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Empirica: Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat.
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Draft v1.0.0.a, 2013-12-28, a joint post by Zooko and Amber. Ribeye steak photo from Serious Eats. How to try a keto diet. Many people have asked me and Zooko where to begin with a ketogenic diet, or how to troubleshoot a ketogenic diet that hasn't given all the benefits they were hoping for. On our science blog ( The Ketogenic Diet for Health. Our recommendation is simple: eat nothing but meat for 30 days. What to look for.
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Empirica: On lard (from Gary Taubes)
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Monday, April 8, 2013. On lard (from Gary Taubes). I recently misremembered these figures when talking to friend, so I'm setting the record straight. That nearly half the fat in lard (47 percent) is monounsaturated, which is almost universally considered a "good" fat. Monounsaturated fat raises HDL cholesterol and. From Gary Taubes in Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. April 8, 2013 at 6:52 PM. August 15, 2013 at 9:44 PM. September 6, 2013 at 8:12 PM. Empirica ...
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Empirica: Dear Lyle McDonald,
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Saturday, January 3, 2015. Dear Lyle McDonald,. I read your Open Apology to the Internet. Yesterday. You are courageous to talk about it, and my heart goes out to you. Although I don't know exactly what trouble you've gotten yourself into, I know the pain of Bipolar II, because I have it. Or I. It Words get a bit tricky, and I have written an entire essay on whether someone has a disease or not when they show no symptoms. I have no symptoms of bipolar. As you say, bi...
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Empirica: Experiences of a five-year carnivore: Part II
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Experiences of a five-year carnivore: Part II. Part II: Eating, then and now. When I first was thinking about trying an all-meat diet (Part I). I worried about things like boredom, and missing favourite plants. In practice this hasn't been a problem, because. My concept of what constitutes food has changed. You may have have experienced this if you don't normally eat "processed" foods [1]. Amber eats chicken bones. Changes in fat intake.
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Empirica: Weight loss advice from fat people
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Friday, October 24, 2014. Weight loss advice from fat people. There is an assumption that is easy to make about health advice: that the health of the person giving advice is a good test of the correctness of their theories. This is a terrible mistake. Here are a couple of reasons why it is a mistake:. It conflates what people advocate with what they do. It doesn't take into account what the person is struggling with. Judges of what works and what doesn't. There i...
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Empirica: The ketogenic diet as the default human diet: an energy perspective
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. The ketogenic diet as the default human diet: an energy perspective. The conditions under which the liver delivers optimal fuel on demand may be the conditions under which it evolved. When you are on a ketogenic diet, the. In your cells — the parts of the cells that produce energy — actually switch from primarily using sugar for fuel to primarily using fat for fuel. They use fat mostly in a form called. Ketone bodies (or, commonly, ketones).
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Empirica: November 2014
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Experiences of a five-year carnivore: Part II. Part II: Eating, then and now. When I first was thinking about trying an all-meat diet (Part I). I worried about things like boredom, and missing favourite plants. In practice this hasn't been a problem, because. My concept of what constitutes food has changed. You may have have experienced this if you don't normally eat "processed" foods [1]. Amber eats chicken bones. Changes in fat intake.
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Empirica: The mystery of hippopotamus fat
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Sunday, January 18, 2015. The mystery of hippopotamus fat. A friend recently drew my attention to an historical essay about a plan to bring hippos to the U.S. primarily for eating. Unfortunately, that plan never came to fruition. Hippos are one of the fatter animals left, endangered because their meat is so prized, and I wonder why we don't just farm them. Schweinfurth's (1978) interesting narrative provides additional insights into the amount of fat that one can obt...
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Empirica: Deeper ketosis without protein restriction
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Eat meat. Not too little. Mostly fat. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Deeper ketosis without protein restriction. I am delighted to report that for a couple of weeks now I have consistently been in the 1.5 — 3.5 mmol/L range without restricting the quantity of my food. The trick seems to be exercise. A few weeks ago, I made a few lifestyle changes at once. (I don't always have time for controls! I started getting up at 5:30 (amended to 5:00 several days later). I gave up all but two small cups of coffee a day.
