- trouble at the American Meteorological Society
- the power of mood-sharing by Alexandra Carmichael
- crash diet reverses Type 2 diabetes in a week
- archeology of fermentation
- American capitalism with Chinese characteristics: James Stewart’s first column for the New York Times. Stewart is one of my favorite writers.
Thanks to Anne Weiss.
For comments on that “crash diet” see Jenny Ruhl’s latest blog posting:
‘Idiotically Dangerous Diet “Reverses Diabetes” but So Does Moderate Carb Restriction Without Calorie Restriction’
https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/idiotically-dangerous-diet-reverses.html
Ruhl doesn’t really support her assertion that the diet is dangerous.
It seems very unlikely to me that it is. I have to believe that we evolved to be extremely well equipped to go a single week on sparse food. It seems very believable that it would have a salutary effect after five or six decades of uninterrupted gorging.
The “KimKins” diet that she throws up is a red herring. Kimkins was the fat, fraudulent, scientifically-illiterate housewife whose low carb, low fat, high protein “Kimkins” diet really was dangerous as it results in “rabbit starvation”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation