This area is called Food for Thought and is where you’ll find a collection of my blog articles including Science Made Simple, A Dietitian’s Journey and Making Health a Habit.
“Science Made Simple” articles explain the science behind the use of a low carb or therapeutic ketogenic (keto) diet in terms that most people without a science background can understand. The more recent ones have references. These are blogs not academic publications and express my thoughts as well. There are also a few editorial articles (marked as such). The articles are arranged sequentially on this page, just below and can be searched for by title or topic in the search bar, below.
“A Dietitian’s Journey” is an account of my personal health recovery and weight loss journey over the two-year period, from March 5, 2017 – March 4, 2019 and can be found by clicking here. These are arranged sequentially as well as by topic (denial, results, progress, encouragement etc.).
All good journeys come to an end, however in order for me to maintain my own health requires making health a habit — hence the name for this series. “Making Health a Habit” picks up where “A Dietitian’s Journey” left off. Posts are available by clicking here.
If you’re looking for something by topic or by article name, the site is searchable and the search bar is on the bottom left of each page.
All Science Made Simple Articles, beginning with the most recent
- (UPDATED Feb 23) Sixth Case of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Vancouver called a Sentinel Event
- (Updated Feb 17) Health Officials Tracking Coronavirus Exposure in Metro Vancouver
- Beyond “Eat to Your Meter” For Better Blood Sugar Control
- Five Pounds or Fifty Pounds of Fat – in very real terms
- A Dietitian’s Journey – update of lab tests and metabolic markers
- Holiday Eating: a harsh reminder that I am not ‘cured’- a Dietitian’s Journey
- New ADA Standards of Medical Care Includes Low Carbohydrate Diet
- Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Lose Weight or Improve Your Health?
- When to Eat and Not Eat, How Many Meals and Intermittent Fasting
- Is it Possible to be a Vegetarian and Eat Low Carb or Keto?
- Which Protein Foods Are Best for Weight Loss on a Low Carb / Keto Diet?
- What Makes a Diet Low Carb or Keto is NOT How Much Fat it Contains
- Low Carb Foods That May Help Protect Against the Flu
- New Study in Older Light — lower CVD may be due to lower triglycerides
- Significance of New Study: Lower LDL Associated with Lower Risk of CVD
- Two Clinical Reactions: seeing the possibilities or being a pessimist
- New Study: Why Eating Less and Exercising More Matters As We Age
- Achieving the “Impossible”: from injecting insulin to achieving target HbA1C
- From Injecting Insulin to Normalized Blood Sugar – in 10 weeks
- Censorship of Real Food on Social Media as possibly offensive or disturbing
- US Assn. of Diabetes Educators Taught Person-Centered Low Carb Plans
- US Association of Diabetes Educators Teaches Evidence for Low Carb Diet
- Intermittent Fasting Doesn’t Need to be Complicated
- Keto Diet Doesn’t Cure Diabetes
- Trouble-shooting Chronic Constipation on a Low Carb Diet
- What is IBS and Why Do Symptoms Improve on a Low Carb Diet?
- WHO Draft Guidelines on Saturated Fat Excludes Key Facts and Studies
- Focus on Limiting Ultra Processed Food Not Saturated Fat & Sodium
- Canada Food Guide Snapshot: Limit Real Whole Food or Ultra-Processed?
- Only Half of People Have Newer Gene that Controls High Blood Sugar
- Lowering LDL and Saturated Fat to Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
- From Injecting Insulin to a Low Carb Diet – the first two weeks
- High Cholesterol and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
- How to Distinguish Food from Food-like Products
- Half a Million Visitors!
- The Three Concepts that Canada’s Food Guide Got (Mostly) Right
- The Problem with Counting Net Carbs
- How Reliable is Glycemic Index for Predicting Blood Sugar Response?
- How Carb-Containing Food Affects Blood Sugar Compared to Table Sugar
- Cancer Cases Related to Excess Weight Will Triple Over Next 20 Years
- ADA’s New Consensus Report – one page printout
- ADA: Brain’s need for glucose can be fulfilled by the body
- ADA Eating Patterns Different from Dietary Guidelines
- ADA: Very Low Carb (Keto) Eating Pattern in New Report
- ADA: reducing carbs has most evidence for improving blood sugar
- One slice of bacon per day does NOT increase your colon cancer risk
- CFG: what’s unlikely to change as new evidence emerges
- But Low Carb Diets Eliminate an Entire Food Group!
- Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Won’t Help You Live Longer
- Complex Carbohydrates as Long Chains of Sugar Molecules
- New Study: Dietary Saturated Fat is Not Associated with Increased Risk of CVD
- What To Do if You Think that Green Tea Tastes Terrible
- The Biological Connection Between Sugar and Cancer
- American Diabetes Association: Very Low Carb Diet is the most powerful for treating T2D
- Now Licensed for Virtual Dietetic Practice Across Canada
- American Heart Association: Some Kids & Teens at Risk for Premature CVD
- Are You Pushing Your Pancreas Too Hard?
- Healthy Men on Low Carb – building muscle while burning fat
- Interview with a Physician Specializing in Obesity Medicine
- McGill Professor’s Editorial: Known Benefits of Low-Carb “Keto” Diets
- Quebec newspaper: “Keto diets work, but is there a catch?”
- Reflections on Being a Nutritional Centrist
- Quebec newspaper:”no coincidence” dried beans so prominent in new Canada Food Guide
- Carbohydrates are Not Evil
- New Canada Food Guide – carbohydrate estimate of the sample plate
- The New Canada Food Guide – high carbohydrate & limited saturated fat
- EAT-Lancet Diet – inadequate protein for older adults
- The New EAT Lancet Diet – a healthy & sustainable diet for whom?
- Getting to Know Me – a short video introduction
- There’s Something About Real Life Personal Stories
- A Goal Without a Plan is a New Year’s Resolution
- How Many People Will Achieve Their New Year’s Resolution?
- Avoid Making These New Year’s Resolutions
- Episode 7 Low Carb MD Podcast – interview with Joy Kiddie, LCHF-Dietitian
- American Diabetes Association Low Carb Recommendations – one page printout
- Low Carb Diet in 2019 American Diabetes Association Standards of Care
- Long-Term Benefits of a Ketogenic Diet – 2 year update
- The Difference Between Reversal and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes
- Insulin Resistance, Hyperinsulinemia and Hyperglycemia
- There Are Officially Two Stages BEFORE a Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
- Carbohydrate Intolerance & the Chronic Disease Risk of High Insulin Levels
- When Normal Fasting Blood Glucose Results Aren’t Necessarily “Fine”
- Will This Knock Me Out of Ketosis?
- Cannabis’ Effect on Appetite, Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels
- ADA Deems Low Carb Diet Medical Nutrition Therapy for T2D
- ADA & European Association Classify Low Carb Diets as Medical Nutrition Therapy
- American Diabetes Association & European Association Approve Low Carb Diets
- Silver Bullet for Addressing Carb Cravings
- A Trial of the Evidence
- Are Low Carbohydrate Diets Linked to Risk of Premature Death?
- A New Estimator of Whole Body Fat Percentage
- Is Coconut Oil “Pure Poison”?
- Do Low Carb Diets Shorten Lifespan?
- Low Carbohydrate Eating for People with Diabetes – new position statement
- The Tip of the Iceberg – the much bigger problem of high insulin levels
- Alzheimer’s Disease as Glucose Dysfunction in the Brain
- When Fat Became the Villain
- Important Warning Signs of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
- Stanford Study Documents Abnormal Glucose Spikes in ‘Healthy’ People
- American Diabetes Association (ADA) Makes Sense of Carbs
- Consumption of Dairy Fat Doesn’t Increase the Risk of CVD — may protect
- Evidence that Refined Carbs with Vegetable Oils Cause Weight Gain
- Some Carbs Are Better Than Others – Part 4 – the Insulin Index
- The Perils of Food Processing – Part 2
- Why Carbs and Fat Together are Irresistible
- Ten Common Low Carb Myths
- The Perils of Food Processing – Part 1
- Evolving Theory of Obesity – a combination of refined carbs and industrial seed oils
- How Much Does Your Type 2 Diabetes Cost per Year?
- CVD Risk Improves By Use of Ketogenic Diet in Type 2 Diabetes at 1 year
- Two More Good Indicators of Cardiovascular Risk
- Importance of Waist Circumference & Waist to Height Ratio
- Don’t Try This at Home – the need for medication supervision
- Keto 153 – Interview with Joy Kiddie, the LCHF-Dietitian from Ketovangelist
- A Therapeutic Low Carb Diet
- Some Carbs are Better than Others (for Diabetics) – Part 3
- Some Carbs Are Better Than Others – Part 2 – Glycemic Load
- Some Carbs Are Better Than Others – Part 1 – Glycemic Index
- What is a Mediterranean Style Diet?
- Diabetes Canada 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines – option of a low carb diet
- Concerns with Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils – Part 2
- Concerns with Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils – Part 1
- New Study – More Animal Fat Consumption less cardiovascular disease
- Saturated Fat and Heart Disease – Bad Fat Enduring Beliefs Part 2
- Low Carb Diets are not one size fits all
- Time Frame of an Epidemic
- Vilification of Saturated Fat – Bad Fat Enduring Beliefs Part 1
- The Marketing of Vegetable Fats to an Unsuspecting Public
- Low Carb or Keto – what can you eat?
- Sugar Industry Paid Researchers that Blamed Saturated Fat as Cause of Heart Disease
- PART 2 of 2: The Evolving Hypothesis of Obesity – how polyunsaturated fat makes us fat
- PART 1 of 2: The Evolving Hypothesis of Obesity – the role of polyunsaturated fats
- The Role of Protein in the Diet – importance in adults and older adults
- Unreliability of Many Blood Glucose Monitors – cause for concern
- New Low Fat versus Low Carb Diet Study – when a tie is not a win
- Curious About Keto?
- New Study: Reversal in T2D Symptoms can be Sustained Long Term
- PART 2: The Role of Protein in the Diet – Evolutionary Exposure to Macronutrients
- Evidence that Low Carb Diets are Safe and Effective
- Misconceptions About the Keto Diet
- Understand High Blood Sugar & High Cholesterol
- The Role of Protein in the Diet – the history of man’s diet
- PART 1: The Role of Protein in the Diet
- Which Low Carb Diet?
- Your 2018 Health and Weight Loss Goals
- How Much and Which Types of Fat?
- Working on Health Goals?
- Top New Years Resolutions
- What is Ideal Protein®?
- How Much Carbohydrate is Essential in the Diet?
- Low Fat Calorie Restricted Diet versus Low Carbohydrate Diet – a two year study
- Part II- Understanding Low Carb High Fat – the solution
- Part I – Understanding Low Carb High Fat – the problem
- Four Diets over Two Years – long term findings
- Are Low Carbohydrate Diets Safe and Effective
- Evidence for Remission of Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms using LCHF
- What Regulates Body Weight?
- American Diabetes Association Approves Low Carb Diets for Weight Loss
- Is Low Carb eating really not sustainable?
- Food as Medicine to Lower Blood Glucose – scientific support
- Cheat Days and Eating LCHF
- Why I am the Low Carb High Fat Dietitian
- Fact and Fallacy of a Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) Diet
- Surprising ways to get adequate fiber eating LCHF
- Caffeine Substantially Increases Plasma Ketones in Healthy Adults
- Increasing the Time Between Meals: Intermittent Fasting
- What is the Anti-Inflammatory Protocol and what is it used for?
- Part 2: How is Insulin Resistance Measured?
- Part 1: What is Insulin Resistance?
- Insulin and Leptin – very different effects in lean versus overweight people
- Keto Water – replacing electrolytes
- Tracking Carbs Instead of Counting Calories
- One in Two People Will Get Cancer – new report finds
- New Obesity Study Sheds Light on Dietary Recommendations
- Obesity Pandemic – new study
- Oh Nuts!
- 1977 Dietary Recommendations — forty years on
- What is a Low Carb High Fat Ketogenic Diet?
- Humans – the perfect hybrid machine
- The Limitations of Common Ways of Determining Weight Loss
- From Paleo to Present – a brief history of the human diet
- Two People, Two Options: living healthy or dying prematurely
- Significance of Insulin Resistance
- A LCHF Diet
- The “Skinny” on Fats
- Carbs or Fat – which one should we eat less of?
- Weight Gain as a Hormone Imbalance not a Calorie Imbalance
- Obesity Rates in Canada and Changes to Canada’s Food Guide
- Canada’s Food Guide – an Epidemiological Experiment Gone Terribly Wrong?
- Why do we Gain Weight – the Myth of “Calories in, Calories out”
- Role of Green Tea Powder (Matcha) in Weight and Abdominal Fat Loss