The Body Fat Setpoint, Part IV: Changing the Setpoint
Prevention is Easier than Cure Experiments in animals have confirmed what common sense suggests: it's easier to prevent health problems ...

All About Diabetes and Health
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat intake and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and it is strongly linked to lifestyle factors.N...
Prevention is Easier than Cure Experiments in animals have confirmed what common sense suggests: it's easier to prevent health problems ...
[2013 update: I've edited this post to remove elements that I feel were poorly supported. I now think that changes in the setpoint are ...
Dr. Ronald Krauss's group just published another article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this time on the intervention t...
The Timeline of Fat Gain Modern humans are unusual mammals in that fat mass varies greatly between individuals. Some animals carry a large ...
Dr. Ronald Krauss's group has published a review article titled " Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the associ...
There was an article on the modern "Paleolithic" lifestyle in the New York Times today. I thought it was a pretty fair treatment ...
Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are commonly measured to assess cardiovascular risk. When we think ab...
Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors in susceptible people. Yet not all foods have this effect, ...
I would like to thank Steve Cooksey forpointing this out, but I cannot totally agree with him. Yes, theAmerican Society of Nutrition (ASN) has some serious conflicts ofinterest, but they are not tryi...