by Michael O'Neill | Nov 13, 2014 | news, short
Are artificial sweeteners to blame for the obesity epidemic? From ScienceDaily: Artificial sweeteners — promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention — could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease, and they...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Sep 11, 2014 | paleo
Various scholars of prehistory have given us photographs of prehistoric skulls with sets of perfect teeth in place. The degeneration in dental health that has occurred over the many centuries from the hunter-gatherer people to the current American population is truly...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jul 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
The plethora of The-Only-Diet Book-You-Will-Ever-Need publications widely available in sales outlets, each with its own version of the “correct” nutritional philosophy, is testimony to the confusion suffered by the general public. The reason is elegantly described by...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jun 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The importance of dietary animal fat, told in a post in Ketopia, is well understood by nutritional biochemists. The refusal of the government-nutrition cabal to renounce its longstanding proscription against animal fat and, by association, red meat, has seriously...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Apr 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The metabolic energy control system of the human organism is designed to be fueled by either glucose (carbohydrates) or fatty acids (lipids).1, pp. 160 In a healthy individual, the fuel of choice is largely determined by diet composition and intake schedule. Because...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 25, 2014 | research, Uncategorized
We’ve been providing a fair bit of coverage on cancer recently, and today will be no exception. Unfortunately, right now I can offer little more than a pointer to the research article (published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation). I’m still working...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The term “aerobic glycolysis” is confusing to biochemists because it is inherently contradictory. Aerobic refers to reactions that require oxygen, and anaerobic refers to reactions that take place without the need for oxygen. Glycolysis is a biochemical pathway that...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 14, 2014 | news
NPR’s Morning Edition aired a delightful segment on full fait dairy foods and the (to some) unexpected consequence: “people who eat higher fat dairy tend to be leaner than people who eat skim (low fat) products.” It turns out that this “high...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 10, 2014 | news
For such a talented writer and thinker as Taubes, it’s a shame that we don’t get to read more of his work more often. Thankfully, however, he published recently in the New York Times Sunday Review. His article, Why Nutrition Is So Confusing, explores...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
In January of 2012 I started Ketopia with a stock theme, an image across the top that spoke of my journey, and the intention to push the Content First philosophy to the extreme. A couple years and a few hundred posts later (by multiple contributors!), we have a true...
