{"id":1464,"date":"2013-01-03T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:01:18","slug":"diet-advice-that-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/diet-advice-that-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet advice that makes sense…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of bloggers in recent months have discovered Gary Taubes, a science writer, who has analyzed the popular advice on dieting and concluded it just doesn’t make sense.\u00a0 Taubes first book was really an investigative tour de force, debunking the basic “calories in-calories out” approach.\u00a0 He even questioned the benefits of exercise.<\/p>\n

He has a more popular version of his research out now and, if you’ve never had much luck losing weight and keeping it off, you may want to check it out.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0307474259\/?tag=powlin-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Confession: having enjoyed my own cooking too much in recent years, I decided it was time to reverse course.\u00a0 Since the day after Thanksgiving, I’ve lost 27 pounds.\u00a0 Probably not the most healthy approach to weight loss but I’ve always been impatient to see fast results in whatever I do.\u00a0 I’m depending on the Taubes guidelines to balance things out.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, my diet still includes grass fed beef and red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of bloggers in recent months have discovered Gary Taubes, a science writer, who has analyzed the popular advice on dieting and concluded it just doesn’t make sense.\u00a0 Taubes first book was really an investigative tour de force, debunking the basic “calories in-calories out” approach.\u00a0 He even questioned the benefits of exercise. He has a more popular version of his research out now and, if you’ve never had much luck losing weight and keeping it off, you may want to check it out. http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0307474259\/?tag=powlin-20 Confession: having enjoyed my own cooking too much in recent years, I decided it was time to reverse course.\u00a0 Since the day after Thanksgiving, I’ve lost 27 pounds.\u00a0 Probably not the most healthy approach to weight loss but I’ve always been impatient to see fast results in whatever I do.\u00a0 I’m depending on the Taubes guidelines to balance things out. Incidentally, my diet still includes grass fed beef and red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}