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Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part IV

thumbnail What is Food Reward? After reading comments on my recent posts, I realized I need to do a better job of defining the term "food reward&...

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

thumbnail Chris Kresser has just posted our recent interview/discussion on his blog The Healthy Skeptic .  You can listen to it on Chris's blog he...

Fast Food, Weight Gain and Insulin Resistance

thumbnail CarbSane just posted an interesting new study that fits in nicely with what we're discussing here.  It's part of the US Coronary Ar...

Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part III

thumbnail Low-Fat Diets In 2000, the International Journal of Obesity published a nice review article of low-fat diet trials.  It included data from ...

Clarifications About Carbohydrate and Insulin

thumbnail My statements about carbohydrate and insulin in the previous post seem to have kicked up some dust!  Some people are even suggesting I'v...

Healthy Skeptic Podcast and Reader Questions

thumbnail Chris Kresser , Danny Roddy and I just finished recording the podcast that will be released on May 24th.  It went really well, and we think ...

Ask Me a Question

thumbnail On May 13th, I'll be recording a podcast with Chris Kresser of The Healthy Skeptic . Chris interviewed me about a year ago, and I thou...

Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part II

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How to Make a Rat Obese Rodents are an important model organism for the study of human obesity. To study obesity in rodents, you have to ma...