Carb Syndrome Blog Articles
Massachusetts and Mental Health: A Man Made Mess
A recent article in the Boston Globe titled “A Broken Covenant” outlines the dismal failure of Massachusetts’s efforts to manage mental health over the past few decades. A long line of Governors, politicians and bureaucrats has closed many of the state’s inpatient...
The ADHD Diet Connection
The topic of the connection between diet and various brain disorders keeps hitting the headlines. Several years ago a study that literally shook the medical world was published in The Lancet, one of our major medical journals. This remarkable study was led by Dr. Lidy...
The Messy World of Science and Biology
It seems like daily we are exposed to headlines implying that two variables are somehow connected. From there it is a short step to concluding that one variable is causing or strongly influencing the other variable. On the surface this is the “correlation suggests...
It’s About Time— The Experts Finally Agree that Diet Affects Mental Health
A Broken Record For years my friends have accused me of sounding like a broken record. I keep insisting that diet plays an absolute key role in brain function. I also believe that a diet of highly processed food increases your risk of getting many common brain...
I Don’t Want to be an Expert — I Want to be a Future Expert!
It seems like the ultimate goal for anyone in medicine and science is to become an “expert” because experts rule. The media wants their opinion on every medical and scientific issue and whenever they bloviate, common slobs are expected to listen. Experts are...
Daily Table’s Attack on Food Insecurity
Am I Food Insecure? The Boston Globe recently ran a story written by Taryn Luna about a new grocery store concept called Daily Table. Doug Rauch, former president of the upscale grocery chain Trader Joe’s, runs the non-profit company that developed this unique...
I’m hatin’ it!
It was almost midnight and I found myself trying to force down a Big Mac and stale French fries that came in a bag with the phrase “I’m lovin’ it” plastered in large letters on the side of it. I hadn’t eaten at McDonald’s since at least 2003, the year that the “I’m...
The Evolution of Processed Food
When it comes to issues of diet and health, the term “processed food” is sure to come up. Defining processed food is somewhat challenging. Perhaps it would be helpful to first define non-processed or whole food. This is food that you can kill, catch or find in nature....
The Sugar Season
I certainly agree with most of the points in this recent New York Times Op-Ed article "Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere and Addictive." I communicate frequently with my friend Dr. DiNicolantonio and we share many views about the dangers of refined sugars. Pioneers like...
Gateway Foods
I’m fairly certain that you’ve heard about the concept of “gateway drugs”. The gateway theory is based on the idea that those who use substances like alcohol, nicotine or marijuana are much more likely to move on to more dangerous and addictive drugs like heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. Although this connection isn’t universally accepted by all experts, there is a fair amount of empirical and research data supporting the concept.