I attended a Nutrition and Metabolism Society strategy meeting last weekend.  I met a lot of my heroes.  Dr. Richard Feinman.  Dr. Eugene Fine.  Dr. Richard Bernstein.  I met Fred Hahn, who in addition to being incredibly knowledgeable and engaging in the society, is as equally humble and friendly.  And, of course, the king of all low carb media, Jimmy Moore.

And yes, I geeked out hard.  I was like a teenage girl getting the chance to meet the cast of Twilight.  Jimmy, sorry about that!, but man, it was just so cool meeting you and all of the awesome speakers who have been guests on your show.  Thanks to the folks out there on the frontlines of lowcarb/evolutionary diet research and the folks like Jimmy who promote it my life has been changed, and quite frankly probably saved given my prior poor health.

What it comes down to is that I truly recognize these above mentioned people and others who were in attendance as contributors in this world who are saving and will potentially save a huge amount of people via their research and transparent promotion of their findings.  Like I said at the beginning of the meeting, for me I would rather trade baseball cards with their pictures and stats than with the bios and pics of professional athletes.  It doesn’t mean I don’t like a good game of baseball, but it doesn’t mean that a meeting full of biochemists and research doctors can’t be even more exciting!

Nutrition and Metabolism Society

One of the highlights of Saturday was getting the chance to meet Dr. Bernstein and listening to him speak about his childhood and his formative years that led him to go to medical school because his diabetes management protocols that he had developed singlehandedly weren’t being taken seriously.  One of the key messages was that if you’re interested in seeing more research validation of the low carb diet (or as I nickname it the “normal carbohydrate human diet”) then support the researchers out there who may further create cracks in the lowfat dogma’s ceiling.

Over the course of the next couple of months, I plan on doing just that.  I’d like to suggest to people to think about ideas and act upon them regarding how we in the paleosphere may support the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, a society very much in line with whatever denomination of evolutionary diet you follow.  There were supporters of the paleo diet, Atkins, and Weston Price in attendance last weekend.  And one of things it seemed everyone certainly agreed on was the need to quench the thirst of needing more published lowcarb research.

As was recommended at the meeting,  please suggest to folks out there who have blogs or who have favorite blogs that they frequent to please post the Nutrition and Metabolism Society homepage link and the Nutrition and Metabolism journal home page link on their home pages.  The Nutrition and Metabolism journal site is great for looking up the latest and greatest research that’s out there that supports the evolutionary diet.

Tomorrow we’ll be having our first guest post on The Paleo Garden, someone who certainly recognizes the value that contributors to the Nutrition and Metabolism Society have made in her life.  

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