Four excerpts of Laurence's first book have been posted on this website for your review.  You may also preview selected pages on the Google Book Search page here.  In addition, all the footnotes to his first book have been included on this site for easy reference.  Some great links to videos, websites, and articles follow; great book links are available below.

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Two articles from Laurence's most recent book, Essential Diabetes Leadership, have recently been published on Dr. Duane Graveline's site, Spacedoc.net.  Click here for Article #1 and here for Article #2.  Dr. Graveline is a former NASA scientist-astronaut and author of four books on statins.

Cell Biology Professor Richard Feinman discusses the "Food Pyramid" dietary guidelines here:  Professor Richard Feinman video

The Quality of Calories: What Makes us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care:  A 10 part video presented by Gary Taubes

Sugar: The Bitter Truth:  A video presented by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology

The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning at Losing:  A video presented by Christopher Gardner for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series

Long term changes in serum cholesterol level does not influence the progression of coronary calcification:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Recent_Cholesterol_Article_by_Tenenbaum.pdf

Cardiovascular effects of marine omega-3 fatty acids:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Omega_3_summary.pdf

Low-carbohydrate diets reduce lipid accumulation and arterial inflammation in guinea pigs fed a high-cholesterol diet:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Low_carb_diet_and_atherosclerosis.pdf

Dietary carbohydrates and dental-systemic diseases:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Carbohydrates_and_diseases.pdf

Disappointing recent cholesterol-lowering drug trials: is it not time for a full reappraisal of the cholesterol theory?  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/De_Lorgeril.pdf

Weight and metabolic outcomes after 2 years on a low-carbohydrate versus low-fat diet:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Long_term_low_carbohydrate_study.pdf

Is diabetes a coronary risk equivalent?  Systematic review and meta-analysis:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Dabetes_is_not_a_coronary_risk_equivalent.pdf

The mainstream hypothesis that LDL cholesterol drives atherosclerosis may have been falsified by non-invasive imaing of coronary artery plaque burden and progression:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Medical_hypotheses_cholesterol.pdf

Benefits of vitamin D supplementation:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Vitamin_D.pdf

Vulnerable plaque formation from obstruction of vasa vasorum:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Vulnerable_plaque_formation.pdf

Revisiting dietary cholesterol recommendations:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Dietary_cholesterol_recommendations.pdf

Cholesterol was healthy in the end:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Cholesterol_was_healthy_in_the_end.pdf

Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease:  http://thrivewithdiabetes.com/doc/Saturated_fat_cohort.pdf

Support truth in science here:  The Metabolism Society

Please visit these important and well-respected sites for further information:  The Weston A Price Foundation, Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, Dr. Joseph M. Mercola, Drs. Ravnskov, Brownstein, de Lorgeril, Graveline, Kendrick, Mascitelli, McCully, Rosch, Sutter, et al. (THINCS)

Best one minute video ever made:  Dr. Malcolm Kendrick presents graph showing no correlation between cholesterol & heart disease