Gary Taubes
Author, GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease Are you eating less but not losing weight? Join the crowd. Gary Taubes, award-winning journalist for SCIENCE MAGAZINE, presents convincing evidence debunking this notion. He flies in the face of 50 years of nutritional theory regarding weight loss. In his book, GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES, he argues persuasively that the solution to avoiding getting fat is not the number of calories eaten, but the kind. Should you doubt his hypothesis , look around at the escalating obesity epidemic. But find out for yourself. Listen to him on Getting Your Money's Worth with Judith West.
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tinyurl.com Dr. Gregers Recommendations for Optimum Vegetarian Nutrition Vitamin B12 One 2000 mcg (or μg) tablet (ideally chewed or dissolved under your tongue) once a week; or at least 10-100 mcg once a day; or servings of B12-fortified foods (containing at least 25% Daily Value on the label) at least twice a day. Essential Fatty Acids Two tablespoons of ground flax seeds every day or two teaspoons daily of flax seed oil, in addition to avoiding omega 6-rich oils (corn, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed), saturated fats, and trans fats. Diabetics and pregnant or breast-feeding women should take 300 mg of DHA every day. Vitamin D North of Los Angeles or Atlanta, non-elderly white non-sunscreen-using adults who spend time in the sun can get away with ensuring daily dietary Vitamin D just during the winter. Everyone else living at such latitudes should include daily Vitamin D sources in their diet year-round. Sources include Vitamin Dfortified foods, Vitamin D supplements, or eating about a dozen dried shitake mushrooms or a dozen fresh Chanterelle mushrooms every day. Calcium 1000 mg a day for ages 19-54 via cups of low-oxalate greens, fortified foods, and/or supplements. Iodine If you dont drink milk or eat seaweed or use iodized salt, you may need to supplement your diet. Iron Menstruating women should increase their intake by combining iron-rich and Vitamin C-rich foods at meals and should get checked for iron-deficiency anemia every few years. Men should be checked for ...