This week's lucky "winner"... the Reese's PBC Burger!! Image credit: The Works Read more »
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Do Processed and Red Meat Cause Cancer?
Today, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer published a statement in The Lancet detailing its pos...
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Why Do Girls and Boys Reach Puberty Younger Than They Used To?
Girls, and probably boys, are reaching puberty years younger than they did in our great-grandparents' generation. Why? There's no ...
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Will You Fill Out This Paleo Diet Survey?
This week, I received an e-mail from a graduate student at Humboldt State University named May Patiño. She asked me to share her online res...
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That Time I Ate Most of a Large Pizza in One Sitting
Two weeks ago, I had a brush with Extreme Eating. My experience illustrates some important principles of how the brain regulates appetite a...
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Taking a Sexual History
The 5 P's of Sexual History Taking: For additional resources that were not covered in class, please refer to the following on effective ...
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Out for Two Weeks
I'll be out of town with limited internet until September 27th. Feel free to leave comments, but I won't be able to moderate them u...
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How Much Does Sugar Contribute to Obesity?
Last week, the British Medical Journal published a review article titled "Dietary Sugars and Body Weight", concluding that "f...
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More Thoughts on the Recent Low-fat vs. Low-carb Metabolic Ward Study
The recent low-carb vs. low-fat study has provoked criticism from parts of the diet-health community. Let's examine these objections an...
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Should I be juicing? One of the new and interesting things I have been getting a lot of questions about recently are juice cleanses. The...
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A New Human Trial Undermines the Carbohydrate-insulin Hypothesis of Obesity, Again
The carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis of obesity states that carbohydrates (particularly refined carbohydrates and sugar) are the primary caus...
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Refined Sugar Worsens Blood Lipid Markers of Cardiovascular Disease
Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are common...
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What Properties Make a Food "Addictive"?
Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors ...
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I am an avid fan of the widely popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black . I’ve been raving about the show since its first season in 201...
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Food Reward Friday
This week's lucky winner... the Pizza Hut Hot Dog Bites pizza!!! Read more »
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Insulin Resistance Predicts a Variety of Age-related Diseases
In the last post, I reviewed a study by Gerald Reaven's group showing that insulin resistance strongly predicts the risk of cardiovascul...
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Insulin Resistance Strongly Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Risk
I recently came across a very interesting paper by the research team of Gerald Reaven, an endocrinologist at Stanford. He has long been one...
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Food Reward Friday
This week's lucky "winner"... Hardee's Most American Thickburger!! Read more »
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Recent Interviews
Here are two recent interviews I'd like to share with readers: Danny Lennon of Sigma Nutrition Danny Lennon is an evidence-based nutrit...
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A Mother's Day Tradition in Philadelphia
Mother's Day typically means phone calls, flowers, visits and gifts. In Philadelphia, it also means the annual Susan G. Komen Race for ...
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