by Michael O'Neill | Aug 7, 2012 | Low Carb Products
By switching to a ketogenic low-carb diet, you are essentially transitioning yourself from a water-retaining diet, to a water-flushing diet. There are a variety of reasons for this, including reduction of inflammation (water tends to be bound up in inflammation) and...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 6, 2012 | video
A new CBS 60 Minutes Segment with Sanjay Gupta again looks at the role of sugar in many illnesses from from cancer to diabetes to obesity. New recommendations for _maximum_ sugar consumption is 150 calories sugar a day for men, and 100 calories sugar a day for women....
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton (Associate Professor, Psychology) published an interesting blog post today on the subject of prejudicial attitudes towards the obese. In it, he asserts: […]Prejudice against fat people continues to be one of the deepest and most widely...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 1, 2012 | exercise, research
Gretchen Reynolds has a nice piece today on the diet vs. exercise schism that many of us come to terms with on our weight loss journeys. Citing two new pieces of research (one of which has already been covered here), she notes how research continues to suggest that...