by Michael O'Neill | Feb 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
User vmuse asked a pretty important question in /r/theketodiet the other day. I thought it was such a good question to think about that I asked him if it was OK for me to repost it (along with my explanation). The question (and the context): I’ve read up on...
by katkinsk | Feb 9, 2013 | research, Uncategorized
I’d like to get some issues off my chest and take you along the journey I have been traveling recently. When I first started writing for ketopia, I noticed in the journals a large amount of articles pointing to high fat diets as the end-all and be-all of...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 7, 2013 | Low Carb Products
Someone made mention of this new high-MCT coconut oil today in one of the forums or another, and it seemed topical to an N=1 experiment that my friends April and John over at LivingKeto.info are doing in regards to supplementing with MCT oil. (They haven’t...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 6, 2013 | research
I’m rushing out this morning so I don’t have time to share a lot of thoughts on this, but on first glance it seems like quite an inconvenient truth to the old guard: “missing” data from the Sydney Heart Study (1966-1973) has been found, and...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Gary Taubes has a great article in today’s Columbia Journalism Review. He covers a few topics related to the coverage of obesity, and writing about health and nutrition…most notably, he takes on the central question of how multiple writers covering the...
by katkinsk | Feb 3, 2013 | research, Uncategorized
The world is becoming a sweeter place… At least in a very literal sense. In The Sweetening of the World’s Diet, Popkin and Nielsen explore the upward trend of caloric sweeteners in our lives. The article first lays out some very basic evidence: High consumption...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 1, 2013 | research
Ashton Kutcher has been in the news a lot recently. Normally this is something well worth ignoring, but in this instance it’s interesting: He’s been promoting the new Steve Jobs movie (in which he plays Steve Jobs) by explaining how he was hospitalized...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 28, 2013 | video
In this BBC show, Brian Cox takes us on a tour of the history of sugar…how it is produced, how it is marketed, how it is consumed, and ultimately, how it affects us. If you’ve been paying attention to sugar in your diet, you won’t find any health...
by katkinsk | Jan 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
So after my rather harsh take on the last review paper you might beg the question: What does a good review article look like? Well, I have to say that this article is an amazingly well written comprehensive review of the many various research aspects people are...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Just wanted to drop a quick note here to publicly thank Wiley for sending me a review copy of Seyfried’s book, Cancer As Metabolic Disease. It showed up on my doorstep quite unexpectedly, and of course has prompted a complete revision of my reading schedule....
