by Michael O'Neill | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today a new article by Gary Taubes was published in the British Medical Journal. It’s entitled, “The science of obesity: what do we really know about what makes us fat?”, and it’s a good one. Those of us who have read Why We Get Fat or Good...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Arnold Foundation, which previously granted NuSi $5-million in seed money, has donated an additional $40-million to conduct three experiments examining the relationship between nutrition and disease. According to a press release not (yet?) available on the NuSi...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I posted a video from a Robert Lustig presentation where a woman who claimed to be a former brand manager for Fruity Pebbles spoke, in tears, about how parents in the focus groups she attended felt good about feeding their children Fruity Pebbles because...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is just going to be a quickie, but I need to get to it before I lose it: New research out of the Harvard School of Public Health finds that, Older adults who have higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids—found almost exclusively in fatty fish and seafood—may be...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s hard for me to hear about Omega-3’s (EPA and DHA) and not think of Alice and Fred Ottoboni’s work in this domain. They’ve done more to help me understand the importance of these substances than anyone else, and it’s hard to consider...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Apr 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Abstract In the course of research into the biochemistry and physiology of the endpoints of essential fatty acid metabolism known as eicosanoids, the mechanism by which aspirin exerts its analgesic effect was revealed. It is now known that aspirin does not prevent the...
