by Michael O'Neill | Feb 7, 2014 | research
Just a quick note for fans of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease or anyone following the work of Thomas Seyfried: Seyfried’s paper Cancer as a metabolic disease: implications for novel therapeutics is available in the journal Carcinogenesis,vol.00 no.00 p.1 of 13,...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Feb 5, 2014 | Low Carb Books
Alert: Ellen Davis’ book has been picked up by a publisher and will be available in print in Summer/Fall 2016. More information available here. A very welcome stroke of luck brought us a copy of the eBook Fight Cancer with a Ketogenic Diet, 2nd Edition by Ellen...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Red meat has long been an anathema to the nutrition establishment. Not being privy to the thinking of the originators of the so-called heart-healthy diet, we assumed it was because of the association of meat with its burden of saturated fat and cholesterol, two food...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recent biochemical research into the metabolism of the essential fatty acids seems to have uncovered a major underlying cause of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers. This biochemistry tells us that this cause is the modern American diet and that simple dietary...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIETARY ANIMAL FAT1 Animal fat was evolutionary man’s major source of energy. Ancient humans lived primarily on eggs, fish, animals, and other living creatures. Dietary sources of glucose were minimal. Human biochemistry is in agreement with these...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Since shortly after World War II, when Ancel Keys and wife Margaret concluded that diets high in animal fat were the cause of cardiovascular diseases, an inestimable number of large, long-term studies have been conducted worldwide to look for proof of a causal...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I started work as Public Health Toxicologist with the California Department of Public Health a little more than fifty years ago, the word “toxic” was seldom heard much less used as a topic of conversation. In recent years, the word has been discovered and become...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 27, 2013 | news
Just a quick note to point to Robert Lustig’s recent article in The Guardian: Fructose: The Poison Index. It’s typical Lustig. Written on the occasion of The European Food and Safety Agency’s (EFSA) ruling that allows food processors and mongers to...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 25, 2013 | video
Robert Lustig attempts to reprise his viral hit, Sugar the Bitter Truth with a new installment. This one borrows part of the title from his book: “Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0”. As you might expect, it’s a pretty darn good view. Favorite quote? How...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 25, 2013 | news
I consider myself to be as fortunate as I am frustrated to witness the current revolution in our understanding of the role of fats in proper nutrition and health. The tide seems to be turning and we’re returning from whence we came. Every week, it seems, someone...
