The folly of the mean - Why do they differ so?

A few years ago I did a small study where we combined a ketogenic diet with resistance exercise [1]. After 10 weeks the 8 women in the diet ...

Overfeeding - Calories count, but don’t bother counting them

" The upper two sets of figures show Mr. A. Levanzin of Malta, Dr. Benedict’s celebrated subject, before and at the completion of his f...

Fat people are liars

Obviously! Obesity is a remarkably simple problem to solve. Eat less and move more. When energy expenditure exceeds energy intake, you lose ...

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...

Local cellular hunger

I once wrote a short paper about menstrual disturbances in female athletes. Menstrual disorders seem to be more prevalent in athletes than s...

A scale model of obesity

Whatever the individual cause of obesity is, in the absolute majority of cases, carbohydrate restriction works effectively at reducing adipo...

Does it fit the facts?

Explaining overweight through the effect of insulin and glucose metabolism on fat tissue can so far only be termed a hypothesis. It is a hyp...

The important question

By defining overweight as excess storage of energy in fat tissue (and consequently to little use of energy from the same tissue), we are onl...

Defining overweight

The first thing I'm going to do in this blog is to explain what causes overweight and obesity. I'll also explain what can be done ab...