The vegan group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is at it again, this time with big billboards implying that cheese makes you fat, vividly illustrated with fat limbs and bellies. What reason do they have to make this implication? Oh, undoubtedly the vegan circuit in their brains is very active and self-reinforcing, but apparently this particular salvo was launched in upstate New York because the schools include cheese in some of their lunches. (They've also apparently put similar billboards up in Wisconsin, a particularly ballsy move.)

Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together would question this association. Read More...

I am a real fan of Dr. Mary Vernon, co-author of Atkins Diabetes Revolution. I've heard her speak many times, from Nutrition and Metabolism conferences to the Low-Carb Cruise. Often, she is educating other physicians about how to effectively use a low-carb approach with their patients.

If you can't get to a conference, I have a video for you: Swedish physician Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt interviewed Dr. Vernon for his blog. It would be helpful for your doctor to see as well, as she explains what led her to begin to use a low-carb approach with her patients, and her clinical experience with them. Dr. Vernon says such provocative things as: "Nobody needs to count calories." "Everybody should eat low-carb" (but the amount of carbohydrate a person can eat varies according to the individual), and that she doesn't care about a patient's weight (though people usually do lose weight); instead she focuses on their about metabolic health. Intrigued? Catch the Interview Here.

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• My Interview with Dr. Vernon
  
  
• How Much Protein do you Need?
  
  
• Carb Counts of Common Foods

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Why go out to a restaurant when you can have a simple, yet romantic Valentine dinner at home? Check out these tips for a Low-Carb Valentine's Day.

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Last year saw the publication of the book The New Atkins for a New You by Drs. Westman, Phinney, and Volek, which I highly recommend. Now the companion cookbook, The New Atkins for a New You Cookbook by Colette Heimowitz has been released. Last week I had the opportunity to chat for a few minutes with Ms. Heimowitz, and also chef and Food Network personality Donatella Arpaia, who is using the Atkins diet to shed weight after having a baby last year.

Ms. Heimowitz is a nutritionist who was the Director of Nutrition for Dr. Robert Atkins and now serves as Vice President of Nutrition and Education for Atkins Nutritionals. I asked her about the current goals of Atkins Nutritionals and of her new cookbook. She said that the company is doing very well, and is now outselling all of its competitors in the weight loss product category. I think that says a lot about how low-carb eating is progressing in the minds of people. For the cookbook, the main focus is on simple, quick and easy meals that can be made in half an hour. Read More...