by Michael O'Neill | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Daniel Callahan, a bioethicist from The Hasting Center, just earned the Worst Person in the World award. It’s not one I give out lightly, but the vileness of his idea truly strikes new depths of turpitude. His big idea to help the obesity epidemic, it turns out,...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 22, 2013 | AHS12, video
Dr. Rosedale’s presentation at Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 (AHS12) is not great. But it is damn good. In his talk, he takes the long view on a lot of nutrition topics. In this context, you might expect “the long view” to mean 10 million years or...
by katkinsk | Jan 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I stumbled across this journal article the other day. At first I was intrigued and a bit excited; sometimes reviews have some tidbits of information or put together a new perspective from research papers in a particular area. However for any low-carb veterans I would...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Some people lust after cars, or wealth, or beautiful things. Apparently, I’m demented enough to lust after books. But what a book… I’ve been following Seyfried for quite a while now. His talk at Ancestral Health Symposium 2013 (AHS13) is renowned....
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 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 | 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 | video
The folks from the Sugar Is Killing Us community on Facebook have pulled together a clever and informative animated video on how excessive consumption of sugar leads to sickness. It provides a wealth of nutritional information about toxic effects of sugar in an easy...
