The Claim: We Overeat Because Our Diet is Low in Vitamins and Minerals We know that animals, including humans, seek certain properties of fo...
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Does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" Exist?
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Obesity is strongly associated with metabolic alterations and negative health outcomes including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some ...
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Food Reward Friday
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Beans, Lentils, and the Paleo Diet
As we continue to explore the foods our ancestors relied on during our evolutionary history, and what foods work best for us today, we come ...
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Recent and Upcoming Appearances
Smarter Science of Slim Jonathan Bailor recently released an interview we did a few months ago on the neurobiology of body fat regulation, ...
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Buckwheat Crepes Revisited
One of my most popular posts of all time was a recipe I published in 2010 for sourdough buckwheat crepes ( 1 ). I developed this recipe to ...
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New Post on Eat Move Sleep Blog
Yesterday, the Dan's Plan blog Eat Move Sleep published a blog post I wrote about sleep, artificial light, your brain, and a free compu...
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Sleep and Genetic Obesity Risk
Evidence is steadily accumulating that insufficient sleep increases the risk of obesity and undermines fat loss efforts. Short sleep durati...
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Speaking in Lisbon on October 5
My friend Pedro Bastos graciously invited me to speak at a conference he organized in Lisbon on October 5 titled "Food, Nutrition and t...
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Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?
[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to...
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More Thoughts on Cold Training: Biology Chimes In
Now that the concept of cold training for cold adaptation and fat loss has received scientific support, I've been thinking more about ho...
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Reflections on the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium
I just returned from the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium in Atlanta. Despite a few challenges with the audio/visual setup, I think it went ...
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AHS Talk This Saturday
For those who are attending the Ancestral Health Symposium this year, my talk will be at 9:00 AM on Saturday. The title is "Insulin an...
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Food Reward Friday
This week's lucky "winner"... cola! Thirsty yet? Visual cues such as these are used to drive food/beverage seeking and consum...
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Food Reward Friday
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Brown Fat: It's a Big Deal
Non-shivering thermogenesis is the process by which the body generates extra heat without shivering. Shivering is a way for the body to us...
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Zucchini: The Home Gardener's Worst Friend? With bonus garden-related rambling.
One of my main gardening goals has been to harvest more of something than I can eat, despite my limited gardening space here in the Emerald ...
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The Genetics of Obesity, Part III
Genetics Loads the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger Thanks to a WHS reader* for reminding me of the above quote by Dr. Francis Collins, di...
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Return to the Source Parkour Camp
For those who are interested in natural movement training, this summer my friend Rafe Kelley will be hosting an interesting three-day event ...
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Food Reward Friday
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The Genetics of Obesity, Part I
Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean? In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study ...
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Food Reward Friday
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Food Reward Friday
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Food Reward Friday
This week's "winner" will certainly be the most controversial yet... bacon!! Bacon is a fatty cut of pork (typically side or b...
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The Neurobiology of the Obesity Epidemic
I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the b...
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Speaking at AHS13
The 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium will be held in Atlanta, GA, August 14-17. Last year was a great conference, and I look forward to more...
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Food Variety, Calorie Intake, and Weight Gain
Let's kick off this post with a quote from a 2001 review paper ( 1 ): Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the develop...
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Food Reward Friday
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Book Review: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has made a career writing about the US food system. In his latest book, Salt, Sugar...
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Food Reward Friday
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Glucagon, Dietary Protein, and Low-Carbohydrate Diets
Glucagon is a hormone that plays an important role in blood glucose control. Like insulin, it's secreted by the pancreas, though it...
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Are Animal Crackers Paleo?
Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post Every child loves animal crackers, those sweet and crunchy animal-shaped biscuits. But are they ...
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Food Reward Friday
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Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight
Last week, I attended a Keystone conference, "Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight", in Banff. Keystone conference...
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