Sugar/Carbs

Gary Taubes was my gateway drug into the LCHF (low carb high fat) world. I read his book Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It and I was hooked. This video is a short summary of that book.

Gary Taubes then wrote a book called The Case against Sugar. This video is a short summary of that book.

Robert Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist. Sugar is approximately half glucose and half fructose. Fructose gets processed in the liver just like alcohol and the result is fatty liver disease. His book is entitled Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease.

This Robert Lustig video is both a recap and a continuation of the previous video. Sugar - especially fructose - is the devil !

Ivor Cummins is a chemical engineer whose specialty was complex problem solving with an emphasis on finding the root cause of problems in complicated manufacturing systems. When he got some bad results on his blood tests, and his doctors could not explain the science behind these results, he did some research and figured it out for himself. Then he went back and explained it to his doctors.

Dr. Ted Naiman was raised to be a vegetarion. His health was not the best and he figured out that by changing his diet things got better. You should also check out Ted's video that I placed in the Diabetes section of this web site.

This is a link to the documentary "The Magic Pill" on YouTube. It has Spanish subtitles. You can also find this documentary on NetFlix without the subtitles. The movie is about people who went on low carb diets to improve various health problems that they had.

This is a good documentary about how carbs cause diabetes, obesity and other health problems.

Dr. Atkins was vilified as a quack but as you can see from this video his diet was based on solid science. The slides in this video are fuzzy but he is such an important figure in the low carb space that I had to add it to this web site.