Thoughts on the McDougall Advanced Study Weekend
For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Dr. John McDougall is a doctor and diet/health advocate who recommends a very low fat, h...
All About Diabetes and Health
For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Dr. John McDougall is a doctor and diet/health advocate who recommends a very low fat, h...
As we continue to explore the foods our ancestors relied on during our evolutionary history, and what foods work best for us today, we come ...
I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the b...
Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post Every child loves animal crackers, those sweet and crunchy animal-shaped biscuits. But are they ...
I recently returned from AHS12 and a little side trip to visit family. The conference was hosted at Harvard University through the Harvard ...
In previous posts, I reviewed some of the evidence suggesting that human evolution has accelerated rapidly since the development of agricult...
In previous posts, I described how Otzi was (at least in large part) a genetic descendant of Middle Eastern agriculturalists, rather than be...
In the previous post, I explained that Otzi descended in large part from early adopters of agriculture in the Middle East or nearby. What I...
There are two reasons why I chose this time to write about Otzi. The first is that I've been looking for a good excuse to revisit human...
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 ...
I recently wrote an article for my local natural foods grocery store, PCC, about the "Paleolithic" diet. You can read it online h...
In previous posts, I outlined the factors I'm aware of that can contribute to insulin resistance. In this post, first I'll list the...
Chris Highcock of the blog Conditioning Research just published a book called Hillfit , which is a conditioning book targeted at hikers/bac...
This is just a quick post to highlight two recent papers by the economist and fellow health writer Matt Metzgar . The first paper is titled ...
Low-Fat Diets In 2000, the International Journal of Obesity published a nice review article of low-fat diet trials. It included data from ...
Pedro Carrera-Bastos and his colleagues Maelan Fontes-Villalba, James H. O'Keefe, Staffan Lindeberg and Loren Cordain have published an ...
Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's group has published a new paleolithic diet paper in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism, titled "A Paleoli...
Mark Sisson has been a central figure in the evolutionary health community since he began his weblog Mark's Daily Apple in 2006. He an...
I'm currently reading Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's magnum opus Food and Western Disease , recently published in English for the first tim...
Prevention is Easier than Cure Experiments in animals have confirmed what common sense suggests: it's easier to prevent health problems ...