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Going Primal with Dana Carpender

When I started low carbing in 1995, low fat/high carb mania was still in full swing. Snackwells were selling like crazy, pasta salad and bagels were still "healthy," and I was clearly nuts. (Well, that had been clear for quite a while, but for other reasons.) Even I was worried I might keel over dead in the first six weeks.

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Flax Z Snax No Sugar Added Granola

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear Valued Customer, As one of the leading online retailers of Low Carb products, the accuracy of the nutritional facts and ingredients listed on each of the products we sell is very important to us. The success of a low carb dieter or a person with diabetes, is …

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Did Ancel Keys Help Make Us Fat? by Dana Carpender

Right now, half of you are saying, "Well, of course, duh." My guess is you know the rest of what I'm going to say, so you could go look at LOLCats instead. (Oh, hai!) The rest of you are saying "Ancel Keys? Who the heck is Ancel Keys?" You're the ones who need to read on, because Ancel Keys has profoundly influenced your life, and the lives of everyone you love - or hate, or are indifferent to - and not for the better. Ancel Keys was the teller of one of the most damaging lies in the history of human kind. Ancel Keys is the man who convinced the world that saturated fat is dangerous.

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