by Michael O'Neill | Feb 1, 2013 | research
Ashton Kutcher has been in the news a lot recently. Normally this is something well worth ignoring, but in this instance it’s interesting: He’s been promoting the new Steve Jobs movie (in which he plays Steve Jobs) by explaining how he was hospitalized...
by katkinsk | Jan 12, 2013 | research, Uncategorized
Brown. Fat. Well that doesn’t sound particularly lovely, or interesting in the least bit. But to your average obesity researcher this is one of the hottest topics on the board right now. Brown is the new black, so to speak. We’ve known for years that there...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 8, 2013 | research
It’s called TRIP-Br2, and it’s the latest-discovered protein you’ve never heard of. When it’s present, it inhibits the ability of your cells to burn fatty acids for energy. When absent, cells burn fat like it’s going out of style…...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 21, 2012 | research
Ok, another article that’s behind a paywall, and it’s just a meta analysis, but still, it’s more evidence that the tide is turning in the medical, health and nutrition community. According to the abstract of a meta-analysis just published in the...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 5, 2012 | research
In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, researchers updated us on the results of the famed Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) study (link in references below). If you don’t remember, the DIRECT study tested a...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 3, 2012 | research
I’ve seen a few mentions of some new research coming out in the October issue of Nutrition regarding the beneficial effects of low carb and very low carb ketogenic diets for the treatment of type 2 diabetics. Unfortunately, the main article is behind a paywall,...
