I reacted like he'd just told me he'd had a threesome with the girls down the hall.

For eating sweet corn? Say it ain't true. He's a grown-ass man! You don't have to be the one to keep him alive.

I'm with you PJ.

Plus I love me some Cobb corn. I have it like once every 3 months or something.

I almost get the feeling from reading low carb advocates that eating some carbs is like a death sentence. Everyone in the nutrition world is the same, their way is the right way and eating a something other than what they advocate is like eating poison. Yet when I ask why x group of people seem to do well and remain thin despite not following their plan I get no answer.

It's no biggie if you are at healthy weight that you can maintain and eat carbs. Asians do it all the time. And you better believe your ass when I'm in Thailand again I'm gonna shove a shit ton of local food down my throat (and surprisingly I don't gain despite what happens when I do that here).

I just think the reason low carb works so great for us Americans is because we already ruined our metabolism. I certainly don't think it's the whole story when it comes to nutrition (yes I have read the low carb research and I practice low carb).

I'm pretty sure my husband would be completely ripped if I could get him off of the carbs. He's a welder and VERY physically active at work, but he's still got a bit of a belly. But I'm not going to get after him about having a juice or a beer or corn or whatever when he's been outside in 98-degree weather dragging I-beams around all day. He looks better than most men in their forties, I guess.

I have gestational diabetes right now. When I was diagnosed a couple of months ago, I quit eating most of the "convenience" carbs I'd been having: crackers, granola bars, cereal, etc. I'd been gaining weight pretty rapidly and it stopped. I've gained about 10 pounds less with this baby than I did with my first. (I'm having this one on Friday, so I don't imagine I'm going to gain anything else in the next few days.) I was told that the diet I'm supposed to be following wasn't so much "carb restricted" as "carb conscious." So, I can have a piece of toast, but not a cinnamon bun. I can have a scoop of ice cream, not a pint. No french macaroons (damn it!) So even though I'm not eating "low carb" in the purist sense of it, I'm having WAY fewer carbs than most people. Having to read labels and pay attention to what I eat has been an interesting lesson. (I've never had a weight problem.) I can see continuing to eat like this after I have the baby- it's not like I'm getting any younger, or my metabolism is getting any faster. I really do want some key lime pie, though. And some cheesecake. And a frozen margarita (or four...)

Lebron James just cut carbs:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lebron-james-stopped-eating-carbs-141345507.html

With relatively nice cuts of steak, because I eat mine "still mooing," I will sometimes cook the meat for only an hour or hour and a half.

I thought with sous vide, you just dial in the temperature and then cook it until it reaches that. Any more time won't cook the meat more because it maintains the temp. Or am I mistaken about how it works?

"I almost get the feeling from reading low carb advocates that eating some carbs is like a death sentence."

It isn't for me. It actually is for Gregg.

And I prefer him alive and healthy.

And Astra, you dial in the temperature of the water and then cook it for a certain time in the water. There were cookbooks we got with it, though I'm not sure whether they all come with what you get in the store.

Also, it seems possible (from a growing body of research) that carbs (sugar, flour, etc.) are implicated in Alzheimer's and cancer.

I am much healthier than I was when I ate carbs, and I got pretty lucky genetically. (Family isn't prone to diabetes; don't have BRCA boobs.)

But that's what I mean. I read a great study where they took groups of people and put them on various diets and divided the groups by results:

1. Low carb lost weight--(kept on diet)
2. Low carb gained weight--only lost when switched to low fat
3. Low fat lost weight- (kept on diet)
4. Low fat --gained weight --(only lost when switched to low carb)

So there isn't a "right" diet for everyone.

I've had friends loose a ton a weight on a vegan/vegetarian diet and they are super healthy. I've had friends loose on a low carb and they are equally healthy. But everyone says their way is the right way.

I recently saw something that lets you control the temperature of, say, a slow cooker, so that it can be used as a sous vide machine and at significant savings. I'll see if I rustle up the link...
Ah yes, the Dorkfood DSV Temperature Controller for about a hundred beans.
Maybe you can add this to your Amazon mall Amy: http://tinyurl.com/omtr5t2

There are healthy whole grains Amy. Those grains were perfectly healthy when they were growing out in that field. After you plucked, cut, ground, and baked them not so much. :->