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From Dr Eades:

Meat eating made us human. The anthropological evidence strongly supports the idea that the addition of increasingly larger amounts of meat in the diet of our predecessors was essential in the evolution of the large human brain.  Our large brains came at the metabolic expense of our guts, which shrank as our brains grew.

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Just two weeks on a high-fructose diet raises blood pressure in men. Read article here

I did on TV last night. What they did not tell you was:

Though the diets were twists on
commercial plans, the study did not directly compare popular diets. The
four diets contained healthy fats, were high in whole grains, fruits
and vegetables and were low in cholesterol.

It can’t be low carb if it is high in whole grains.  I have not been able to get the actual study yet to know for sure.

Update: Check out Jimmy Moore’s take.

By Alton Morris

The shifting calories theory has been around for a while. It is now gaining in popularity in the diet community. The theory is basically that you vary the number of calories you eat each day. The reason you want to do this is to keep your metabolism from going into starvation mode. When your body goes into this mode it burns fewer calories and actually tries to preserve fat.

In starvation mode you will lose very little weight and will plateau. Another side effect is you will more likely lose muscle. Do these problems sound familiar? These are the common problems people run into on low calorie diets.

The shifting calorie theory combats this by varying your calorie counts daily. Some days you eat very low on other you high calorie counts. Some believe this mimics the calorie intake of our nomadic ancestors and thus is the ways our bodies are designed operate. They key is that the overall calorie intake for the week is below the number of calories you burn that week. Another key is that by occasionally inserting high calorie day, this prevents your body from perceiving there is a deficient food supply.

Calorie shifting also keeps you from feeling deprived. Yes you will have to for go that treat today, but later in the week you will be able if you choose. This constant change to your eating doesn’t leave you unsatisfied and full of cravings. Some days you will actually feel like you are cheating.

The shifting calories theory has your metabolism is a constant state of confusion and will make you less likely to plateau. It also helps you keep your motivation because you always have an high calorie day coming up.

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Here is a study from July 2008. Bascically said the stronger you are the less likely you are to die from heart disease and cancer:

Muscular strength was independently associated with risk of death from
all causes and cancer in men. These findings are valid for men of
normal weight, those who are overweight, and younger or older men, and
are valid even after adjusting for several potential confounders,
including cardiorespiratory fitness. Muscular strength seems to add to
the protective effect of cardiorespiratory fitness against the risk of
death in men. Whether the association between muscular strength and
risk of death from cardiovascular disease is independent of typical
confounders as well as of cardiorespiratory fitness warrants further
investigation.

Not a definitive study but it sure supports what I have seen in real life.

As I have been going low carb, I have always feared my morning sausage and bacon was hurting me. Seems me and many others in the low carb realm have been misinformed.

Which of these sources will give you the most ingested nitrites:

 467 Hotdogs or 1 serving of arugula?

Find out in this article:

Does banning hotdogs and bacon make sense?

There has been no direct study of Vitamin D and Fat Loss. But there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that point to the fact that it just. Here are a couple of the most compelling to me:

Blood serum Vitamin D has been shown to be lower in the obese in this 1988 Study. This 2002 observational study showed with every 300 mg increase in regular calcium intake there is about 1 kg less body fat in children. What do you need to increase calcium absorption? That’s right, vitamin D. In this 2008 study the set out to test the hypothesis that high vitamin D lead to weight gain. What they found was: There is an inverse association between BMI and the serum levels of
25-OH-vit D and 1,25-vit D. This makes it highly unlikely that high
levels of circulating 1,25-vit D contribute to the development of
obesity.

There is no direct study and I can not say Vitamin D aides fat loss. It seems pretty likely to me. But I can say low vitamin D is associated with obesity.

It is worth the time to read.
Here is a clip:

I’m a blogger with over two thousand posts under his belt going back
five years this month, to November of 2003. And, until May of 2007,
about 18 months ago, I was a big fat blogger
— one usually filled with rage over politics and all sorts of other
societal elements far removed from my direct control. The blog was
supposed to be an outlet; but instead, I was a basket case of stress,
with blood pressure consistently measuring 145-160 / 95-105, probably
well on my way to some cardiac event or stroke within a decade. To make
matters worse, I took prescription medication daily, both for gastric
reflux (pretty predictable) and for sinus allergies I’d suffered from
since my teen years.

Here is the promised interview of Dr. Barry Sears by Jimmy Moore.

By Alton Morris

Exercise is the best way to lose fat. If you concentrate on diet without exercise you run a greater risk of losing muscle and shutting down your metabolism. The more fat you have to lose the more this will be a problem. Dieting without exercise will make you more likely to plateau and increase the likelihood you will give up.

Exercise allows you to burn off excess calories. A good exercise plan will allow you to maintain your muscle mass while losing fat. This is important for many reasons. Muscle is tissue that burns calories. It allows you to do activities at an intensity that will allow you to burn more calories than you could do the same activity with less muscle.

Repeated dieting and not ensuring that you maintain your muscle can actually make you fatter and be less healthy. This is even if you weigh less than when you started dieting. What happens is you lose muscle and then the percentage of your weight that comes from fat is increased. This will mean you ability to do things will be decreased. If you repeat this process enough it will impact your health.

Dieting alone makes it harder to lose fat because it requires you eat less than what your body perceives as needed. When you eat too much less than your maintenance level your metabolism will shift into “Starvation mode”. This means your body will try and preserve as much fat as possible. In this mode you will not burn fat, because you cannot burn fat and store it at the same time.

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