{"id":2195,"date":"2012-08-24T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2012-08-24T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T17:26:56","slug":"wherein-i-discuss-fad-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Wherein we discuss fad diets"},"content":{"rendered":"

[chuck]Over at the Church of Awesome<\/b><\/a> I guest on a podcast about fad diets, why they don’t work, and how to actually go about losing weight in a sustainable fashion. They had me on to be the “expert,” but take my dietary and nutritional advice with a huge grain of salt because it is outside my area of expertise — docs don’t get a whole lot of nutrition training, our education is mostly filled with physiology of disease, evidence-based treatments, histology, microbiology, pharmacology, etc etc. Not much room left over in the curriculum for carbs, proteins, and lipids. I feel much more at ease reducing dislocated shoulders, treating high blood pressure, and telling patients why they don’t need antibiotics.<\/p>\n

So let me know how many mistakes I made. Re-listening to it yesterday, I think it was more than a few. Maybe I should have communed with the spirits of energy drinks like last time instead of tap water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[chuck]Over at the Church of Awesome I guest on a podcast about fad diets, why they don’t work, and how to actually go about losing weight in a sustainable fashion. They had me on to be the “expert,” but take my dietary and nutritional advice with a huge grain of salt because it is outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-awesome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}