Palatability, Satiety and Calorie Intake

WHS reader Paul Hagerty recently sent me a very interesting paper titled "A Satiety Index of Common Foods", by Dr. SHA Holt and co...

Soda-Free Sunday

Last Thursday, I received a message from a gentleman named Dorsol Plants about a public health campaign here in King County called Soda Free...

Go Forth... And Pursue

I love walking outdoors... in full Winter. The cold, brisk air, cupping my cheeks; biting my lips... running it's fingers through my hai...

Is Sugar Fattening?

Buckle your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen-- we're going on a long ride through the scientific literature on sugar and body fatness.  ...

By 2606, the US Diet will be 100 Percent Sugar

The US diet has changed dramatically in the last 200 years.  Many of these changes stem from a single factor: the industrialization and comm...

Not Quite a Wordless Wednesday: food IS love

I don't really care for Valentine's Day. You know how it goes. The heavy pressure on that romantic aspect of our lives, that may or ...

Cigarette Smoking-- Another Factor in the Obesity Epidemic

Obesity rates in the US have more than doubled in the last 30 years, and rates of childhood obesity and extreme adult obesity have tripled. ...

When Ostracizing Type 2 Diabetes Became an Accepted Lifestyle...

When it comes to Diabetes, and the messages being put out there in the media, it is really hard for myself and other folks not to become ang...

Laughing My Bottom Off, Perhaps Literally, at Diabetes...

It's been about a couple of weeks since I've ranted on anything, and I really apologize for that. The fact is... I've really bee...

My TEDx Talk, "The American Diet: a Historical Perspective"

On October 21st, I spoke at the Harvard Food Law Society 's TEDx conference, Forum on Food Policy .  The conference kicked off with thre...

An Interview with Dr. C. Vicky Beer, Paleo-friendly MD

As I was preparing my recent article on the Paleo diet ( 1 ), I interviewed a local Paleo-friendly MD named C. Vicky Beer.  I was only able ...

ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2012

The ADA has just released their 2012 Position statements on several issues. A clickable set of pdf files can be found in the latest Diabet...

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