Food for Thought – archives

Food for Thought is where you’ll find the almost 200 referenced articles that explain the scientific basis of health and nutrition.

The archives of referenced articles before 2021 are on this page.

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
04/18/2013	Role of Green Tea Powder (Matcha) in Weight and Abdominal Fat Loss

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