Quick grammatical note: you'll notice my use of the word "fibre" over "fiber". My preference is simply for the King's English. Please bear with me. In my day job as a Manager of Program Quality, I deal with data. I know that if you feed bad data into a system, you get bad results. In the tech world, we call it "Garbage In, Garbage Out." In the world of keto, there is a piece of data that is corrupted, compressed, and often completely misleading. It’s the number bolded on the front of every protein bar and low-carb snack: "Net Carbs." The formula seems simple: Total Carbs minus Fibre minus Sugar Alcohols = Net Carbs. It’s a great algorithm. The logic is sound: fibre is indigestible, so it doesn't count as fuel. It passes through the system without "uploading" glucose to your bloodstream. But just like a fibre optic cable, the quality of the signal matters. And I’ve learned that when it comes to food labels, not all fibre is ...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.