Category: Blog
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More baloney on eating meat
Each week it seems we get a new study on the effects of eating meat. Last week meat is great and this week meat is crap. Who knows what to believe anymore!! What I do know is that I’m not going to put much stock in a study that uses diaries to record what people…
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Is popcorn keto??
The simple answer is no. It’s corn. But, if you’re eating absolutely no carbs on the day you’re eating popcorn AND you limit yourself to a few cups of popcorn you can squeak by without knocking yourself our of ketosis. But wait—it’s not all bad news for popcorn devotees. “If you popped your own popcorn…
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Woman loses 80 lbs. in a year through intermittent fasting
Intermittent fasting (IF) or Time Restricted Eating (TRE), call it what you want but either way you’re not eating as much as you used to and you’re not spiking your insulin every few hours. The results are incredible and it’s so easy to do. With a Ph.D. in epidemiology, Etienne-Mesubi put her research skills to…
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Is Peanut Butter Keto Friendly?
In short… yes. But you can’t have too much or you’ll blow through your carb allotment for the day. And definitely don’t have it with jelly, jam, preserves, or bread! “Technically, peanuts are a legume, which are typically eliminated on a keto diet,” Naomi Whittel, Gainesville, Florida-based author of High Fiber Keto, tells Health. But…
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LA Times Keto Recipes
The recipe that interests me the most in this article is the Brine-Braised Chicken Thighs With Kale and Avocado. I plan on giving this a try soon! The recipes in keto cookbooks often contain mutations of classics with odd ingredient substitutions like meatballs and, er, zucchini noodles. In my view, substitutions like that shine a…
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The consensus on the power of coffee is…
It will wake you up in the morning. This was an entire article about possible benefits of coffee and caffeine where they pretty much hedge on every claim except for coffee’s ability to keep you awake. At the end of the day, where does all this leave us on the biology of coffee? Well, as…
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Don’t get your information from Vice.com
I saw the headline and I knew it would be about the ketogenic diet. So I clicked to confirm and I was right. What I didn’t expect was the massive amount of inaccurate information in such a small crappy article. Like most other diets, keto’s best advertisers are the people painfully dragging themselves through its…
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Chicken Thighs in Lemon Butter w/ Capers
This is an easy and quick weeknight meal. I love chicken thighs because they are difficult to over cook and they have tons of flavor. I’ve always preferred dark meat on birds to the white meat. This dish should take no more than 30 minutes from start to finish. I served this along side some…