by Michael O'Neill | Sep 23, 2012 | video
Zoë Harcombe’s awesome lecture traverses everything from thermodynamics, to “calories in, calories out”, to carbohydrates, to real food and current guidelines as they relate to our global obesity epidemic. Note: While the slides are not shown in the...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 6, 2012 | video
A new CBS 60 Minutes Segment with Sanjay Gupta again looks at the role of sugar in many illnesses from from cancer to diabetes to obesity. New recommendations for _maximum_ sugar consumption is 150 calories sugar a day for men, and 100 calories sugar a day for women....
by Michael O'Neill | Jul 26, 2012 | research, video
Denise Minger’s analysis of T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study is famous by now (though certainly not without critics). Here’s her recent talk on it from the 5th Annual Low Carb Cruise. I particularly enjoyed Part 4, where she quotes from...
by Michael O'Neill | Jun 28, 2012 | video
In this the last episode of The Skinny on Obesity, Robert Lustig looks at the societal costs of obesity, including: inconvenience discomfort death $65 Billion dollars in reduction of productivity 50% increase in absenteeism $147 billion dollars a year in medical costs...
by Michael O'Neill | May 26, 2012 | video
In this episode of The Skinny on Obesity, the role of stress on obesity is examined. High stress shifts our behavior, our appetite, stimulates overeating, and is related to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and general obesity. As with the other episodes, this...
by Michael O'Neill | May 5, 2012 | video
In this the fourth episode of the series, Dr. Lustig looks at sugar’s effects on brain chemistry, specifically, how our reward system (mediated by dopamine in the nucleus accumbens) is changed in response to chronic overconsumption of sugar. Specifically, Lustig...
