andrewducker

It might have been helpful if the article had mentioned Glycaemic Index or Glycaemic Load. I'm pretty sure they've been shown to surpass Atkins' theories (which sort of makes sense when you realise that the Atkins diet is a special case of a low GI diet).

To be fair, he's not specifically an Atkins fan, so I'm happy to say he's in the GI/GL camp.

I have been low carbing for 2 years. I've also been primarily gluten free for 29 years. I was dubious at first trying low carb but I'd spent years trying to lose weight following various diet clubs and just could never shift the weight. Low Carb made it drop off me(as you've no doubt spotted). I came off blood pressure medication as a result and all my stats improved drastically. My GP was amazed at the difference it made and explained that some diets just don't work for some people - my body seems to retain carbs. I can stick rigidly to 1200 calaories a day for a month and lose nothing! But give me 4000 calories of low carb and weight comes off. I'm not pretending it's as easy as the article implies though - energy levels are difficult and I know that I need to snack far more often when being strict as it's almost impossible to do a full workout. The only downside is if I endulge in carbs for a day or two I gain about 4-5 pounds so it's a pretty much lifestyle change for me to reduce carbs. It is a pretty easy diet though compared to calorie counting as I know straight away if I can or can't eat something, and I'm maintaining a count of 50-60g in my head rather than 1200. Eggs/meat are so negligible I don't really count them - I just allow for the odd chocolate bar, or cereal - I aim that every meal I eat contains less than 20g of carbs and that's worked so well for me. I do eat carbs at least once or twice a month - just to kick my metabolism and thus far apart from the sometimes struggling to finish a 40 minute run if I've not eaten beforehand I've never hit any problems. And I eat loads of eggs too as they're so low carb! I live on scrambled eggs and omelettes when I'm being lazy as they're something I always have the ingredients for in the fridge.

I'm not saying that low-carbing is a bad diet. I just think that this guy's article reads as evangelical as opposed to investigative.

If I eat a meal without carbs, I don't feel fed.

I think THE biggest lie of modern diet advertising is the notion that there is a single answer that suits everyone.

Some people thrive on low-carb/high-protein diets; others don't.

This.

I suspect there's a lot of complex internal homo sapiens evolutionary adaptions to diet that come into play.

I lose weight on Low Carb but I get depressed as hell doing it.

OTOH if I exercise regularly, weight drops off regardless of what type of food I eat.

+several, which is ever so much better than +1

Here's another myth: there are theories of nutrition so good that you should ignore how you're feeling.

God yes.

WHAT THE FUCK??????

'This is not the Hammer, The Hammer is my penis'????????

Best link you have EVER posted!!!

However I think she's missed an opportunity. Women who have experienced natural childbirth invariably screw up their pelvic floor which can lead to stress incontinence - we're encouraged to exercise these muscle regularly and I still do a squeeze and clench a couple of times a week as I don't want to ever be a sneezer who leaks. This device could so have been fun - in fact I'm almost tempted to buy one just so I can see how hard I'm squeezing - i'm guessing red is top strength!! if only it wasn't penis shaped, or was playing arcade games - how much fun would pelvic muscle squeezes be if I was playing a game!!! That's it - I'm going for dragon's Den!!!!

> if only it wasn't penis shaped

Don't the French health service give those out?

> or was playing arcade games

I have a sneaky feeling that already exists...

I'm almost frightened to google now!!!

Doesn't have to be natural childbirth - pregnancy is hazardous to your pelvic floor no matter how the baby emerges - and forceps often do worse damage than unassisted birth.

I’m not sure how we can negotiate a free trade agreement without some form of social chapter.

The same way that NAFTA was negotiated?

Well yes.

With us in the role of the US and the US in the role of Mexico.

I’ll need to look into this a bit more but on the face of it it seems problematic to me.

Given that back when NAFTA was negotiated some congressman (I forget who) was quoted as saying to another congressmen "Don't vote for NAFTA because it's good for the US, vote for NAFTA because it's bad for Mexicans" I'm not sure that's what I'd model a trade agreement after.

Up there, I think, with keeping the French in and the Germans down as the basis for the Common Market.

Well the US-Australia so-called Free Trade Agreement is bad for Aussies (who are paying much more in media licences, mainly). I'm not sure that we want the US in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Hammer link isn't working! Noooo!

Seems to have moved:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/the-hammer/

http://www.toymakerproject.com/hammer/ for all your hammer-related needs ;-)

That was even more nifty than I'd hoped it would be. Thanks!

Saying cyberspace doesn't exist ignores a set of interesting problems.

1. Whose jurisdiction applies? The server's country or the the consumer's country? Both?

2. What happens when you outsource outsource outsource sub-sub-sub-services. e.g. Most of my servers are in Country A, but some stuff comes from services in Country C and Country D, and it's going to Country E.

3. How hard do I need to work to block visitors from countries that I don't usually do business with? If Xanadu passes a law against sentences containing the word "the" and my site has some user content containing such sentences, am I liable? Can I be extradited?

None of those problems happen in cyberspace though. They're all covered by laws about publication of data and transmission of it from one jurisdiction to another. At no point are you covered by a jurisdiction called "cyberspace".

Sure. It's a problem domain or subject rather than a jurisdiction.

Oh yes. There are definitely interesting problems with the connectivity that an international inter-network routing systems provides.

But people who talk about it as if it's a place (and I bump into them semi-regularly) don't help :->

Absolutely the last thing we need is free trade with the US, look what's happening in Canada

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2012/12/us-corporations-launch-wave-of-nafta-attacks-on-canadas-energy-fracking-and-medicines-policies.html

I recommend Chris Kresser's paleo blog-- I'm not sure he's right about everything, but he's got more respect for science and for human variation than authoritynutrition.

For what it's worth, one of my friends has done some research and concluded that salt is not dangerous for most people, and the hazards of too little salt are greater than the hazards of too much. He's also found that he feels better if he supplements potassium up to the RDA, and so have some of his friends.

thanks for posting The Hammer - that put a smile on my face!

I hear that's what it's supposed to do!