Today, I compiled a list of links for my parents and my in-laws. I figured that it would be a good idea to share them with you too.
First of all, I’m a big fan of Tom Naughton’s Fat Head. Since seeing it, I’ve started following Tom’s posts on his blog at fathead-movie.com. His latest post, Four Diets, One Study, is a good read and includes a video from a professor at Stanford. A few other posts on his site that I pointed out for comic relief and/or nutritional information: The French Paradox, Margarine and Mother Nature, Jimmy and MONICA: A Tale From the Heart, and Vitamin D Is DINOMIT Against Cancer. All of his posts are worth reading… at least the ones I’ve seen.
Another great blog to follow is the blog of Dr. Michael Eades. His latest post from October 13th includes the same video that Tom’s post above does. My favorite recent post from his blog is Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II.
The final link I relayed to the ‘rents was a summary of Taubes’ Book and the Real Cause of Obesity over at the Normal Eating Blog. I highly recommend reading Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories, but I agree with Sheryl’s description that it is informative and dense to the point that a lot of people likely won’t finish. I’ll finish it, but I’m a geek by nature and an engineer by training so I’m, by definition, abnormal.