Biochemistry textbooks generally tell us that we can’t turn fatty acids into glucose. For example, on page 634 of the 2006 and 2008 editions of Biochemistry by Berg, Tymoczko, and Stryer, we find the following: Animals Cannot Convert Fatty Acids to Glucose It is important to note that animals are unable to effect the net …
Last year around this time, I culled a few pearls of wisdom from folks much wiser than I am to provide a reflection on the holiday of Thanksgiving and the actual practice of giving thanks, for which the holiday is named. I can’t top that this year, so if you missed it or you’d like …
New post over on Mother Nature Obeyed: Good Lard, Bad Lard: What Do You Get When You Cross a Pig and a Coconut? The post follows up on the revised fatty acid profile for Research Diets D12492, and discusses the effects of grass-guzzling and coconut-gobbling on the fatty acid profile of lard.
by Chris Masterjohn Hi folks! It’s certainly been a while. Up until this past weekend I was preparing for Wise Traditions, and this week I’ve been playing catch-up after taking a few days off from work for that conference. It was a blast, and I’ll write more about it soon. One of the things I …
O Solid Fat, turn not thy face from thy Lord, for my budget is in trouble. In “Fructose, Public Policy, and the Low-Fat Reeducation Camp,” I made the following prediction: If they come for our fructose, they will come for our fat next. It seems that Denmark has provided some evidence for this postulate by …
I’ve written a few posts about advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) in the past, which can be found here. These posts include a refutation of the common belief that the “receptor for AGEs” (RAGE) is actually a receptor for AGEs, and a refutation of the implausible and unreliable data suggesting that butter is a major source …
The next post in my Masai series is up over at Mother Nature Obeyed:
New blog post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Fat and Diabetes: Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione Enjoy!
This is the third and final installment of The Masai Part I: A Glimpse of Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in the Loita Masai over at Mother Nature Obeyed: The Masai Part I: A Glimpse of Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in the Loita Masai (installment 3) In this installment, we see a historical example where a …
Unfortunately my two most recent blog posts on the Masai blacked out over at Mother Nature Obeyed shortly after posting the second one. But they are now up and running! Theoretically, the site error is permanently fixed. Enjoy! The Masai: Introduction The Masai Part I: A Glimpse of Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in the Loita …