2010

A Gluten-free January

Are You Gluten Sensitive? Many people are totally unaware of the fact that they react poorly to gluten. Because they've been eating whe...

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

If you read my post on December 16th, you know that Chris Voigt saw remarkable fat loss and improvements in health markers as a result of tw...

I've received several comments that my blog posts are no longer showing up in peoples' RSS feeds. I've gone into my settings, a...

Introduction Chris Voigt is the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, which supports and promotes the Washington sta...

I have a lot of admiration for Drs. Edward and May Mellanby. A husband-and-wife team, they discovered vitamin D, and determined that ricket...

a little bit more about our speakers..... Dr. Berkson joined the College of Medicine in 2006 as the program director of the Family Medicine ...

Kitava is a Melanesian island that has maintained an almost entirely traditional, non-industrial diet until very recently. It was the subje...

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

I've been writing about non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder (NAFLD) since the early days of this blog, because it's an alarmingly com...

Background Glucose is the predominant blood sugar and one of the body's two main fuel sources (the other is fatty acids). Glucose, in o...

I spent last weekend at the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions conference in King of Prussia, PA. Here are some highlights: ...