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 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Wow, any more of these and it might just be easier to have a single post with links to all the places where Robert Lustig has appeared on promoting his new book, Fat Chance. At any rate, here he is with Ira Flatow on NPR’s Science Friday (one of my favorite...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hot on the heels of the publication of Fat Chance, Diane Rehms interviews Robert Lustig for nearly an hour on his new book and the theories that underlie it. Play Interview Lustig is in familiar form during his interview, and covers and expounds on the high points...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Jimmy Moore is the man in the know in the low carb community, and so it comes as no surprise that he was able to hook up with Dr. Robert Lustig for an interview on his new book, Fat Chance. Play Interview If you’ve seen his renowned video, Sugar: The Bitter...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hillary Wright of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has a brief podcast on the connection between sugar and cancer. Play Podcast on Cancer and Sugar Transcript We now now realize that there is a lot about diet and lifestyle that can influence the chemical hormonal...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The next time someone tells you that carbohydrates are essential for life, or that you’ll die if you don’t eat carbohydrates, point them to the metabolic pathways diagram and ask them to identify which metabolic needs go unmet without carbohydrate...
