<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566645539492241147</id><updated>2009-12-10T19:40:20.405-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Low Carb Notables</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chainey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8566645539492241147/posts/default?orderby=updated'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chainey.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chainey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209117357558394101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566645539492241147.post-1182349466629000657</id><published>2009-09-27T00:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T00:55:45.267-07:00</updated><title type='text'>People</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Allan, Christian&lt;/span&gt; - Co-Author of the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Bread-Christian-Allan/dp/0658001701"&gt;Life Without Bread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (along with Dr Wolfgang Lutz). &lt;!-- A T K I N S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_atkins"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Atkins_%28nutritionist%29"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Atkins, Dr Robert&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, - A trailblazer in the low carb field. Author of the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dr Atkins' Diet Revolution&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-0414219-2896743?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books&amp;amp;field-author=Robert%20C.%20Atkins"&gt;several other books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- B E A R --&gt;&lt;!-- Name BOLD --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bear, the&lt;/b&gt; - Pseudonym/nickname for &lt;a href="http://chainey.blogspot.com/2009/09/people.html#people_stanley"&gt;Owsley Stanley&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- B A N T I N G Name Link plus text only --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_banting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Banting, William&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Early populariser of low-carbohydrate diet. See link for details.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- B A S S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_bass"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.drbass.com/index.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bass, Dr Stanley&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Nutritional researcher and experimenter. See link for his site, which is garish in format but worth exploring for all the articles and links.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- B E R N S T E I N --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_bernstein"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Bernstein"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bernstein, Dr Richard&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Diabetes specialist and author of &lt;a href="http://www.diabetes-book.com/"&gt;Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't read his book, as I'm not diabetic, but I note that &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316099066/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top"&gt;at Amazon&lt;/a&gt; it has a remarkable 4.5 star rating (out of 5) from 81 reviewers, and the three negative reviews are nonsense.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a rel="co-worker" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonny+bowden&amp;amp;search_type="&gt;Videos&lt;/a&gt; | Audio | Articles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- B O W D E N --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_bowden"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.jonnybowden.com/blogger.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bowden, Jonny&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Popular nutritionist and author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books&amp;amp;field-author=Jonny%20Bowden"&gt;several books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a rel="co-worker" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonny+bowden&amp;amp;search_type="&gt;Videos&lt;/a&gt; | Audio | Articles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- B R I F F A --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_briffa"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Briffa, Dr John&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - British doctor and nutritionist and author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/203-8072974-5613551?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books-uk&amp;amp;field-author=John%20Briffa"&gt;several books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- C O R D A I N --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_cordain"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.thepaleodiet.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Cordain, Loren&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Researcher and academic. Author of &lt;a href="http://www.thepaleodiet.com/paleo_books/paleodiet.shtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Paleo Diet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Somewhat on the outer with many LC people as he retains the conventional view of saturated fat as dangerous, largely based on his observation that wild meat is relatively low in fat. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- E A D E S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_eades"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Eades, Dr Michael&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Prolific blogger. Author and co-author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-0414219-2896743?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books&amp;amp;field-author=Michael%20R.%20Eades"&gt;several low-carb books&lt;/a&gt;, including &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Protein Power&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- G R O V E S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_groves"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/aboutbg.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Groves, Barry&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - UK-based Mr Groves runs a very interesting and informative site called &lt;a href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/index.html"&gt;Second Opinions&lt;/a&gt;. Recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- G U Y E N E T --&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_Guyenet"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Guyenet, Stephan&lt;/span&gt; - Runs the very informative Hard-Science blog &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/"&gt;Whole Health Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- H Y P E R L I P I D --&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_Hyperlipid"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Hyperlipid&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Peter at Hyperlipid takes a rigorous scientific approach, occasionally leavened with some humour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- K E N D R I C K --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_kendrick"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kendrick, Dr Malcolm&lt;/b&gt; - Noted Cholestero-skeptic. Author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Cholesterol-Con-Malcolm-Kendrick/dp/1844543609"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Great Cholesterol Con&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and member of &lt;a href="http://www.thincs.org/index.htm" title="The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics"&gt;THINCS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a rel="met" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=malcolm+kendrick&amp;amp;search_type="&gt;Videos&lt;/a&gt; | Audio | &lt;a href="http://www.thincs.org/Malcolm.index.htm"&gt;Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- K E Y S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_keys"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Keys, Ancel&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Founder of the 'Diet-Heart' hypothesis, which so many low-carbers reject. For some commentary and two very interesting videos, one uncritically positive and one scathingly negative, see the post &lt;a href="http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/video-of-the-starvation-study/" rel="nofollow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; from Dr Mike Eades' always-intelligent blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- L U T Z --&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_lutz"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;Lutz, Dr Wolfgang&lt;/b&gt; - Original author of the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Bread-Christian-Allan/dp/0658001701"&gt;Life Without Bread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (co-author along with Christian Allan of a later English-language version).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Videos | Audio | &lt;a href="http://www.scdiet.org/7archives/lutz/lutz7.html"&gt;Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- M A S T E R J O H N --&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_masterjohn"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Masterjohn, Chris&lt;/span&gt; -  Founder of website &lt;a href="http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cholesterol And Health&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and indefatigable debater in various forums.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- R O S E D A L E --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_rosedale"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rosedale, Dr Ron&lt;/span&gt; - Author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosedale-Diet-Ron/dp/0060565721"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Rosedale Diet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Videos | &lt;a href="http://lavida.kgnu.net/lavidaradioshow.php?show_id=47"&gt;Audio&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://drbass.com/rosedale2.html"&gt;Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- S T A N L E Y --&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_stanley"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Stanley, Owsley&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - (aka Bear). Noted advocate (in a low-key way) of an entirely carnivorous diet for humans. His controversial bulletin board thread on the subject garnered over 3,700 posts and created many enthusiasts for his approach. The full thread is &lt;a href="http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=287013"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, with shortened versions available as &lt;a href="http://www.vikingdan.com/BestOfTheBear.doc"&gt;Best of the Bear&lt;/a&gt; (.doc file from Viking Dan), and as &lt;a href="http://magicbus.myfreeforum.org/Bear_s_Words_of_Wisdom_about63.html"&gt;Bear's Words of Wisdom&lt;/a&gt; (at Magic Bus). See also Owsley's own essay at his site: &lt;a href="http://thebear.org/essays1.html#anchor496162"&gt;Diet and Exercise&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- S T E F A N S S O N --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_stefansson"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Stefansson, Vilhjalmur&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Polar explorer and anthropologist. Author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;amp;field-keywords=Vilhjalmur%20Stefansson%20&amp;amp;Go.x=0&amp;amp;Go.y=0&amp;amp;Go=Go"&gt;several books&lt;/a&gt;. Stefansson discovered while living with the Inuit that it was possible to live entirely on meat. He proved it in a year-long supervised trial in New York, which he recounts &lt;a href="http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- T A U B E S --&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a name="people_taubes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Taubes, Gary&lt;/span&gt; - Journalist. Author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes/dp/1400040787"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Good Calories, Bad Calories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (titled &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Diet Delusion&lt;/span&gt; outside the US).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=gary+taubes&amp;amp;sitesearch="&gt;Videos&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=gary+taubes+.mp3&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8"&gt;Audio&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=50&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;q=%22big+fat+lie%22+OR+%22soft+science%22+taubes&amp;amp;btnG=Search"&gt;Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8566645539492241147-1182349466629000657?l=chainey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chainey.blogspot.com/feeds/1182349466629000657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8566645539492241147&amp;postID=1182349466629000657' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8566645539492241147/posts/default/1182349466629000657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8566645539492241147/posts/default/1182349466629000657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chainey.blogspot.com/2009/09/people.html' title='People'/><author><name>Chainey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209117357558394101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14567661706520744028'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry></feed>