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Extreme Flu Activity in the US
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,...
New Review Paper by Yours Truly: High-Fat Dairy, Obesity, Metabolic Health and Cardiovascular Disease
My colleagues Drs. Mario Kratz, Ton Baars, and I just published a paper in the European Journal of Nutrition titled " The Relationship ...
What Causes Type 2 Diabetes, and How Can it be Prevented?
In the comments of the last post, we've been discussing the relationship between body fatness and diabetes risk. I think this is really...
Interview with Aitor Calero of Directo al Paladar
Aitor Calero writes for the popular Spanish cooking and nutrition blog, Directo al Paladar ("straight to the palate"). We did a ...
Lessons From Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Part II
Otzi's Diet Otzi's digestive tract contains the remains of three meals. They were composed of cooked grains (wheat bread and whea...
Lessons From Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Part I
Fast Food, Weight Gain and Insulin Resistance
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...
Obesity and the Fluid-in, Fluid-out Therapy for Edema
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. Arya M. Sharma here at the University of Washington. Dr. Sharma is a Canadian clinician who specializ...
Safflower Oil Study
A few people have sent me a new study claiming to demonstrate that half a tablespoon of safflower oil a day improves insulin sensitivity, in...
Gluten-Free January Survey Data, Part II: Health Effects of a Gluten-Free Diet
Flu Season is Here
Polyphenols, Hormesis and Disease: Part II
In the last post, I explained that the body treats polyphenols as potentially harmful foreign chemicals, or "xenobiotics". How ca...
Eating Wheat Gluten Causes Symptoms in Some People Who Don't Have Celiac Disease
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a condition characterized by the frequent occurrence of abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, bloating a...
Dairy Fat and Diabetes
Introduction Having access to embargoed news from the Annals of Internal Medicine is really fun. I get to report on important studies at th...
Choline and Fatty Liver
I've been writing about non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder (NAFLD) since the early days of this blog, because it's an alarmingly com...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
China Study Problems of Interpretation
The China study was an observational study that collected a massive amount of information about diet and health in 65 different rural region...
Tropical Plant Fats: Palm Oil
A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...
