The Carb-Sane Asylum

In my former home, we had a large "country kitchen" and baseboard heating.  For those not familiar with baseboard heating, hot water is passed through a pipe and at various locations these pipes go through elements like the one shown.  Eventually the water goes back to the furnace and round and round it goes.   There's always some loss of energy for the parts of the pipes that don't go through elements, so the shorter the loop the more efficient.  In most floor plans, this means a single loop around the outside walls of the house.  

Background Posts & Prior BabyGate Files: Mammalian Infant Food Macronutrients ~ Especially Human Common Themes: The Chef Evans & Prof. Noakes Controversies, and Robb Wolf vs. North Carolina * The Obesity Paradox The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Blames Gerber for Baby Cereals * The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Just WRONG on Protein * The BabyGate Files: Pete Evans' Bubba Yum Yum ~ There's a Macro Missing! The BabyGate Files: Sally Fallon & The Weston A. Price Foundation Should Not Be Let Off The Hook The BabyGate Files: Chris Kresser. Is There Any Moral Code? * May be most relevant to this post. THE INFAMOUS TWEET This is going to be a short but important "bookmarking" post, just so I get this "on paper" once things finally go down for Prof. Tim Noakes in November.  Two hat tips are in order:  1. Alex S. who found and linked up (comments on a prior post) the original tweet that got Noakes in hot water, and 2. Melanie M. for sendin...

Summary:    In the Perfect Health Diet books, the claim is made that omnivores prefer a high fat diet along the lines off the PHD macronutrient ratios.  Two studies on mice are cited as evidence in support of a 65% fat diet.  This post discusses those two studies, as well as how the results are more likely to caution against a high fat diet than advocate for it.   NOTE:  This is NOT a comprehensive look at the two studies discussed in the post.  In order to keep the post length managable I've only addressed the points relevant to claims made in the  PHD  books citing these studies.

Hi all!  It's been out for a couple of days now, but I thought I'd wait until Friday to blog and share.   I did a podcast interview with Danny Lennon of Sigma Nutrition .   Even if you don't want to listen to me (aww come on, admit it haterz you wanna listen!) this guy has had some great guests and a good variety of them at that, so go check out his interviews! I probably talked a bit more about my personal experiences than I've done in a while, and I was also probably a bit more shrill about some issues.  We recorded this just around a week ago and of late it seems that just about everything I look into coming out of the IHC is either a misrepresentation or a flat out lie.  If it weren't for the rampant eating disorders plaguing the community -- under the guise of health and healing mind you -- I probably wouldn't care nearly as much.    I am also very frustrated by these absolutists laying down laws in their books and such and the...

Recently I shared some "blinded" study results from a real study conducted on two strains of mice, each studied after eating one of two diets.  More correctly these mice are of the same strain, but one set has a mutation in the brown fat cells.  I did this along with some simple -- obvious -- questions, and then a more open ended question regarding interpretation.  I intended for one more installment, but I think it just got tedious, so I'll incorporate that into this reveal post.   So from the first post, here is the data I provided:

It's hard to believe that Tim Noakes actually gave the presentation in the embedded YouTube video over two years ago.   It's even more difficult to believe that anyone has taken him seriously since.   For the topic of this post, one needs only devote ~ 6 minutes to listening to Noakes read to you about human evolution and how Ancel Keys destroyed the world.  This begins at roughly 3 min 36 seconds.   If you can't tolerate the video, or simply wish to follow along with a written form, the South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition has dramatically lowered their standards and published Noakes' heavily fortified "transcript" (at least 25 references date to after the 2012 delivery of this speech) without any peer review .  His references, regardless of date, are enlightening, so I'm glad they were provided, however the journal should put a heavy disclaimer directly in/on the paper in question (and fix the oversight that allowed the peer reviewed ...

So when we left off with Quiz 1 , we had two strains of mice weaned onto one of two diets.   As promised, my first question regarding which mice gained the most weight was not a trick question.  If you don't agree that "D" is the "winner" here, please consider having your eyesight checked ;-) So now, I'm still not going to unblind my study here, as where would be the fun in that?  But two strains, two diets.   Since D stands out, let's use these mice as our "reference".   Thus, given: D & B are either the same mouse strain on different diets, or different mouse strains on the same diet ... and D & C are either the same mouse strain on different diets, or different mouse strains on the same diet. Let's ignore A and any comparisons we can make here.  What conclusions would you draw in terms of weight gain if: D & B are different strains of mice on the same diet, thus D & C are the same mouse strain...

Background Posts & Prior BabyGate Files: Mammalian Infant Food Macronutrients ~ Especially Human Common Themes: The Chef Evans & Prof. Noakes Controversies, and Robb Wolf vs. North Carolina The Obesity Paradox The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Blames Gerber for Baby Cereals   The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Just WRONG on Protein The BabyGate Files: Pete Evans' Bubba Yum Yum ~ There's a Macro Missing! The BabyGate Files: Sally Fallon & The Weston A. Price Foundation Should Not Be Let Off The Hook   (I think this one is probably worth reading for background to the current post) My last post discussed one of the recipes for homemade baby formula on the Weston A. Price Foundation website.    Here is that formula:

UPDATE 6/5:  Hearing has been postponed, and expanded to 7 days beginning November 23.  Some info on why here . Recent news piece In the tweet, Noakes advised a mother to have her baby follow a diet high in fats and low in carbohydrates. This week he said: “She was asking for advice on what to feed her child and I advised her to wean the child on to low carbohydrate, high protein , nutrient-dense food. By that I was implying that she shouldn’t wean the child on to cereals. ” BUMP: 6/4 Noakes' hearing is tomorrow and Friday, June 4th and 5th.  Since this was originally published on a holiday weekend here in the States, I'm bumping this post.   His personal cheerleader has written another article on the topic too:   Tim Noakes: will the Nutrition Inquisition finally silence him? As a sports scientist for decades, Noakes’ specialty has always been a specialist in dietetics and nutrition. He has also been studying infant nutrition for the past four y...

PREEMPTIVE UPDATE:  A few days before finishing up this post, I noticed that the Bubba Yum Yum book has finally been self published in iBooks.  It will be interesting to see what the final published formula is though and if they added any carbohydrate (somehow I doubt it from the preview pages available of other recipes). Background Posts & Prior BabyGate Files: Mammalian Infant Food Macronutrients ~ Especially Human Common Themes: The Chef Evans & Prof. Noakes Controversies, and Robb Wolf vs. North Carolina The Obesity Paradox The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Blames Gerber for Baby Cereals (this post contains historical breast milk alternatives and weaning practics) The BabyGate Files: Tim Noakes Just WRONG on Protein (discusses "early protein hypothesis" link to increased adiposity later in childhood.) The BabyGate Files: Pete Evans' Bubba Yum Yum ~ There's a Macro Missing!   (key to this post, they claim adaptation from WAPF recipe) ...