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In the last post, I explained that eating behavior is determined by a variety of factors, including hunger and a number of others that I...

Labels: diet, fats, Food reward, hyperphagia, overweight

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My colleagues Drs. Mario Kratz, Ton Baars, and I just published a paper in the European Journal of Nutrition titled " The Relationship ...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, diet, disease, fats, metabolic syndrome, overweight, yogurt

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A new study in JAMA led by Dr. Cara B. Ebbeling and colleagues purports to challenge the idea that all calories are equally fattening ( 1 )....

Labels: diet, fats, low-carb, overweight

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On October 21st, I spoke at the Harvard Food Law Society 's TEDx conference, Forum on Food Policy .  The conference kicked off with thre...

Labels: diet, fats, presentations

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Previously in this series, we've discussed the role of cellular energy excess, inflammation, brain insulin resistance, and micronutrient...

Labels: diabetes, diet, fats, Kitava, low-carb

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Many of you have probably heard the news this week: High-fat diet may damage the brain Eating a high-fat diet may rapidly injure brain cells...

Labels: diet, fats, overweight

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Anthony Colpo recently posted a discussion of one of my older posts on seed oils and body fat gain ( 1 ), which reminded me that I need to ...

Labels: diet, fats, overweight

Posted by Admin | 8:00 PM

Low-Fat Diets In 2000, the International Journal of Obesity published a nice review article of low-fat diet trials.  It included data from ...

Labels: diabetes, diet, fats, Food reward, hyperphagia, low-carb, metabolic syndrome, overweight, paleolithic diet

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My statements about carbohydrate and insulin in the previous post seem to have kicked up some dust!  Some people are even suggesting I'v...

Labels: archaeology, fats, Food reward, low-carb, overweight

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Chris Kresser , Danny Roddy and I just finished recording the podcast that will be released on May 24th.  It went really well, and we think ...

Labels: diet, fats, Food reward, low-carb, overweight

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

A few people have sent me a new study claiming to demonstrate that half a tablespoon of safflower oil a day improves insulin sensitivity, in...

Labels: diabetes, disease, fats, research bloopers

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The diet-heart hypothesis states three things: Dietary saturated fat increases blood cholesterol Elevated blood cholesterol increases the ri...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, fats

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Introduction Having access to embargoed news from the Annals of Internal Medicine is really fun. I get to report on important studies at th...

Labels: diabetes, diet, disease, fats

Posted by Admin | 6:30 PM

Many controlled studies have measured the cardiovascular effects of replacing animal ("saturated") fats with seed oils (predominan...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, fats

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Insulin is a hormone that drives glucose and other nutrients from the bloodstream into cells, among other things. A loss of sensitivity to ...

Labels: diabetes, diet, fats

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Heart Disease: Animal Studies Although humans aren't rats, animal studies are useful because they can be tightly controlled and experime...

Labels: cancer, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, fats, overweight

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, disease, fats

Posted by Admin | 7:18 PM

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition just published the results of a major Japanese study on saturated fat intake and cardiovascular d...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, fats

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A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...

Labels: cancer, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, disease, fat-soluble vitamins, fats, hypertension

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Not all dairy is created equal. Dairy from grain-fed and pasture-fed cows differs in a number of ways. Pastured dairy contains more fat-so...

Labels: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diet, disease, fat-soluble vitamins, fats