Intermission - religion and science

Some thoughts on the brink of a new year. An intermission in the exercise for fat loss rambling was at its place. There are people in this w...

What is the best exercise for fat loss? Part II

Energy expenditure – does it count? No current treatment for obesity reliably sustains weight loss, perhaps because compensatory metabolic p...

What is the best exercise for fat loss?

You’d think this question was easy to answer after studying exercise and health for many years. You’d think I would know. I would think I wo...

Play

Let’s face it, we are social animals. Being forced to solitary living is considered a punishment and rightly so. As social animals we play, ...

The Human Animal

When I grew up I loved watching nature shows on TV (and I still do). My dad is a science teacher and used to tape all the good shows. I espe...

What if…

“ And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to p...

Like talking to a brick wall

To disagree only as much as the evidence permits Jamie Scott, the Primal Muse hit a brick wall recently . Metaphorically speaking, of course...

Come on guys, you’re smarter than this

Just because a wording, written or spoken is simplified to better communicate the message at hand, it does not mean we should think simple t...

A closer look at adiponectin

Whether insulin or leptin or adiponectin or PPAR gamma or NF KB or a bajillion cytokines are the proximate mediators of obesity or atheroscl...

Enough is better than too much – the only dietary guidelines you’ll ever need.

Now that I’ve gotten your attention with an overly bold title I will still be so bold as to introduce the draft of my very own dietary guide...

A scientist’s dilemma

I would like to consider myself a scientist – or at the very least a man of science. I do science for a living, although admittedly I don’t ...

Exercise Zen

“ When I'm in this state everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. And if I can put myself into that coco...