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“Reduce your diet by 500 calories a day and lose a pound a week!” I’ve been seeing headlines like that for a long time and I’m sure you have too.  So why when I did exactly what was promoted did I not lose weight? Since I’ve had such great success at losing weight on a […]

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Wow, what a month. After a few months of calorie restriction that didn’t go anywhere along with copious amounts of exercise where I ended up gaining weight, I went on a 3 week milk cure and lost almost 6 pounds in three weeks. This month I embarked on my ketogenic (low carbohydrate) eating plan. I […]

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I’m an idiot.  Seriously.  If I could I’d slap myself.  Since that isn’t really possible (I’d duck), I’m posting this as a public mea culpa. Three weeks of drinking nothing but raw milk (3 1/2 quarts to a gallon a day) and watching the changes that came over my body was a revelation to me. I lost […]

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Every so often when I find a book that I think people need to read, I’ll post a review.   In the 1970’s Dr. Robert Atkins, a cardiologist, published “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution” after following a low-starch diet based on work  done previously by Gordon, Goldberg and Chosy in an article published in 1963 in […]

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