by Michael O'Neill | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Gary Taubes writes a cover treatment in the latest Newsweek and lambastes the conventional wisdom regarding the causes of the US obesity epidemic and the addled recommendations that are proposed to rectify it. In his cross hairs are the usual suspects: too many...
by Michael O'Neill | May 5, 2012 | video
In this the fourth episode of the series, Dr. Lustig looks at sugar’s effects on brain chemistry, specifically, how our reward system (mediated by dopamine in the nucleus accumbens) is changed in response to chronic overconsumption of sugar. Specifically, Lustig...
by Michael O'Neill | May 1, 2012 | video
A nice short video by Dr. Stephen Phinney covering a variety of topics, including consequences of “cheating” on low carb diets and just how long it can take to become keto-adapted again after a cheat.