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This is where you’ll find referenced articles posted from 2015 to 2021.

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NOTE:

• A Dietitian’s Journey (Part II) consists of 6 articles that document my recovery from profound hypothyroidism (June 3, 2022 – October 31, 2022) and are posted below, marked in a separate category, called “A Dietitian’s Journey”. These represent my personal experiences only, and should not be treated as scientific evidence or medical advice.
• There are 4 articles classified as “personal story” that represent my opinion or experiences only, and should not be treated as scientific evidence or medical advice.
• There are 2 referenced articles that have personal photos as illustrations and are marked as both “article” and “personal story”.

Current articles from 2021-2026 are available under the Food for Thought tab.

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ARTICLE ARCHIVE

Referenced articles before 2021

2020 Articles

Date	Article Title
12/13/2020	No Underlying Health Conditions – likely assumed not assessed
11/20/2020	The Difference Between Food Sensitivity Tests and Food Allergy Tests
11/06/2020	Stages of Change and Why Most People Regain Weight Loss
11/03/2020	Is a Diet High in Carbohydrate Appropriate for Humans?
08/30/2020	Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet and How it Differs from “the Keto Diet”
08/23/2020	The Stereotypical High Fat Keto Diet is Only ONE Type
08/16/2020	The Keto Diet — a potentially dangerous and an unhealthy diet
06/30/2020	American College of Cardiology: No Benefit to Lower Saturated Fat Intake
05/31/2020	New Protocols for In-Person Clinical Operation for Health Professionals
05/14/2020	Diabetes Canada Deems Low Carb and Very Low Carb Diet Safe
05/11/2020	Now That Things Are Getting Back to Normal – clinical appointments
05/03/2020	Better Outcome in Covid-19 and T2D with Well-Controlled Blood Sugars
04/29/2020	Too Much and Too Little is Killing Us – reducing comorbidities
04/22/2020	My Three Year Health Recovery Anniversary — a Dietitian’s Journey
04/16/2020	Obesity Most Significant Risk Factor to Covid-19 Hospitalization after Age
04/13/2020	Obesity Poses Significant Risk to People under Sixty with COVID
04/12/2020	Why Underlying or Comorbid Conditions are Very Important in COVID-19
02/25/2020	Canada Told to Prepare for Possible Pandemic Amidst 7th Case in BC
02/21/2020	Sixth Case of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Vancouver called a Sentinel Event
01/27/2020	Five Pounds or Fifty Pounds of Fat – in very real terms

2019 Articles

Date	Article Title
12/20/2019	New ADA Standards of Medical Care Includes Low Carbohydrate Diet
12/18/2019	Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Lose Weight or Improve Your Health?
11/22/2019	When to Eat and Not Eat, How Many Meals and Snacks
10/27/2019	Vitamin D Supplementation Can Help Protect Against the Flu
09/10/2019	Why Eating Less and Exercising More DOES Matter As We Age
09/08/2019	Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIIBO)
09/04/2019	Diagnosing Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
09/01/2019	What is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)?
08/19/2019	When Real Food is Deemed Offensive and Disturbing, not Processed Food
08/07/2019	Tyramine Intolerance – underlying cause of migraine headaches?
08/04/2019	Why So Many Post Menopausal Women and Older Men Have Low Iron
07/23/2019	Histamine Intolerance, MCAS and How Dietary Changes Help
07/21/2019	Milk Intolerance May be Caused by A1 Beta-Casein
07/19/2019	Arthritis is Not a Normal Part of Aging
07/17/2019	Three Ways to Put Type 2 Diabetes into Remission
07/14/2019	Trouble-shooting Ongoing Constipation on a Low Carb Diet
07/12/2019	What is IBS and Why Do Symptoms Improve on a Low Carb Diet?
07/11/2019	Have You Been Diagnosed with Diverticulosis?
07/09/2019	Experts: WHO Draft Guidelines Excludes Key Facts and Studies
07/02/2019	Focus on Limiting Ultra Processed Food Not Saturated Fat & Sodium
06/28/2019	CFG Snapshot – conflating Ultra-Processed Food and Whole, Real Foods?
06/24/2019	Only Half of People Have Newer Gene that Controls High Blood Sugar
06/20/2019	High Cholesterol and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
06/18/2019	Distinguishing Food from Food-like Products
05/14/2019	Is the Glycemic Index Reliable for Predicting Blood Sugar Response?
04/23/2019	ADA Includes Use of a Very Low Carb Keto Eating Pattern in New Report
04/18/2019	Eating One Slice of Bacon Per Day Does Not Increase Your Colon Cancer Risk
04/09/2019	Complex Carbohydrates as Long Chains of Sugar Molecules
04/07/2019	Dietary Saturated Fat is Not Associated with Increased Risk of CVD
03/24/2019	Green Tea Should not be like Buckley’s
03/22/2019	The Connection Between Sugar and Cancer
02/22/2019	Are You Pushing Your Pancreas Too Hard — estimating beta cell function
02/15/2019	McGill Professor: Risks and Benefits of Low-Carb Keto Diets
02/13/2019	Why I Posted My “Before” Pictures When I was Still Obese
02/07/2019	Middle-Eastern Style Lentil Soup – whole food plant based
02/01/2019	Reflections of a Nutritional Centrist
01/27/2019	Carbohydrates are Not Evil
01/24/2019	New Canada Food Guide – carbohydrate estimate of the sample plate
01/22/2019	The New Canada Food Guide at a Glance
01/20/2019	EAT-Lancet Diet – inadequate protein for older adults
01/18/2019	The New EAT Lancet Diet – healthy & sustainable for whom?
01/10/2019	Background to the New Canada Food Guide Draft
01/09/2019	New Canada Food Guide Drops Meat and Milk Groups
01/07/2019	The Mediterranean Diet

2018 Articles

Date	Article Title
12/28/2018	A New Year’s Resolution – a goal without a plan
12/27/2018	Will You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolution?
12/26/2018	Why I Suggest Avoiding These New Year’s Resolutions
12/18/2018	Low Carb Diet in 2019 American Diabetes Association Standards of Care
12/14/2018	The Difference Between Reversal and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes
12/05/2018	Insulin Resistance, Hyperinsulinemia and Hyperglycemia
11/30/2018	There Are Now Two Stages BEFORE a Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
11/29/2018	The Three Stages of Carbohydrate Intolerance — before type 2 diabetes
11/26/2018	When Normal Fasting Blood Glucose Isn’t Necessarily “Fine”
10/17/2018	Finally Reaching Normal Body Weight – a Dietitian’s Journey
10/16/2018	The Effect of Cannabis on Appetite, Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels
10/07/2018	American Diabetes Association and European EASD Approve Low-Carb Diets
09/30/2018	Silver Bullet for Addressing Carb Cravings
09/28/2018	A Trial of the Evidence
08/29/2018	Are Low Carbohydrate Diets Linked to Risk of Premature Death?
08/28/2018	An Accurate New Estimator of Whole Body Fat Percentage
08/24/2018	Is Coconut Oil Pure Poison?
08/23/2018	Do Low Carb Diets Shorten Lifespan – a closer look
08/22/2018	Low Carbohydrate Eating for People with Diabetes
08/21/2018	My Approach to Eating Low Carb and Links to Popular Recipes
08/16/2018	The Tip of the Iceberg – what we can’t see puts us at risk
08/09/2018	Alzheimer’s Disease as Glucose Dysfunction of the Brain
08/02/2018	When Fat Was Made the Villain
07/30/2018	Early Warning Signs that May Help Prevent Developing Type 2 Diabetes
07/28/2018	Stanford Blood Sugar Study Findings Known for More Than 45 Years
07/26/2018	American Diabetes Association (ADA) is Making Sense of Carbs
07/13/2018	Dairy Fat Doesn’t Increase the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
07/04/2018	Update on My Own Weight Loss Journey
06/26/2018	Refined Carbohydrate with Vegetable Oil Was Known to Cause Weight Gain
06/21/2018	Some Carbs Are Better Than Others – Part 4 – the Insulin Index
06/20/2018	The Perils of Food Processing (II) – what affects absorption of carbs
06/19/2018	A New Study Explains Why Carbs and Fat Together are Irresistible
06/13/2018	10 Common Myths about a Low Carb Diet
06/08/2018	The Perils of Food Processing – effect on absorption and hormones
06/04/2018	Obesity – Perfect Storm of Refined Carbs and Industrial Seed Oils
05/31/2018	The Per Person Yearly Cost of Having Type 2 Diabetes
05/29/2018	Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet in Type 2 Diabetes Lowers CVD Risk
05/24/2018	Two More Good Indicators of Cardiovascular Risk
05/22/2018	Why Waist Circumference and Waist to Height Ratio Are So Important
05/08/2018	Don’t Try This at Home – when medical supervision is needed
04/26/2018	Some Carbs are Better than Others (for Diabetics) – Part 3
04/20/2018	Are Some Carbs Better Than Others – Part 2
04/17/2018	Are Some Carbs Better Than Others – Part 1
04/05/2018	Concerns with Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils – Part 2
04/05/2018	Concerns with Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils – Part 1
03/21/2018	Do Saturated Fats Cause Heart Disease?
03/15/2018	The Marketing of Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils
03/12/2018	Researchers that Blamed Saturated Fat as Cause of Heart Disease – paid by sugar industry
03/01/2018	The Role of Protein in the Diet of Older Adults
02/22/2018	Unreliability of Many Blood Glucose Monitors
01/11/2018	Bubby’s Chicken Soup

2017 & Older

Date	Article Title
05/11/2017	1977 Dietary Recommendations — forty years on
04/27/2017	Humans – the perfect hybrid machine
04/24/2017	Low Carb Green Tea Matcha Smoothie – role in weight and abdominal fat loss
06/24/2015	Obesity Rates and Changes to Canada’s Food Guide
05/25/2015	Canada’s Food Guide — an Epidemiological Experiment Gone Wrong?
04/13/2015	Why do we Gain Weight — the myth of ”Calories in, Calories out”

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