I’ve finally gotten over the sensation that my house is rocking on invisible waves, so I guess it’s safe to write about the 5th Annual Low-Carb Cruise. (I was once on a cruise ship for five straight weeks as a comedian. When I finally went home, it was nearly two weeks before our townhouse didn’t ...
Read moreThe Older Brother Is A Senior Citizen
Greetings. It’s Tom, back from the cruise. I’ll post a full report later in the week, but for now I want to thank The Older Brother for taking over the Fat Head chair while I was gone. I also want us all to wish him a happy birthday. He turns 55 today, which means he ...
Read moreGetting Ready For The Cruise, Dr. Lustig’s Series On Obesity
I promise to start writing real posts again soon. Right now my focus is on getting ready for the cruise … finishing a slide show for the roast, rehearsing, making sure we have our travel arrangements all set, etc. These things were a lot easier when I wasn’t also working full-time outside the home. Chareva’s ...
Read moreBusy Writing
I’ll be spending the evening attempting to finish up my bits for the roast I’m doing on the low-carb cruise. Can’t believe it’s coming up so soon.
Read moreOdds and Ends
Odds and Ends from the news and reader emails: The tube diet Here’s a novel idea for losing weight rapidly: drip some protein and fat into your stomach through a tube in your nose. Apparently this is now popular among brides-to-be who want to walk down the aisle wearing a dress they’ll never fit into ...
Read moreA/V Weekend: The Dr. O Show, Lustig on Obesity, Saturated Fat Controversy
The Dr. O Show I was recently interviewed on the Dr. O show. No, not that Dr. O. This Dr. O actually knows what he’s talking about when it comes to diet and health. Some of you may recognize Dr. S. Andrei Ostric as a frequent contributor in the Fat Head Facebook group. He’s a ...
Read moreBook Review: Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease
I receive a fair number of emails and comments from people urging me to add a section to the blog that lists studies supporting a low-carb diet. Yes, that would be a worthy project, but it’s not one I’ll have time to tackle anytime soon. However, I’ve frequently referred people to David Evans’ Healthy Diets ...
Read moreThe Farm Report: Weekend Workouts
If we keep doing farm work on the weekends, I’ll probably end up in great shape. I mentioned in a previous post that Chareva hasn’t been working out at the gym, but hasn’t needed to because she’s been laboring around the farm all week. I usually head to the gym on Sunday, which wasn’t an ...
Read moreInterview on The Echo Boom Bomb
I didn’t know there was a generation called the Echo Boom, but apparently that’s the term for Americans born between 1982 and 1995 — and there are a LOT of them, thus the “boom” label. A blogger named Tim Smith writes about Echo Boomer issues on his Echo Boom Bomb blog, and he recently interviewed ...
Read moreGoogle Gone
I finally dumped our Google reserved spots after readers alerted me that ads for lap-band surgery were appearing in one of them. That’s the problem with Google’s ad-placement software: if I write about the horrors of bariatric surgery, we get ads for bariatric surgery showing up. If I write about the damage caused by high-fructose ...
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