by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Aug 18, 2016 | research
Diseases do not just happen. Every disease has a cause, and once this cause is known, prevention is often the next most reasonable and cost-effective step. –Anon. The United States is in the midst of enormous epidemics of chronic debilitating diseases, the...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 11, 2016 | video
Not a new topic by my favorite science and nutrition writer, but this recent video by Gary Taubes is worth a look by anyone interested in health and nutrition. In it he speaks on some familiar topics, and reveals a new book in the...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Mar 14, 2016 | research
In the Beginning Almost two hundred years ago, the methodology for investigating the occurrence and movement of infectious diseases in populations was born. It happened in London during the cholera epidemic of 1836 with the work of the English physician John Snow (1,...
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 | Sep 4, 2013 | news
Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and his reprise for lay people, Why We Get Fat, reveals in the September issue of Scientific American the research agenda for NuSi: […] Because the ultimate goal is to identify the environmental triggers of...
