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Unknown 9:31 AM Add Comment diet, gluten, hyperphagia, leptin, overweight Edit

Hyperphagia

One of the things I didn't mention in the last post is that Americans are eating more calories than ever before. According to Centers f...

Unknown 8:03 PM Add Comment diet, fats, overweight Edit

Media Misinterpretations

The New York Times just published an article called " The Overflowing American Dinner Plate ", in which they describe changes in t...

Unknown 7:07 PM Add Comment diet, fats, native diet Edit

Composition of the Hunter-Gatherer Diet

I bumped into a fascinating paper today by Dr. Loren Cordain titled "Plant-Animal Subsistence Ratios and Macronutrient Estimations in ...

Unknown 10:09 PM Add Comment cancer, diet, fats, Inuit, low-carb, native diet Edit

The Inuit: Lessons from the Arctic

The Inuit (also called Eskimo) are a group of hunter-gatherer cultures who inhabit the arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They ...

Unknown 10:00 PM Add Comment archaeology, book review, diet Edit

Book Review: "The Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution"

I recently read this book after discovering it on another health site. It's a compilation of chapters written by several researchers in...

Unknown 6:38 PM Add Comment archaeology, diet, gluten Edit

Grains and Human Evolution

[Update 8/2011: as I've learned more about human genetics and evolution, I've come to appreciate that many Europeans actually descen...

Unknown 6:05 PM Add Comment diet, gluten, hyperphagia, overweight Edit

Another China Tidbit

A final note about the Chinese study in the previous post: the overweight vegetable-eaters (read: wheat eaters) exercised more than their no...

Unknown 5:11 PM Add Comment diet, gluten, hyperphagia, overweight Edit

Wheat in China

Dr. Michael Eades linked to an interesting study yesterday on his Health and Nutrition blog. It's entitled "Vegetable-Rich Food ...

Unknown 11:32 PM Add Comment celiac, diet, fat-soluble vitamins, fats, gluten Edit

Celiac and Fat-Soluble Vitamins

One of the things I've been thinking about lately is the possibility that intestinal damage due to gluten grains (primarily wheat) contr...

Unknown 9:51 PM Add Comment Cardiovascular disease, diet, disease, fat-soluble vitamins, fats, French paradox, native diet Edit

Vitamin K2, menatetrenone (MK-4)

Weston Price established the importance of the MK-4 isoform of vitamin K2 (hereafter, K2) with a series of interesting experiments. He sho...

Unknown 7:23 PM Add Comment diet, fat-soluble vitamins, fats, native diet Edit

Activator X

Activator X, the almost-mythical vitamin discovered and characterized by Weston Price, has been identified! For those of you who are fami...

Unknown 8:11 PM Add Comment diet, Exercise, overweight Edit

Exercise Didn't Keep Us From Getting Fat

One of the surprising things I noticed when I was poring over data from the NHANES survey (US CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination ...

Unknown 9:39 PM Add Comment diet, overweight Edit

US Fructose Consumption Trends

As you may have noticed, I suspect fructose is involved in overweight and other health problems. It seems to have adverse effects on fat de...

Unknown 10:33 PM Add Comment diabetes, diet, Exercise, native diet, overweight, Pima Edit

Lessons From the Pima Indians

At 38% and climbing in 2006, the Pima indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona have the highest rate of diabetes of any population in the wor...

Unknown 3:52 PM Add Comment diet, Kuna, lectins, leptin, metabolic syndrome, overweight Edit

Leptin

I've been puzzled by an interesting question lately. Why is it that certain cultures are able to eat large amounts of carbohydrate and ...

Unknown 8:20 PM Add Comment diabetes, diet, low-carb, overweight Edit

Thoughts on Obesity, Part I

From the US Centers for Disease Control website : Since the mid-seventies, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased sharply...

Unknown 8:36 PM Add Comment diet, Kuna, native diet Edit

Say Hello to the Kuna

For those of you who haven't been reading the comments, we've been having a spirited discussion about the diet and health of hunter-...

Unknown 10:48 PM Add Comment diet Edit

Convenience Store Survival Training

I was on the road yesterday driving to a county court to defend myself (unsuccessfully) against a speeding ticket. I reluctantly stopped in...

Unknown 8:30 PM Add Comment Cardiovascular disease, diet, French paradox Edit

The French Paradox

According to the World Health Organization, 82 out of every 100,000 French men between ages 35 and 74 died as a result of cardiovascular dis...