Comment Published in Nature

I recently read an opinion piece by Gary Taubes in the scientific journal Nature, titled "Treat Obesity as Physiology, not Physics", in which he promoted NuSI and repeated the statement that obesity research is a "house of cards" because it focuses on calories in/out, at the expense of studying the "hormonal regulatory disorders" underlying obesity (1). I wrote a letter to the editor in response to Taubes's commentary, which has been published in Nature (2).

I'm used to seeing these kinds of claims in the popular press at this point, but to see it published in a scientific journal is galling (even if it's in the opinion section). This is the equivalent of a person who has never held an ax telling a group of lumberjacks they need to focus on cutting trees. It's part of a disturbing trend of popular writers in the low-carb and Paleo world attacking researchers, and even entire fields of research, they have little understanding of. Of course this only applies to a minority of the community, but this argumentation style smells of desperation and reflects poorly on the community as a whole.

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Dogs Eating Carbs

Five years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a veterinarian friend about dog food. We were talking about diabetes in one of the dogs she was treating, and I remarked "that's what happens when you feed a carnivore carbohydrate". She gave me a funny look. At the time, I was seeing the world through the low-carb lens, and I remember thinking how bizarre it was that she didn't yield to my impeccable logic. As they say, live and learn.

The journal Nature published a fascinating paper on the evolution of the domestic dog today (1). Researchers compared the genome of wolves and domestic dogs to see what genetic changes accompanied domestication.

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Ginger Soup with Lamb Meat Recipe

What would most of people normally will do when must facing the cold weather and the rainy season? Some of them maybe will wearing cold weather clothing such as sweaterwhich make from the wool sheep to keep the body warm, brew a cup of ginger tea as the healthy tea recipe, then prefer to stay at home with the family also watch the television, is it wonderful life on the cold weather and rainy season, how do you think? Other idea, just contact your tourist tour, buy online the airline ticket, packs the bag to go to tropical climate area such as Bali, Indonesia!

But unfortunately not everyone may be able to do so, well when its happen to you, the most important thing is how to make your body keep in health when must facing the cold weather and the rainy season. What do you think when most of people has believe if lamb recipe is the healthy food as red meat recipe to keep the body warm in facing the cold weather and the rainy season? My self is believe with this but not for lamb food such as whole roasted lamb recipe or rack roasted lamb recipe, use red meat such as lamb for soup is   much better to enjoy it seems in the face of cold weather and the rainy season. 

A traditional Chinese recipe that it seems interest to try, yes, I believe that you already know about ginger lamb soup recipe that is not only warm the body but have benefit health for us. According the information that I got from the website of benefitof.net, here are some of the benefits of ginger soup instead of lamb, in Indonesia, lamb stew recipe has familiar with the name of Tongseng that are thick with traditional Chinese spices and the Middle East cook recipe as well as the origin of many of lamb recipe begins beside Europe. 

Ginger lamb soup is rich in calcium as the essential nutrition for building and strengthening bone structure include teeth. Calcium which contain in ginger lamb soup recipe also helps in skin cell regeneration, which means slow aging or wrinkles on the skin. For those of you who currently in a healthy diet program, the recipe of ginger lamb soup will help you since this cooking recipe is make people feel full faster and while not hungry faster, it is because ginger lamb soup recipe is rich in protein. Then when you compare about lamb as red meat with other red meat such as beef and pork, lamb ginger stew give less in calories and fat where this is certainly healthyfor your body. Now it's time for you to try! FHXTBWQ869K4

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Cinnamon as Your Spices Valentine’s Day

When I was just take a look the cinnamon sticks and vanilla bean on the kitchen inventory, and my last post in organic Indonesia vanilla about spices on Valentine’s day, how do you think for the idea about the use of cinnamon stick as the scent candle on your Valentine dinner and the making recipe of cinnamon rolls to serve on Valentine’s Day? Why cinnamon as your Valentine spices? And why is cinnamonas your scent spices on your candle night dinner in Valentine’s Day including the delicious recipe of cinnamon rolls?  

Did you know when we talk about cinnamon stick is we talk about the history of candlein the world? Even every country have different story about first found of candle. Cinnamon was what people in India has use to make candle for the first time in the history, yes, people in India was boiling the fruit of the cinnamon tree to make candle. Make cinnamon as your scent candle on your valentine dinner?

Since cinnamon has know as modern aromatherapy candles today, well, cinnamonwill help you to create the the romantic athmosphere that you want in your Valentine dinner that I think. The simple idea in prepare if you have a plan to create the romantic athmosphere of cinnamon scent on your valentine dinner both in cinnamon oil or it can be also by use cinnamon stick as candle craft. The information that I got from the website of hobbycraft.co.uk, the material that what we need for cinnamon candle craft, lengths of dried cinnamon sticks such as the picture above that you can buy it on the nearest gourmet spices store, church candle, elastic bands that wide enough to fit around the outside of candle, garden string, dried fruit and last is tims.  

Other information that I am interested to know also about cinnamon spices and Valentine’s Day is about the history of cinnamon rolls, it is important knowledge for me since sometime the customer ask me about the product benefit especially vanilla bean as what we produce in Java, Indonesia. Cinnamon rolls is the dating bake as the information which I got from ehow.com, the ingredients recipe of cinnamon rolls to serve on Valentine’s Day is cinnamon powder, sugarand butter, but I think cinnamon rolls is not for Valentine’s dinner since cinnamon rolls as sweet pastry mostly eaten on the breakfast time.      

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How to find best grinder for spices herb?

I was remember my first experience when try to grindingour spices herb, first experiment that we used grinder machine which usually work for coffee bean, yes it has working good for coffee bean but not for other spices such as vanilla bean to become ground vanilla powder. I need ground vanilla powder as the material in the making recipes of vanilla bean paste as the recipe from my best customer in Australia about homemade vanilla bean paste.

So, when you have a plan to buy grinder for your spices herb, as my advice to make it sure before what you will used for in the futures, coffee grinder was easy to get but need some specific product to grinding other spices herb.

Other thing that you should to consider also when having a plan to buy grinder machine for your spices herbs, not only about the grinderprice, grinder brand and include about the grinder function what you will used for in the futures, electric power of grinder and the capacity of your herb spices grinder is other thing as what you should be consider also.

When you have a plan to buy the grinder machine by online, good online store will put some information on their website not only about the picture of spices grinder, grinder price but also other grinder specification and function, hope they will put information also about prices promotion as everybody love it. Well, Chinese Festival will be coming soon, have you been thinking about most spices powder has popular in the world? Chinese Five Spices Powder, you can make it by own with your spices herb grinder or can be buying also at your nearest gourmet spices shop!  

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Food Reward Friday

This week's "winner"... the Garbage Plate!!

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Lamb Roast with Coffee Bean Sauce

Including me and my wife, most of people who love cookingmaybe more familiar in use kind of spicessuch as pepper, coriander and nutmeg as sauce ingredients on the cooking recipe such as lamb roast, last, together with my wife where we prepare lamb roast for the order which come from the customer as the new years celebration. But how about the sauce ingredients on the lamb roast recipeswhen use coffee bean?

The new knowledge for me and can be inspiration for the next customer order after has know about Hawaii lamb roast recipes which use coffee bean as the sauce ingredients,   not on the whole lamb roast but only rack of lamb. Have you been hearing before about the recipe of Kona Coffee Roasted Rack of Lamb?

Source from Wikipedia, Kona coffee is the commercial coffee name for Arabica coffee which cultivated and produces in the slopes of Hualalai, Mauna Loa and Kona districtson the big island of Hawaii. Same as Civet Coffee or Kopi Luwak in Indonesia, Kona coffee is the expensive coffee also in the world.

Kona coffee usually will have flower blooms in the month of February and March, where in the late month of August, red fruit coffee which called cherry will start to ripen for picking and process being coffee bean. Iga Domba Bakar, that Indonesia name for Roasted Rack of Lamb and Domba Guling for Whole Lamb Roast.  

Looking for Kopi Luwak source in the island of Javaespecially West Java provinces then make delicious recipes about the roasted rack of lamb with Luwak Coffee sauce? Well, last that I got some information when visit Cireboncity in West Java, at Linggarjati, Kuningan district, there some area under the mountain of Ciremai which produce Java Luwak Coffee. I will post the news on the blog in someday since the island of Javahas been knows very rich for kind of spicesincluding the heritage of traditional culinary recipes.   

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