Saturday January 28, 2012
I think we can say that the Low-Carb Cruise is now an established annual tradition. This year is the fifth one, and will be sailing the Caribbean this May 6-13.
I went on last year's cruise (my first cruise ever), and I was hooked!
The way the cruise is set up is that the on the "port" days, we're free to do whatever we want, and there are lots of options at each port (this year's ports:
Cozumel, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman). Then on the "at-sea" days, we have truly fabulous speakers on subjects pertaining to low-carb eating. This year, there are three at-sea days instead of two, so we'll have even more wonderful information to absorb!
Read More...Wednesday January 25, 2012
It's Chinese New Year, and I love Chinese food! Unfortunately, a lot of it has a fair amount of sugar and/or starch. Did you know that the Hoisin sauce and plum sauce you can buy in the store can be up to 19 grams of carb (almost entirely sugar) for 2 tablespoons? Yikes! But we can celebrate Chinese New Year in a low-carb way. For example, try my recipe for
Moo Shu Chicken with
Sugar-Free Plum Sauce.
Photo © Hywit Dimyadi
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Sunday January 22, 2012
This week, Food Network star Paula Deen, known for her Southern home cooking,
announced on the
Today Show that she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago, and that she is beginning a new venture called "
Diabetes in a New Light" with pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk (makers of the diabetes medication Victoza). This has caused quite a furor, with chefs, food writers, bloggers, and health reporters railing away at Deen. Most of the commentators are blaming Deen for not only causing her own diabetes, but promoting foods that will do the same for her viewers. The Today Show's Dr. Nancy Snyderman
criticized Deen, saying, "her behavior is egregious...let's be real; you can't blame your genes for everything...we know that obesity is now the number one killer". (In the same segment, when asked whether New Jersey governor Chris Christie's weight would be likely to impair his chances in a future election, Snyderman said "we need a president with the fortitude to push himself away from the table".)
Read More...Thursday January 19, 2012
It's always fun to hear about how the image of low-carb eating is faring in countries other than the U.S., where I live. I've written before about Sweden, where what they call "LCHF" (low-carb high-fat) is now well-established -- as of last spring,
up to 25% of the population was at least partially attempting to follow this way of eating, and in a
recent podcast interview with Jimmy Moore, Swedish doctor and blogger Andreas Eenfeldt reported that he has the strong impression that interest continues to be on the rise, judging by the interest in
his Swedish blog (
English version). (Dr. Eenfeldt was a speaker on the
2011 Low Carb Cruise and at the
Ancestral Health Symposium).
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