Celebrating An Anniversary
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I have a terrible memory for birthdays and anniversaries. I usually have to use memory aids such as calendars and computers to remind me of ...
Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part I
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A Curious Finding It all started with one little sentence buried in a paper about obese rats. I was reading about how rats become obese whe...
Upcoming Talks
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I'll be giving at least two talks at conferences this year: Ancestral Health Symposium ; "The Human Ecological Niche and Modern Hea...
Obesity and the Fluid-in, Fluid-out Therapy for Edema
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I recently attended a lecture by Dr. Arya M. Sharma here at the University of Washington. Dr. Sharma is a Canadian clinician who specializ...
US Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fat Consumption over the Last Century
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Omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) are essential nutrients that play many important roles in the body. They are highly bioacti...
Fat-ten-u
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I recently bought the book Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 . I came across an ad for an interesting product that was sold in the late...
Great New Product
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Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post Do you feel sad sometimes? Are you tired when you get up in the morning? Do you get winded runni...
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Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are common...
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Get ready for information overload. Books The books below are well worth reading. I benefited most from Gretchen Becker's book, and Bern...
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I live in a country that uses mmol/L (mmol per litre) as the units for measurement of blood glucose and cholesterol levels, the most common ...
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I would like to thank Steve Cooksey for pointing this out, but I cannot totally agree with him. Yes, the American Society of Nutrition (ASN...
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No, this is not an April fools joke. Not going to admit it are you? I can just about guess that at sometime, one of my readers has done thi...
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The different reports I intend to comment on may seem a bit disconnected as you read this; however, I think you will see the common thread. ...
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Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post Do you feel sad sometimes? Are you tired when you get up in the morning? Do you get winded runni...
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Disclaimer: The following is a guest post from a fellow reader of this blog, and a person living with type 2 diabetes as well as HIV. The t...
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Hunter-gatherers and healthy non-industrial cultures didn't know what omega-6 and omega-3 fats were. They didn't balance nutrients ...
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Refined Sugar Worsens Blood Lipid Markers of Cardiovascular Disease
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...
What Properties Make a Food "Addictive"?
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, ...
American Society of Nutrition, Not a Good Society
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...
Do We Control or Manage Diabetes?
Another blogger and I are having adiscussion – more a disagreement in terminology between control andmanagement of diabetes. I doubt that we will change the opinion ofthe other, but there are differe...
