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  1. Making Low-Carb Ice Cream tonight

    I got a wild hair and dug out our old ice-cream churn.

    I checked in my new Sous Vide recipe book and they did actually have some recipes there for french-style Ice Cream, the kind with egg yolks that you have to slow-cook before freezing.

    I made substitutions as needed to make the recipe low-carb.

    Chocolate Ice Cream
    Makes 8 servings

    2c Unsweetened Almond Milk
    1c Heavy cream
    6 large egg yolks
    1/2 + 1 tsp unsweetened ...
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  2. Just what are "Diseases of Civilization" and why should you care?

    That's a very good question, if I do say so myself.

    During the 20th century, scientists traveled to numerous primitive and otherwise geographically isolated societies to catalog the health of the people therein. One such scientist was a dentist by the name of Weston A. Price. He wrote a book about his travels called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and I highly recommend it to everyone who is at all interested in how we got to be so sick and decrepit here in the Western world. ...
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  3. Virulently malignant brain tumor in woman successfully treated with ketogenic diet.

    http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/7/1/33

    Results

    After two months treatment, the patient's body weight was reduced by about 20% and no discernable brain tumor tissue was detected using either FDG-PET or MRI imaging. Biomarker changes showed reduced levels of blood glucose and elevated levels of urinary ketones. MRI evidence of tumor recurrence was found 10 weeks after suspension of strict diet therapy.
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  4. I was watching "The Biggest Loser" tonight, and something that one of them said...

    ...really struck me. A former contestant was visiting the current losers, and was helping to guide them through what life would be like once they were off the 'ranch' and back in the real world of jobs, family, and fast food temptations.

    The contestant was almost in tears at the thought of having to maintain her weightloss without being able to work out all day long like they do in the artificial environment of the ranch--either due to real life intruding or because one simply can't ...
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  5. Current favorite protein smoothie recipe

    1c Unsweetened Almond Milk
    1tbsp natural peanut butter
    2 scoops vanilla whey LC protein powder
    2 tsp unsweetened cocoa
    2 packets truvia sweetener
    5g leucine powder
    1/4tsp NoSalt Potassium salt substitute

    Blend and drink immediately. I pour the peanut oil off the top of the natural peanut butter because nobody needs that much added polyunsaturated oil. The peanuts themselves aren't too bad for you, as legumes go, but the oil isn't wonderful. ...
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