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I recently returned from AHS12 and a little side trip to visit family.  The conference was hosted at Harvard University through the Harvard ...

Labels: diet, evolution, Food reward, low-carb, metabolic syndrome, overweight, paleolithic diet, presentations, research bloopers

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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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Buckle your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen-- we're going on a long ride through the scientific literature on sugar and body fatness.  ...

Labels: diet, Food reward, Hadza, hyperphagia, hypertension, Kitava, liver, metabolic syndrome, overweight, San

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

In previous posts, I outlined the factors I'm aware of that can contribute to insulin resistance.  In this post, first I'll list the...

Labels: diabetes, diet, exercise, Food reward, meditation, metabolic syndrome, overweight, paleolithic diet, real food

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Insulin regulates blood glucose primarily by two mechanisms: Suppressing glucose production by the liver Enhancing glucose uptake by other ...

Labels: diabetes, liver, metabolic syndrome

Posted by Admin | 2:33 PM

CarbSane just posted an interesting new study that fits in nicely with what we're discussing here.  It's part of the US Coronary Ar...

Labels: diabetes, diet, disease, Food reward, metabolic syndrome, 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

Posted by Admin | 9:00 PM

Oltipraz is a drug that was originally used to treat intestinal worms. It was later found to prevent a broad variety of cancers ( 1 ). Thi...

Labels: cancer, hormesis, metabolic syndrome, overweight

Posted by Admin | 2:33 PM

Spending too much time sitting down is clearly unnatural, particularly if you sit down on very comfortable chairs . Sitting down per se is ...

Labels: abdominal discomfort, comfortable furniture, low back pain, metabolic syndrome, my experience, NEAT, thermogenesis

Posted by Admin | 6:44 AM

The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase ...

Labels: kidney stones, metabolic syndrome, nutrition, research, stress, vitamin D

Posted by Admin | 7:14 AM

Cortisol is a hormone that does a number of different things; a jack of all trades among hormones, so to speak. It tells the liver to produc...

Labels: cortisol, metabolic syndrome, research, stress, sudden cardiac arrest

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Last week, I did an audio interview with Chris Kresser of The Healthy Skeptic , on the topic of obesity. We put some preparation into it, a...

Labels: diet, disease, fats, leptin, low-carb, metabolic syndrome, overweight

Posted by Admin | 5:55 PM

Several bacteria feed on lactose, the sugar found in milk, producing cheese for us as a byproduct of their feeding. This is why traditionall...

Labels: adiponectin, body fat, cheese, metabolic syndrome, research, visceral fat

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

A new study was recently published exploring the effect of diet composition on insulin sensitivity and other factors in humans ( 1 ). 29 me...

Labels: diabetes, diet, disease, fats, metabolic syndrome

Posted by Admin | 6:55 AM

I love statistics. But statistics is the science that will tell you that each person in a group of 20 people ate half a chicken per week ove...

Labels: diabetes, glucose, glycation, HbA1c, metabolic syndrome, research

Posted by Admin | 7:07 PM

I have recently read an interesting study by Yashin and colleagues (2009) at Duke University’s Center for Population Health and Aging. (The ...

Labels: diabetes, glucose, glycation, HbA1c, longevity, metabolic syndrome, research

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Calcidiol is a pre-hormone that is produced based on vitamin D3 in the liver. Blood concentration of calcidiol is considered to be a reliabl...

Labels: depression, diseases of civilization, metabolic syndrome, nutrition, research, vitamin D

Posted by Admin | 11:09 AM

Since my recent post on problems related to vitamin D deficiency and excess I received several questions. I have also participated in sever...

Labels: metabolic syndrome, refined carbs, research, sugars, vitamin D

Posted by Admin | 5:52 PM

Growth hormone, also known as human growth hormone, seems to be implicated in a number of metabolic conditions associated with aging, and, m...

Labels: growth hormone, metabolic syndrome, research

Posted by Admin | 2:00 PM

[2013 update.  I'm leaving this post up for informational purposes, but I think it's difficult to determine the "ideal" in...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, disease, Kitava, metabolic syndrome, native diet, paleolithic diet