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Finding what's healthy & eating well at Indian restaurants

2/20/2012

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What do we eat food for if not for sustenance, nourishment and enjoyment? Having been at Indian restaurants several times in the past 2 weeks has given me (forgive the terrible pun) food for thought on how to eat well at Indian restaurants.

After all, you'll get calories (sometimes plenty) to keep up with the day (which is the sustenance part) at an Indian restaurant
, and also have a good time (the enjoyment part). But how do you  get the best nutrition (the nourishment part)? 

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Donations made for January e-book campaign

2/18/2012

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Thank you for helping us get the word out during our 99 cent e-book campaign in January where we sequestered 25% of proceeds from that month to cancer prevention research. We're still waiting on the final tally (Apple e-book sales aren't yet reported), but we donated based on projections a total of $300 to the American Cancer Society and Lance Armstrong Foundation. The donations were just made online. Appreciate you our fans, friends and family for helping us in some small way making a difference.
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"Low-fat" foods will make you fat

2/6/2012

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There is a lot of evidence that refined carbs (like sugar, flour and white rice) are worse for us than dietary fats (including saturated fats), and that regularly eating refined carbs makes us accumulate body fat unlike anything else we eat. Along the same lines, Dr. Frank Hu, a physician-turned-nutrition researcher at Harvard wrote in a 2010 editorial article: "refined carbohydrates are likely to cause even greater metabolic damage than saturated fat." 
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Dr. Hu does in that article what I do with my friends: Friends, I say, be careful of foods labeled "low-fat." Avoid them in fact. Why? Because in almost every case, a food labeled "low-fat" has a lot of refined carbs. Why is that? Well, because food makers have to replace the tasty dietary fats in their products with something that gets us hooked. Don't believe me? See the photos.  

In the photo to the right is half-and-half made from the same company, except that the one on the left is labeled "low fat." Don't think low-fat milk/cream has added sugar? Well, look below.

On the right is the half-and-half I use everyday for my coffee. It is almost completely what half-and-half is supposed to be: milk and cream. Now on the left is the "low-fat" half-and-half, which is made of "skim milk" and "corn syrup." What is corn syrup? Sugar. It's from corn starch, or the endosperm part of the corn grain, and this stuff is refined by mechanical processes until it can be used to replace cream.  I surprise people when I tell them that their low-fat half-and-half has sugar, but the proof is in the pudding, or as it were on the Nutrition Facts label.

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