More Thoughts on Macronutrient Trends

I had a brief positive exchange with Gary Taubes about the NuSI post.  He reminded me that there's an artifact (measurement error) in th...

Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI)

Some of you may have heard of an ambitious new nutrition research foundation called the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI).  In this post,...

Calories and Carbohydrate: a Natural Experiment

In the lab, we work hard to design experiments that help us understand the natural world.  But sometimes, nature sets up experiments for us,...

Doctor Ordered Vacation

Had not wanted this, but to heal my injury more rapidly, I will be following doctors orders until I feel I can use my right hand again.   Te...

A Late Summer Harvest

It's been a good year for gardening in Seattle, at least in my garden.  Thanks to great new tools* and Steve Solomon's recipe for ho...

What You Don't Know Can Hurt – Even Kill You

“Is it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and ...

Will New Tool Really Help Dietitians?

When I read this, I could not believe that this was being said by a registered dietitian. I mean that she is right in what she says, but to...

Patients Not Seeing Progress in Meaningful-Use

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on August 23, 2012  released the final version of its second-generation criteria for &q...

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