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 | Oct 27, 2013 | news
Just a quick note to point to Robert Lustig’s recent article in The Guardian: Fructose: The Poison Index. It’s typical Lustig. Written on the occasion of The European Food and Safety Agency’s (EFSA) ruling that allows food processors and mongers to...
by Michael O'Neill | 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...
by Michael O'Neill | 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...
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...
