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 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 | 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 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...
