the contents of the skillet below, saving the other half for breakfast.

Dinner: 8:45 p.m. | 8 oz. ground beef, 1/6 bunch broccoli, 1 1/2 stalks celery, 1/2 yellow squash, 1/2 sweet onion, 4 cloves garlic, 2 Tbsp. coconut oil, herbs & spices

— Eric D. DixonComments (0)

 « Previous Entry

Next Entry »  

Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://www.shrubbloggers.com/2014/02/04/whole30x2-day-20/trackback/

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

(required)

(required)



Eric D. Dixon


Places I Go: