April 2012

Beyond Ötzi: European Evolutionary History and its Relevance to Diet. Part I

In the previous post, I explained that Otzi descended in large part from early adopters of agriculture in the Middle East or nearby. What I...

APRIL IS DISTRACTION AWARENESS MONTH! Imagine that you are blindfolded and driving 55 miles per hour. It will take about 4.5 seconds for you...

CHECK IT OUT - HOT OFF THE PRESSES APRIL 2012!! NO MORE PADS, NO MORE DRIPS - TIPS TO ADDRESS AND HELP PREVENT URINARY INCONTINENC...

There are two reasons why I chose this time to write about Otzi. The first is that I've been looking for a good excuse to revisit human...

Otzi's Diet Otzi's digestive tract contains the remains of three meals. They were composed of cooked grains (wheat bread and whea...

The New York Times just published an article reviewing some of the recent research on exercise, food intake and food reward, titled " D...

Gil Butler has been working on a television show called Primal Chef , where he invites local chefs to make creative dishes from a list of Pa...

This is Otzi, or at least a reconstruction of what he might have looked like. 5,300 years ago, he laid down on a glacier near the border be...

Total global meat production per person has steadily increased from 0.13 lbs per day in 1961 to 0.29 lbs per day in 2009*, a 120 percent inc...

Now that WHS readers around the globe have adopted the Eocene Diet and are losing weight at an alarming rate, it's time to explain the ...

Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula, creating a giant dus...