Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life
By Christian Allan PhD and Wolfgang Lutz MD
Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains may be Hazardous to Your Health
By James Braly MD and Ron Hoggan MA
[[MORE]]Both are rich with technical citations (as is Taubes, of course).
Then there’s the Hyperlipid blog: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/, also written by a scientist.
One post that I found particularly enlightening:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2009/03/cholesterol-within-nations-studies.html
It includes the graphs below (derived from published papers), which say that your relative risk of heart disease is much more strongly correlated to your HbA1c level than to total cholesterol. How do you minimize HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin, which is caused by high levels of blood sugar)? With a low-carb / paleo diet.


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