It just occurred to me that I haven’t written anything on my diet recently here. That’s because I’ve not been as great about following it, but I have been keeping carbohydrate intake relatively low, and as a result my weight has pretty much held steady for the last year, which is a victory itself.

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Cecil Adams takes a look at the notion that eating bacon is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. Even using conventional ideas about nutrition, it’s not even close.

Kara Curtis talks to NPR about the shame of being fat. I bring this up because Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam recommended “public shaming” again as a way to treat the nation’s obesity epidemic.

“Hey, fatty! Pull that doughnut out of your pie hole! You look like a pig, and you [...]

Much of Europe was decimated in 1944 and Allied troops still in the European theater were expected to face starvation conditions. Ancel Keys, the father of the low-fat diet, wondered what the physical and psychological effect of extended starvation might be.

So he got ahold of thirty-two volunteers and subjected them to a 1,570 [...]

James McWilliams says free-range meat is little improvement over factory-farmed meat, insisting that people should eat neither. His reasons that although meat animals raised in a free-range environment live happier, longer lives, this actually means their killing is less humane, not more:

Paleo blogger Melissa McEwen takes a look at Healthy at Any Size, which I take it is one of the central tomes of the fat acceptance movement. Her conclusions: intellectually and morally speaking, Linda Bacon is right; the dietary advice leaves something to be desired.

She basically says enjoy your food, [...]

This morning is “pick on Yglesias morning.” Again addressing the issue of obesity, Matt points to the chart below which shows that, yes, Americans are fatter than many other developed nations. But there are a lot of developed nations where obesity is increasing at similar rates.

Yglesias observes: “It’s clear that some local [...]

Matt Yglesias notes that while, yes, some “fast food meals” contain massive numbers of calories, it is possible to eat a healthy, 2,000 calorie diet from McDonald’s.

Consider the person, for example, who has an Egg McMuffin for Breakfast, a Big Mac and small fries for lunch, and a Big N’ Tasty With [...]

Low carb evangelist and author Dana Carpender asks how her readers tell people they are low carb, so here’s my take.

A lot of people around me know I’m eating a low-carb diet. My co-workers read my blog occasionally, and I’ve talked about it on Facebook as well. There’s also the small matter [...]

I hovered around 295 for much of August, now I’m hovering around 290. My weight loss slowed quite a bit over the last month and a half as I relaxed a bit on my diet because of birthdays and vacations and such. But as long as I’m losing weight I’m not terribly concerned about the [...]