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HOAX – Texas Town adds sugar to drinking water supply

    LISTEN (5 Minutes) SHELLEY’S NOTE:  It was all over the internet – the Canadian Broadcast Corporation did an interview with a man from Talon, Texas, in Pecos County, where the man explained why the town of Talon is adding sugar to the drinking water so that more people will drink it.  How much sugar?…

Thermogenesis – Not So Good For Health – Ron Rosedale

LISTEN (30 Minutes) Ron Rosedale, there are about a thousand ways that a person can look at health research and a thousand details to check.  It’s so confusing. To understand how we work and how our metabolism works, what if we start by figuring out what questions to ask?   RON ROSEDALE:  – Sorting through confusion—that’s…

Ron Rosedale/Dean Ornish Debate from 1999

     LISTEN (30 minutes) Well over a decade ago, in 1999, Ron Rosedale and Dean Ornish agreed to meet for a debate that I recorded for KGNU Boulder/Denver about what’s healthier – a low fat, or a high fat diet.  

July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test – Passed!

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance Tests

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsHere are the numbers from my July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test.  In this test, I passed and have, according to medical measurements, normal blood sugars throughout the test.  In 2005, I failed two glucose tolerance tests.  That earned me the diagnosis…

Steve Phinney: A Calorie is Not Just a Calorie

        LISTEN (20 Minutes) Steve Phinney, what you think about the new study from Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital about “A Calorie is not just a Calorie.”  STEVE PHINNEY:  Well there is that (the concept that a Calorie is not just a Calorie).  That’s what grabbed a lot of the news, and that’s a…

Ron Rosedale Comments on New Harvard Study

  Ron Rosedale challenges the new Harvard Study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  He says the study itself has many good points regarding the importance of noting that not all calories are equal, and reducing carbs may be more important than reducing fat.  But in press reports, he’s concerned…