http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/ en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:31:44 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.eatprotein.com/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/ http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8126&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:37:53 GMT For once, TPP of the NY Times has done something other than merely parrot the low-fat establishment's dogma. Her interview with Eric Westerman about the new Westerman, Phinney, and Volek Atkins book doesn't contain any of her usual bias or lack of critical thinking skills.

The comment trail also makes for interesting reading. Instead of the usual crowd, it is dominated by people telling their success stories on low-carb eating.

First Andrew Weil recants. Now Tara Parker-Pope seems to be wavering... ]]> Media Watch S Bear http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8126 http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8125&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:20:03 GMT Okay, this NY Times article on arthritis in the Moose population of Isle Royale isn't really focused on low-carb eating. But surprisingly, for the Times, it mentions the fact that arthritis and other degenerative diseases first appeared in some Native American populations when they were forced into farming by the Spanish; and also mentions that the adoption of maize farming by Midwestern tribes much earlier led to the same sorts of problems.

Overeating can be as problematic as undereating. Dr. Lisa A. Fortier, a large-animal orthopedist at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said she saw “abnormal joint and tendon development from excessive nutrition” in horses overfed “in utero or in the postnatal life,” probably ingesting “too much of the wrong type of sugar that may cause levels of inflammation.”

Dr. Peter Bales, an orthopedic surgeon affiliated with University of California, Davis, Medical Center, who has written about nutrition and arthritis, sees similar problems in overweight patients. He said the causes were not as “simplistic” as “carrying more weight around,” but might involve nutritional imbalances that could hurt joints and erode cartilage.

So, even the NY Times can say something intelligent about health every so often...as long as Tara Parker-Pope and Jane Brody aren't involved.*

In case you don't want to bother reading the article, the bottom line is that arthritis seems to be the result of nutritional deficiencies. The bad news: it is often caused by bad nutrition in childhood or even in the womb, and only shows up decades later.

And so much for giving nice horsie that sugar cube.

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*Oops. Tara Parker-Pope actually wrote something intelligent and unbiased. See my other post in this forum! ]]> Media Watch S Bear http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8125