E.g., AFAIK Gary Taubes goes on about that deluded concept as it it were true. Gary et al need to spend an easy 5 minutes looking up the GI of white versus whole wheat (not stone ground) bread. Then do the same for rice. Then top it off by looking up *white* spaghetti, from the typical durum semolina wheat - and see that it’s lower than brown rice or bread.

The canard used to be ’simple vs complex’. now it ‘processed vs whole’.

I myself only buy (or make) whole wheat bread, but it’s not because of GI.

would those be the BIG small salmon we see leaping up the streams in the wilds of Alaska videos? Like three foot long or more?

Well, the idea is that small fish have less mercury and/or toxins; but salmon aren’t small, they are big and they are up the food chain. But what they (sockeye, anyway) are, is fast growing - and so supposedly they haven’t lived long enough to accumulate lots of the bad things.

But besides that, the idea of small amounts of protein would be open to debate - just look at the Protein Power blog by Dr. Eades, e.g. Then again, they advocate eating unlimited SFA fat. It goes round and round.

Lest it seem I am too critical, I’d again state that I like Dr. Parker’s blog - as it’s an overview and not a zealot type of place

Taubes at the very end of “Good Calories, Bad Calories” wonders if an Atkins-style diet might be more or less healthy than a Mediterranean-style diet. He’s open to either possibility, like me. He says the comparison study just hasn’t been done.

Open-minded honest people would say “just show me the data.”

-Steve

I look forward to reading your blog and adapting to this new way of eating into my life. Losing 40 pounds seems daunting to me now, but very necessary, the consequences are too high.

It’s “perimenopause” or “perimenopausal.” Not common words, so don’t feel bad. Useful concept.

Sorry about the frustrating weight gain. I bet you can beat it.

-Steve