Here are a few items that caught my eye during the past week:
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For a bit of inspiration, take a look at Dave Parsons’ story at Mark’s Daily Apple. Below are his before and after photos (16 months apart).
- Dr. Kurt Harris at PaNu wrote an interesting post a couple of years ago called Eliminate sugar and refined carbohydrates like wheat flour. For the average American, 22% of daily calories come from sugar and HFCS and 30% comes from wheat flour.
Unbelievable! What a waste of an opportunity to eat something nutritious.
- The USDA has updated its dietary guidelines again (amazing what a room full of bureaucrats can dream up).
- For a thorough but simple overview of the changes, check out this post by Stephan Guyenet.
- For the geeked-out, uber-detailed, smack down version, check out Denise Minger’s post.
- Finally, if you would like to make progress like Dave Parsons, don’t emulate these folks who ran in the annual Krispy Kreme Challenge (over 5000 people entered).
Yeah, Dave has made the most stunning transformation I’ve seen. To turn things around like that at 54 is really amazing. He’ll be giving Mark Sisson a run for his money in the abs dept pretty soon.
Agreed. I am betting that he had a lot of muscle buried beneath the fat (had to be pretty strong to move that weight around daily).
Wow, that’s an awesome transformation! And you’ve mentioned most of my favorite sites about nutrition in you post.