by Chris Masterjohn The know-it-all? Or this curious little fellow? One of the most pervasive human traits is perhaps one of the greatest scourges of mankind — the inability to say “I don’t know.” There are some things we know quite well about genetics. Many “molecular traits” are rooted in single genes that are passed …
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Ned Kock Provides a Philosophical Breakthrough on Fruit
In retrospect, I don’t know why this wasn’t obvious to me years ago, but my hindsight is really the only thing that didn’t start failing me when I turned 17 and my opthamologist told me I was “just getting older.” Ned Kock recently provided me with a philosophical breakthrough on fruit, buried in a post …
Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It Enjoy!
When Fat Burns In the Flame of Lean Muscle Mass — Better Put That Butter Either on Steak or Potatoes
My last post was political and got 17 comments just in the first six hours. I suppose that means I’m due for another post about religion, or one about sex. Given Stephan Guyenet’s recent post about the dangers of hyperpalatability, though, I’m inclined to obey the proverb “don’t take too much honey” and delicately sprinkle …
Fructose, Public Policy, and The Low-Fat Re-Education Camp (Short Post)
Here’s another short post in honor of my readers with ADHD. One subject that came up in Dr. Lustig’s recent interview on “Sugar and Health” is the need to formulate public policy in order to reduce fructose consumption. I think, as advocates of real traditional foods that will invariably have differing political dispositions, we need to …
Let Us Honor Ancel Keys, Our Patron, As We Cherry Pick Studies to Bash Fructose (Revised and Extended)
My apologies to anyone who received this in their RSS feed on Thursday as a teaser. I have now revised and extended it to include several studies showing that diet-induced obesity can be achieved in rats and mice without using any sugar at all, and have included a clearer conclusion. Ancel Keys is best known …
New Fatty Liver Study Shows that Carbohydrate Restriction Causes Statistical Anomalies
A new study claims to show that carbohydrate restriction is superior to calorie restriction at improving fatty liver disease: Browning JD, Baker JA, Rogers T, Davis J, Satapati S, Burgess SC. Short-term weight loss and hepatic triglyceride reduction: evidence of a metabolic advantage with dietary carbohydrate restriction. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 In this study …
The New Genetics — Part V: Is the Intestinal Microbiome Part of Our Genome?
Part V of The New Genetics Has the human genome project really been completed? One could argue that in fact it will not be completed until its sequel, the Human Microbiome Project, is completed. One set of authors referred to it as “another phase of the ‘human’ genome sequencing project.” The available evidence suggests that …
What Grad School and Professional Research Should Be Like
Melissa McEwen has a great new post on why we’re all too busy. Mvar _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-22004430-1′]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘https://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); As I was …
Highlights From Experimental Biology 2011
I arrived in Washington, DC on Friday evening to meet with 13,000 other biological scientists for the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting and just got home Wednesday night. I was there to give a 15-minute presentation on how I fed an overdose of fructose to a couple dozen rats and it didn’t do any of the …