Category: Diets

Low carb blueberry muffins

The problem with recipe blogs is you’re very likely to slip into a diabetic coma and die while trying to find the recipe. Nevermind the twenty-five page George R R Martin style epic hero’s journey. How many eggs do I need?? With that said, here is the recipe.  Ingredients (6 muffins): 4 medium-sized eggs 110g…
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23:1, or One Meal A Day Diet

A couple of months back the bear was suffering from food fatigue. In an ironic twist the diabetes that had made me unable to eat anything, had made our whole life evolve around food. Whereas before we had eaten whenever we were hungry, I was now eating three regular meals a day…

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Most Googled Diets

Every year Google releases statistics of what people have searched the most for. As I looked through the lists I realized that I had no idea who most of the people on there were, but on the diet front I was up to date. A sign of getting old perhaps? Google processes 40,000 search queries…
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Staying in touch with the pig

When you’re a diabetic on a low carb diet high in meat you have some ethical concerns. I’ve read Peter Singer and I didn’t eat meat for several years when I was younger. I’ll always pay a bit more for the ethical option. In addition to knowing that the animal had a decent life, there…
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Low carb food at the end of the world

Prague has turned into a ghost town with the COVID-19 epidemic. After the government declared a state of emergency last week, there’s an apocalyptic feel in the streets. All bars, restaurants, and shops (with supermarkets and pharmacies the exception) have closed. So has the border. Looking out the window this morning I noticed that everyone was wearing facemasks…

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The case for a low carbohydrate breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This old adage has nothing to do with science. It was created by Adventists Jackson and Kellogg to sell more breakfast cereal in the 19th century. Later the bacon industry jumped on the bandwagon, which cemented the myth…

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