Assorted Links
- trouble at the American Meteorological Society
- the power of mood-sharing by Alexandra Carmichael
- crash diet reverses Type 2 diabetes in a week
- archeology of fermentation
- American capitalism with Chinese characteristics: James Stewart’s first column for the New York Times. Stewart is one of my favorite writers.
Thanks to Anne Weiss.
June 25th, 2011 at 5:37 am
For comments on that “crash diet” see Jenny Ruhl’s latest blog posting:
‘Idiotically Dangerous Diet “Reverses Diabetes” but So Does Moderate Carb Restriction Without Calorie Restriction’
http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/idiotically-dangerous-diet-reverses.html
June 29th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Ruhl doesn’t really support her assertion that the diet is dangerous.
It seems very unlikely to me that it is. I have to believe that we evolved to be extremely well equipped to go a single week on sparse food. It seems very believable that it would have a salutary effect after five or six decades of uninterrupted gorging.
The “KimKins” diet that she throws up is a red herring. Kimkins was the fat, fraudulent, scientifically-illiterate housewife whose low carb, low fat, high protein “Kimkins” diet really was dangerous as it results in “rabbit starvation”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation