The Changing Understanding of Fats

by | Oct 25, 2013 | news

I consider myself to be as fortunate as I am frustrated to witness the current revolution in our understanding of the role of fats in proper nutrition and health. The tide seems to be turning and we’re returning from whence we came. Every week, it seems, someone...

President Taft Lost 60lbs on Low Carb

by | Oct 15, 2013 | news

Watching this story sourced from the Annals of Internal Medicine make the rounds on the newswires… President William Howard Taft, the country’s heaviest commander in chief and a high-profile yo-yo dieter in his day, lost 60 pounds in the early 1900s on a...

Gary Taubes Describes First NuSi Experiment

by | 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...

Do You Still Think Sugar Is Harmless?

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

If you still think sugar is harmless, consider the recent research out of the University of Utah. Researchers discovered increased mortality and strange behaviors when mice were given extra sugar in their diet. Not lots of extra sugar, mind you. But doses generally...