Category: Tests

BMI? (Body Mass Index) Bunk! Interview with Dr. Ron Rosedale

LISTEN (1 HOUR) (Note from Shelley)  Body Mass Index is a calculation based on your height and your weight. It’s supposed to be a way to determine whether you’re thin or fat.  A bigger BMI, has not been considered healthy. Earlier this year, that got challenged, when the Journal of the American Medical Association published…

Julian Bakery Whistleblower Starts New Website

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Net Carb or Net Farce?

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Net Carb or Net Farce?For those of you who wonder how much you can trust the labeling on Low Carb foods, here’s a cautionary tale from Deborah Krueger, who became so suspicious of the “low-carb” breads from Julian Bakery, she started testing them on herself…

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…

Ron Krauss – Saturated Fat? Red Meat? It Depends . . .

EDITOR’S NOTE – This conversation with Ron Krauss took place in late March 2012.  It focuses on the health questions involving saturated fat and red meat that have been in the news of late.  Ron is a Senior Scientist and Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department…

High-fiber foods and blood sugar – Quest Protein Bar Interview

LISTEN TO INTERVIEW (30 MINUTES) Editor’s note – “High-fiber, low-net carb” products are often marketed as helpful for keeping blood sugars low.  The idea that a consumer can subtract the “fiber” carbs from the “total carbs,” to figure out “net carbs,” seems logical on first glance.  But like a growing number of  health experts and…

Ron Rosedale – The Toast Test

LISTEN (4 minutes) Ron Rosedale A long time ago, maybe 15 years ago, when I was in Asheville, North Carolina, before leptin was discovered, I was doing a lot of research on my patients about insulin, to see what lowered it, what raised it. I remember one boy who came in, brought in by really…