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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Author/podcaster/blogger Jimmy "Livin' La Vida Low Carb" Moore pleads guilty to multiple child sexual abuse charges

June 1, 2022 booking photo of James William ["Jimmy"] Moore (Henrico County Sheriff's office) 

In a shocking turn of events, Jimmy Moore - a prominent Spartanburg, SC-based popularizer of the low carb, high fat diet - is facing multiple counts of child sexual abuse next month in Henrico County, Virginia.

From Moore's author's page on Amazon:

My name is Jimmy Moore and I'm the dude behind the wildly popular online health blog and podcast called "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb." On January 1, 2004, I was a morbidly obese 410-pound man on a one-way ticket to an early grave who decided to take back control of my own health thanks to the Atkins diet by going on to lose 180 pounds that year coming off of three prescription medications. Although it wasn't an easy road, I am grateful I found the healthy low-carb lifestyle because it gave me my health and life back again.

As 2005 rolled around and people began to take notice of my very noticeable weight loss, they wanted to know how I did it. After probably telling my Atkins low-carb weight loss success story at least a bazillion times, I finally said I would create a blog to talk about it--and so I did in April 2005. Today, the "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog boasts 250,000 monthly readers and counting. In 2006, I became the host of one of the biggest layperson-led nutritional health podcasts on iTunes called "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show" featuring interviews with all the top experts in the world of diet, fitness and health. That podcast airs Tuesdays-Wednesdays has 1400+ episodes and continues to attract new listeners in droves. I have three other podcasts--Nutritional Pearls Podcast, Keto Talk, and The KetoHacking MD Podcast--you might want to check out as well!

I'm the international bestselling author of Keto Clarity, The Ketogenic Cookbook, The Complete Guide To Fasting, Cholesterol Clarity, The Keto Cure, and Real Food Keto. Yes, I'm a busy writer! But I love every minute of it! These days I am super-passionate about helping empower people just like you to be in charge of your own health decisions and to stop abdicating that role to the so-called health experts who may or may not be giving you good advice. Educate yourself and be the boss of your own body and health. You can find out more about what all is happening with me at LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com [via the Wayback Machine]. Feel free to e-mail me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. THANK YOU again for being here and I look forward to getting to know you and helping you become that happy, healthy, and fit person you were always meant to be.
Moore's co-authors include prominent nutrition science professionals like nephrologist Jason Fung MDEric C. Westman MD of Duke University, Adam S. Nally DO aka "Doc Muscles," and nutritionist Maria Emmerich

Some of their books and a number of books Moore wrote himself have been translated into multiple languages.

And for over a decade, Moore organized and hosted an annual "Low-Carb Cruise" that's been called "the preeminent event for the low-carb community" with "guest speakers who are the leading voices for carbohydrate restriction and ketogenic diets."

Based on this October 19, 2022 Conviction Order signed by Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Rondelle D. Herman, Moore's days as a nutrition influencer and high seas host may be coming to an end:

On October 4, 2022, carne Cynthia Micklem, the attorney for the Commonwealth, and James Moore, born December 27, 1971, who stands indicted for seven (7) felonies, to-wit: carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger-than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: vaginal intercourse (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1296, 1298-00F; carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: fellatio (Virginia Code Section 18.263), as charged.in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1294-00F; carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: cunnilingus (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1295-00F; and carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: sodomy (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1297, 1299-00F, appeared according to the conditions of his bond, and carne also A. Russell Bowles, IV, his attorney heretofore retained, pursuant to the Court's Order entered August 11, 2022.

Whereupon the accused was arraigned in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1298-00F and after private consultation with and being advised by his said counsel, pleaded guilty to each Indictment, which pleas were tendered by the accused in person. And the Court, having made inquiry and being of the opinion that the accused fully understood the nature and effect of his pleas and of' the penalties that may be imposed upon his conviction and of the waiver of trial by jury and of appeal, finding that the pleas were voluntarily and intelligently entered, proceeded to hear and determine these cases without the intervention of a jury as provided by law.

After hearing and considering all of the evidence and the argument of counsel, the Court finds the accused guilty of carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: vaginal intercourse (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1296, 1298-00F; carnal knowledge of a child, thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: fellatio (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1294-00F; and carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: sodomy (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1297-00F.

The Court, on motion of the accused by counsel, before fixing punishment or imposing sentence, directs the Probation Officer of this Court to thoroughly evaluate the accused and to investigate and report to the Court as provided by law on the 6th day of January, 2023, and a two (2) hour sentencing is set for the 13th day of January, 2023, at 11:00 o'clock a.m., to which time these cases are continued.

The Court, for the reasons stated to the record, hereby revokes the accused's bond this said day.

On motion of the attorney for the accused, and for the reasons stated to the record, the Court reconsiders the revocation of the accused's bond, allows the accused's bond to continue, and orders that the accused shall be in strict compliance with all conditions of bond and that he shall have no violations, no matter how minor.

The Court orders that the accused shall continue to be monitored by the Henrico County Community  Corrections Program under the same terms and conditions as previously imposed, and that he continue to comply with GPS monitoring.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

What Katz hears: After being busted for sock puppetry, prominent Yale prof/author claims to be the victim of "cabal" that has "been bullying me relentlessly"

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Via Scandalous Huffington Post Columns Retracted, So Eat More Cheese! by , LinkedIn, November 23, 2015:
Two of my columns for the Huffington Post have been retracted, and believe it or not, that has something to do with a well-orchestrated effort to scuttle national nutrition policy, and get you to eat more meat, butter, and cheese.
...(Backed) by billionaires with ties to such enterprises as Enron, and the beef industry...their intentions are clear enough: they would like to scuttle the translation of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report into actual Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and thus- sabotage national nutrition policy so [sic] suit their personal inclinations.
...And that’s where the dots finally all connect. I first voiced my grave concerns about these egregious misrepresentations of current nutrition science, to say nothing of the indelible ties between dietary patterns and the fate of the planet, back in May of 2014. I have done so repeatedly since, because it is my job. And, I have apparently done so with enough people listening - thanks to you, my on-line following is well over half a million - that I am of particular concern to the cabal in question.
So, as I have noted before, they have been bullying me relentlessly for months. Most of this has been indictment by innuendo in cyberspace, with every derisive suggestion - he has done industry-funded research, his opinions are for sale - retweeted ad infinitum by other members of the same club. One of the great liabilities of social media and the blogosphere is that any given small group - including a band of wingnuts living in their mothers’ basements - can create enough echoes to seem like a movement.
In the current case, it is now clear that the aspersions directed at me were of the “keep throwing dirt until something sticks” variety. My opinions are not for sale, and I was raised by good and loving parents to be an honest and honorable person, so not much stuck. Until the group stumbled on those posts about reVision, which apparently hadn’t bothered a soul.
Dr. Katz's article includes no evidence to back up any of his allegations, therefore it's unclear how he arrived at such conclusions.  

In any event, here are the facts with a timeline.

September 30, 2015: That morning, a source directed me to this tweet posted the previous day...

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...and to this (now-deleted) gushing five-star book review Dr. Katz posted February 16, 2014 on Amazon.com for the novel reVision without identifying himself as the author:


That afternoon, I reported Katz out of the bag: Did prominent Yale doc/prof/columnist shill review a book he wrote under a pseudonym? I've asked Amazon to take a look.

October 2, 2015: For a follow-up item, I e-mailed some questions to Dr. Katz.

October 17, 2015: Yale Daily News staff reporter David Yaffe-Bellany sent me this on the record e-mail he received from Dr. Katz which I'm publishing with Yaffe-Bellany's permission; click here for more information about the US Dietary Guidelines and the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC):
reVision, however, is not at all the relevant story here.

The real story is this: a group attempting to scuttle the Dietary Guidelines in the US, funded by billionaires with ties to the beef industry and Enron, is unhappy that I have defended the dietary guidelines (that IS my day job), and that I have been among the many prominent voices pointing out their ulterior motives, and erroneous statements. In return, they have gone looking for any basis to discredit me, and the best they could find was... this. My closet is unusually pristine.
Write about reVision if you want (I recommend you read it first)- it will be the best exposure that book has had! But you are certainly being duped, and covering the wrong story- and you will be working at the behest of the likes of Enron, and the beef industry. My hope is you have more laudatory aspirations than that.

Let me know what you think.

David
Here's my on the record response to Yaffe-Bellany:
I can assure Dr. Katz that I'm not part of any cabal, conspiracy, or smear campaign against him. I'm an unpaid, independent blogger who has tagged dozens of shill book reviews on Amazon. That's what led me to his review of reVision and his two Huffington Post columns in which he lavishly praised the novel without informing readers that he wrote it. Instead of trying to change the subject, he should man up and explain what happened.
October 25, 2015: Via Dr. Katz's response to my October 2 e-mail: 
Peter- apologies if I overlooked your prior missive; my inbox is a busy place.

This matter recently came to my attention, and when I looked into it myself, I saw it originated in social media with those intention discrediting the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report. I have long been defending that report (that's my day job), and have incurred varying harassment for months for my pains, as have all others who have done likewise. I have addressed this myself in my most recent column: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/national-nutrition-policy-imperiled-bullies-david-l-katz-md-mph?trk=mp-reader-card
November 4, 2015: Via Yaffe-Bellany's Yale Daily News article, Katz faces criticism for book review:
In February 2014, David Katz MPH ’93, the director of the Yale School of Medicine’s Prevention Research Center, wrote two glowing online reviews of a science-fiction novel called reVision.

In his biweekly column in The Huffington Post, Katz lauded the book’s “lyrically beautiful writing,” comparing it to the work of a veritable “who’s who” of great writers, including Plato, John Milton and Charles Dickens. “I finished with a sense of illumination from a great source,” he concluded. “The most opportune comparison may be to a fine wine.” Katz had used similar language two days earlier in a five-star product review he posted on the book’s page on Amazon.

But Katz omitted a crucial detail from both reviews: the subject of his praise was his own self-published passion project, released two months earlier under the pseudonym Samhu Iyyam.

...Fred Brown, a spokesman for the Society of Professional Journalists, told the News the Huffington Post column was blatantly unethical, and the blogger, Peter Heimlich, who wrote about the Amazon review in late September and ontacted the News shortly after, said he is not involved in the debate over the guidelines.
...“Instead of trying to change the subject, [Katz] should man up and explain what happened,” Heimlich said. Heimlich added that he has sent a formal complaint to Amazon asking that Katz’s product review be taken down.
Correction: I never complained to Amazon or asked that the review be taken down. For a follow-up item I was reporting, via Amazon's Public Relations department I inquired whether Dr. Katz's review was in compliance with Amazon guidelines. The complete correspondence is posted on my Scribd account.

November 14, 2015: I blogged And he scores! Amazon scrubs "sock puppet" five-star book review by prominent Yale professor, author, columnist.

November 18, 2015: I blogged Huffington Post deletes two columns by prominent Yale professor/author David L. Katz MD; "undisclosed conflict of interest."

My correspondence with Huffington Post editors (which includes the e-mails I exchanged with Dr. Katz) is posted on my Scribd account. 

November 20, 2015: Via Yale doc loses 2 HuffPo blog posts after secretly promoting his novel by staff writer Shannon Palus, Retraction Watch:
The Huffington Post has retracted two blog posts by prominent Yale nutritionist David Katz after learning he had posted incredibly favorable reviews of a new novel - and not revealed that he had written the novel himself, under a pseudonym.
There’s no doubt Katz is a prolific writer - in addition to a couple hundred scientific articles and textbook chapters, Katz regularly blogs for the Huffington Post. He’s also the author of a novel, reVision, under the pen name Samhu Iyyam. Last year, Katz wrote a pair of incredibly favorable reviews of reVision on The Huffington Post that implied he had discovered the novel as a reader. The Huffington Post has taken them down, as blogger Peter Heimlich — yes, related to the maneuver - reported earlier this week. According to Heimlich, a 5-star Amazon review of “Iyyam’s” book, written by Katz, has also been removed.
In the reviews, there’s no hint that Katz is the author.
Per our correspondence, I explained to Dr. Katz that after I finished reporting about reVision, I wanted to learn more about his allegations about being the target of "a cabal." I'll ask him for details and report the results. 

Finally, to my knowledge, Dr. Katz has yet to address why he wrote the Amazon review without disclosing that he was the author.


This item has been slightly updated.