#john durant

[cowboyhudsons]

[progtopus-blog]

Song: Dissemble Album: Etymology Artist: Burnt Belief Purchase Here

- I bet they threw out this couch afterwards.

[progtopus-blog]

Trailer video for upcoming Burnt Belief release... (Porcupine Tree’s Colin Edwin collaboration with guitarist John Durant)

[brianmackenzie]

[kramlabs]

The problems with industrial foods, ancient food paths, biblical food laws, Moses the microbiologist, hand washing and more....

[apieceofstrange90]

The only truly nonessential macronutrient is carbohydrate. People can subsist on a fat and protein diet (called a ketogenic diet), but they can't subsist on a fat and carbohydrate diet (which lacks essential amino acids) or a protein and carbohydrate diet (which lacks essential fats.) This doesn't mean that zero carbohydrate is optimal, of course, but it does mean that carbohydrate isn't essential.

John Durant

[apieceofstrange90]

The so-called French Paradox isn't a paradox. The French have low rates of heart disease not despite eating so much saturated fat, but rather because of it, or at the very least independently of their high saturated fat intake. The widespread advice to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), which are commonly found in vegetable oils, is more troubling in light of the "Israeli Paradox." Israelis consume lots of PUFAs and little saturated fat--and they have notably high rates of heart disease. Perhaps these aren't "paradoxes" but evidence that the conventional wisdom is backward.

John Durant

[apieceofstrange90]

We Americans would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble if we had never discovered the (overly) simple fact that a gram of fat contains more calories than a gram of protein or carbohydrate, which seems to suggest that, all things equal, any overweight animal should eat more carbohydrate and less fat to lose weight. Yet carb-heavy grains are exactly what farmers feed to livestock to fatten them up as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Let me repeat that, just for good measure: grains--the base of the USDA food pyramid for humans--are what American farmers use to fatten up their livestock.

John Durant