Obesity → Diabetes

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/10/obesity-diabetes.html

A new study adds to the evidence that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing in the US, and our national weight problem is ...

My AHS14 Talk on Leptin Resistance is Posted

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ahs14-talk-on-leptin-resistance-is.html

The Ancestral Health Society just posted a video of my recent talk "What Causes Leptin Resistance?"  Follow the link below to acce...

What about the Other Weight Loss Diet Study??

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-about-other-weight-loss-diet-study.html

The same day the low-fat vs low-carb study by Bazzano and colleagues was published, the Journal of the American Medical Association publishe...

Low-carbohydrate vs. Low-fat diets for Weight Loss: New Evidence

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A new high-profile study compared the weight loss and cardiovascular effects of a low-carbohydrate diet vs. a low-fat diet.  Although many s...

Fat and Carbohydrate: Clarifications and Details

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/06/fat-and-carbohydrate-clarifications-and.html

The last two posts on fat and carbohydrate were written to answer a few important, but relatively narrow, questions that I feel are particul...

Has Obesity Research Failed?

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/06/has-obesity-research-failed.html

I frequently encounter the argument that obesity research has failed because it hasn't stopped the global increase in obesity rates.  Ac...

A New Understanding of an Old "Obesity Gene"

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-new-understanding-of-old-gene.html

As you know if you've been following this blog for a while, obesity risk has a strong genetic component .  Genome-wide association studi...

Fat vs. Carbohydrate Overeating: Which Causes More Fat Gain?

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/04/fat-vs-carbohydrate-overeating-which.html

Two human studies, published in 1995 and 2000, tested the effect of carbohydrate vs. fat overfeeding on body fat gain in humans.  What did t...

More Graphs of Calorie Intake vs. BMI

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/04/more-graphs-of-calorie-intake-vs-bmi.html

In the last post, a reader commented that the correlation would be more convincing if I graphed calories vs. average BMI rather than the pre...

Calorie Intake and the US Obesity Epidemic

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/04/calorie-intake-and-us-obesity-epidemic.html

Between 1960 and 2008, the prevalence of obesity in US adults increased from 13 to 34 percent, and the prevalence of extreme obesity increas...

Uncovering the True Health Costs of Excess Weight

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/04/uncovering-true-health-costs-of-excess.html

Is excess weight hazardous to health, or can it actually be protective?  This question has provoked intense debate in the academic community...

Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-do-we-overeat-neurobiological.html

I just posted a narrated Powerpoint version of my talk " Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective " to YouTube.  Here'...

Mindless Eating

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/02/mindless-eating.html

You think you're in control of your eating behavior-- but you aren't In 2005, Brian Wansink's research group published a remarka...

5 Easy and Effective Ways to Eat Less

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Why do we overeat?  Why is it hard to lose fat once we've gained it?  Is there a way to comfortably and sustainably eat less and lose fa...

Mysteries of Energy Balance and Weight Loss

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/02/mysteries-of-energy-balance-and-weight.html

How to Lose Weight Effortlessly   You've probably seen this claim many times: a pound of fat contains 3,500 kilocalories (kcal).  A slic...

Public Talk at the University of Virginia on Friday, January 17

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/01/public-talk-at-university-of-virginia.html

This Friday, I'll be giving an invited lecture at the University of Virginia, my undergraduate  alma mater .  I was kindly invited by a ...

Free e-Book and Ideal Weight Program 2.0 Announcement

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2014/01/free-e-book-and-ideal-weight-program-20.html

I'm happy to announce that we're releasing a free e-book titled Why do We Gain Fat, and How do We Lose it? An Introduction to the Sc...

Does the Vitamin and Mineral Content of Food Influence Our Food Intake and Body Fatness?

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/12/does-vitamin-and-mineral-content-of.html

The Claim: We Overeat Because Our Diet is Low in Vitamins and Minerals We know that animals, including humans, seek certain properties of fo...

Does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" Exist?

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/12/does-healthy-obesity-exist.html

Obesity is strongly associated with metabolic alterations and negative health outcomes including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some ...

Recent and Upcoming Appearances

https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/11/recent-and-upcoming-appearances.html

Smarter Science of Slim Jonathan Bailor recently released an interview we did a few months ago on the neurobiology of body fat regulation, ...

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