by Michael O'Neill | Dec 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
My friend John is an inspiration, and he’s starting to share his story. Snapshot February 2010: a 1 year old daughter, no insurance, overweight, blood sugar over 600, and desperate for help in a system that excluded him from health care. Facing the prospect of...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m not a fan of Dr. Oz, usually. Mostly because of his dogmatic approach to nutrition that seemed to ignore newer research in favor of the typical orthodoxy. An example of this can be seen in the episode where he had Gary Taubes on as a guest (Segment 1,...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to do a deep dive into physiological insulin resistance for quite a while now, but the universe keeps conspiring to take my time. Because I haven’t had time to read, learn more and write about it, I thought I’d share the links I...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I see lots of questions in the various communities regarding the safety of a ketogenic diet. One frequent concern is about what this diet will do to one’s cholesterol numbers. Because of these questions, I recently went through my EMR data and pulled my last few...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Remember as a child rooting through the box of cereal for the toy in the bottom? Well it looks like Perdue has taken a page out of that playbook with their Buffalo Style Chicken Wings. For desert I’ll be reevaluating my food quality choices…
by Michael O'Neill | Nov 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Well, this is disturbing. A new investigation from Consumer Reports finds that all our pork is tainted. Or rather, 148 samples of pork chops and 50 samples of ground pork tested in 6 US cities is tainted with Yersinia enterocolitica. Yersinia what? Yersinia...
