This area is called Food for Thought and is where you’ll find a collection of articles that I have written related to following low carb or ketogenic diets.
As of the end of December 2020, there were 268 Science Made Simple articles in total — excluding my personal weight-loss and health-recovery story (March 5, 2017 – March 4, 2019), titled “A Dietitian’s Journey“.
A subset of some of those articles appear here, with the remainder below in archives. If you are a physician or healthcare provider, you can find articles of particular interest to you here.
Selected Articles
Insulin Resistance / Hyperinsulinemia Articles
- The Tip of the Iceberg – the much bigger problem of high insulin levels
- Part 1: What is Insulin Resistance?
- Part 2: How is Insulin Resistance Measured?
- Are You Pushing Your Pancreas Too Hard?
- 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
- When Normal Fasting Blood Glucose Results Aren’t Necessarily “Fine”
Medication and Low Carb and Keto Diets Articles
Best Glucometers Articles
Are you Ready to Lose Weight?
- Why Most People Regain Weight Loss – understanding stages of change
Macro Articles
CARBS
PROTEIN
- How Much Protein Interferes with Ketosis or Stresses the Kidneys?
- The Role of Protein in the Diet – importance in adults and older adults
FAT
- A Keto Diet is NOT About How Much Fat it Contains
- High Cholesterol and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Part 1
- Lowering LDL and Saturated Fat to Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease – Part 2
- Is Coconut Oil “Pure Poison”?
GLUCOSE OR CARBS
Different Type of “Keto” Diets Articles
- The Stereotypical High Fat Keto Diet is Only ONE Type
- Another Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet and How it Differs from “the Keto Diet”-new!
Body Measurement Articles
- The Limitations of Common Ways of Determining Weight Loss
- A New Estimator of Whole Body Fat Percentage
Addressing Constipation on a Low Carb or Keto Diet
Real Whole Food versus Smoothies
Article Archives
2021 (4)
- 11/01 - No One Sized Fits All Low Carb or Ketogenic Diet – presentation (conference presentation, science made simple)
- 08/30 - Another Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet and How it Differs from “the Keto Diet” (science made simple)
- 06/30 - American College of Cardiology: No Benefit to Lower Saturated Fat Intake (science made simple)
- 05/31 - New Protocols for In-Person Clinical Operation for Health Professionals (science made simple)
- 05/13 - Diabetes Canada Deems Low Carb and Very Low Carb Diet Safe and Effective (notice, science made simple)
- 04/29 - Too Much and Too Little is Killing Us- reducing comorbidities (personal account, science made simple)
- 04/22 - My Three Year Health Recovery Anniversary – a Dietitian’s Journey (Dietitians Journey, science made simple)
- 04/16 - Obesity Most Significant Risk Factor to Covid-19 Hospitalization after Age (science made simple)
- 04/13 - Obesity Poses Significant Risk to People less than 60 years with Covid-19 (science made simple)
- 02/21 - (UPDATED Feb 23) Sixth Case of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Vancouver called a Sentinel Event (notice, science made simple)
- 02/06 - (Updated Feb 17) Health Officials Tracking Coronavirus Exposure in Metro Vancouver (notice, science made simple)
- 01/27 - Five Pounds or Fifty Pounds of Fat – in very real terms (Dietitians Journey, personal account, science made simple)
- 01/21 - A Dietitian’s Journey – update of lab tests and metabolic markers (Dietitians Journey, personal account, science made simple)
- 12/27 - Holiday Eating: a harsh reminder that I am not ‘cured’- a Dietitian’s Journey (Dietitians Journey, science made simple)
- 11/03 - Which Protein Foods Are Best for Weight Loss on a Low Carb / Keto Diet? (science made simple)
- 09/22 - New Study in Older Light — lower CVD may be due to lower triglycerides (science made simple)
- 09/19 - Embracing Health and Self-Acceptance – a Dietitian’s Journey (Dietitians Journey, making health a habit)
- 09/17 - Significance of New Study: Lower LDL Associated with Lower Risk of CVD (science made simple)
- 09/13 - Two Clinical Reactions: seeing the possibilities or being a pessimist (personal account, science made simple)
- 08/30 - Achieving the “Impossible”: from injecting insulin to achieving target HbA1C (personal account, science made simple)
- 08/22 - From Injecting Insulin to Normalized Blood Sugar – in 10 weeks (personal account, science made simple)
- 08/20 - Censorship of Real Food on Social Media as possibly offensive or disturbing (editorial, science made simple)
- 08/12 - US Association of Diabetes Educators Teaches Evidence for Low Carb Diet (science made simple)
- 07/02 - Focus on Limiting Ultra Processed Food Not Saturated Fat & Sodium (editorial, science made simple)
- 06/28 - Canada Food Guide Snapshot: Limit Real Whole Food or Ultra-Processed? (editorial, science made simple)
- 06/23 - Lowering LDL and Saturated Fat to Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (science made simple)
- 06/21 - From Injecting Insulin to a Low Carb Diet – the first two weeks (personal account, science made simple)
- 06/16 - A New Little Black Dress – a Dietitian’s Journey continues (Dietitians Journey, making health a habit, personal account)
- 06/02 - The Three Concepts that Canada’s Food Guide Got (Mostly) Right (editorial, science made simple)
- 05/06 - Visible and Audible Difference – making health a habit (comparison videos) (making health a habit)
- 05/03 - Low Carb and Keto Diets – the good, the bad and the ugly (short video) (making health a habit)
- 04/07 - New Study: Dietary Saturated Fat is Not Associated with Increased Risk of CVD (science made simple)
- 04/03 - What To Do if You Think that Green Tea Tastes Terrible (personal account, science made simple)
- 03/18 - American Diabetes Association: Very Low Carb Diet is the most powerful for treating T2D (science made simple)
- 03/04 - Two Year Anniversary of Adopting a Low Carb Lifestyle- a short video update (Dietitians Journey, personal account)
- 03/01 - American Heart Association: Some Kids & Teens at Risk for Premature CVD (science made simple)
- 02/20 - Healthy Men on Low Carb – building muscle while burning fat (personal account, science made simple)
- 02/15 - McGill Professor’s Editorial: Known Benefits of Low-Carb “Keto” Diets (editorial, science made simple)
- 01/29 - Quebec newspaper:”no coincidence” dried beans so prominent in new Canada Food Guide (editorial, science made simple)
- 01/25 - New Canada Food Guide – carbohydrate estimate of the sample plate (editorial, science made simple)
- 01/14 - Getting to Know Me – a short video introduction (Dietitians Journey, podcast, science made simple)
- 01/04 - Beyond Appearance to Health – 22 months of A Dietitian’s Journey in video clips (Dietitians Journey)
- 12/21 - Episode 7 Low Carb MD Podcast – interview with Joy Kiddie, LCHF-Dietitian (podcast, science made simple)
- 12/19 - American Diabetes Association Low Carb Recommendations – one page printout (science made simple)
- 11/29 - Carbohydrate Intolerance & the Chronic Disease Risk of High Insulin Levels (science made simple)
- 10/10 - ADA & European Association Classify Low Carb Diets as Medical Nutrition Therapy (science made simple)
- 10/07 - American Diabetes Association & European Association Approve Low Carb Diets (science made simple)
- 08/22 - Low Carbohydrate Eating for People with Diabetes – new position statement (science made simple)
- 08/16 - The Tip of the Iceberg – the much bigger problem of high insulin levels (science made simple)
- 07/13 - Consumption of Dairy Fat Doesn’t Increase the Risk of CVD — may protect (science made simple)
- 07/12 - Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome IS reversible – a Dietitian’s Journey (Dietitians Journey)
- 06/04 - Evolving Theory of Obesity – a combination of refined carbs and industrial seed oils (editorial, science made simple)
- 05/29 - CVD Risk Improves By Use of Ketogenic Diet in Type 2 Diabetes at 1 year (science made simple)
- 05/04 - Keto 153 – Interview with Joy Kiddie, the LCHF-Dietitian from Ketovangelist (podcast, science made simple)
- 04/11 - Diabetes Canada 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines – option of a low carb diet (editorial, science made simple)
- 03/21 - Vilification of Saturated Fat – Bad Fat Enduring Beliefs Part 1 (editorial, science made simple)
- 03/12 - Sugar Industry Paid Researchers that Blamed Saturated Fat as Cause of Heart Disease (editorial, science made simple)
- 03/07 - PART 2 of 2: The Evolving Hypothesis of Obesity – how polyunsaturated fat makes us fat (science made simple)
- 03/07 - PART 1 of 2: The Evolving Hypothesis of Obesity – the role of polyunsaturated fats (science made simple)
- 03/01 - The Role of Protein in the Diet – importance in adults and older adults (science made simple)
- 02/02 - A Dietitian’s Journey – discontinuation of medications since beginning to eat low carb (Dietitians Journey)
- 01/31 - PART 2: The Role of Protein in the Diet – Evolutionary Exposure to Macronutrients (science made simple)
- 01/15 - A Dietitian’s Journey Progress Report – is the glass half empty or half full? (Dietitians Journey)
- 12/04 - Low Fat Calorie Restricted Diet versus Low Carbohydrate Diet – a two year study (science made simple)
- 09/08 - Food as Medicine; dramatically lower blood sugar – a Dietitian’s Journey (Dietitians Journey)
- 07/07 - Insulin and Leptin – very different effects in lean versus overweight people (science made simple)
- 03/26 - Two People, Two Options: living healthy or dying prematurely (editorial, science made simple)
- 05/25 - Canada’s Food Guide – an Epidemiological Experiment Gone Terribly Wrong? (editorial, science made simple)
