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Can Diabetics Eat Potatoes? An Experiment with Small Amounts of Starchy Food
I was planning to work on cutting some tree branches, so I figured it was a safe time to experiment with eating leftover potato. What I hadn’t planned on was an interruption from my mother, asking to take her grocery shopping.
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The Banting Diet: Low Carb from the 1800s!
The keto diet isn’t new at all. I thought it went back to the Atkins diet, but it actually went back a lot further than that, to a popular diet called the Banting diet. William Banting was a fat businessman who went on a diet according to the advice of his doctor, Dr. William Harvey,…
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Investigating Low Carb Beans
Beans are generally not accepted on a keto diet, and are forbidden on the LCHF group diet. The logic is sound: most legumes are high in carbs.
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Low-Carb Dim Sum? Possibly
I’ve been eating breakfast with my friend who really likes dim sum. I must have eaten more dim sum in the past half year than I’d eaten in the prior decade.
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Urine Tasting, Urine Trouble
This is the post that might get me in trouble, or at least impede my getting a job. I’ve tasted my own urine, and it helped me guess that I had diabetes.