It’s your choice

A recent study by Yancy et al shows that going on a low fat calorie restricted diet in combination with the shady orlistat drug results in t...

Great blog and great former blogger current twitterer

Dave Dixon here: http://twitter.com/sparkofreason and Petro Dobromylsky j here: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com /

The tide is turning

Ronald M Krauss, former Senior Advisor to the National Cholesterol Education Program, actively involved with the American Heart Association,...

The devil is in the details

Sherlock Holmes is back on the screen. A master of deduction and a firm believer in science, he is showing us the devil is in the details. B...

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...

About hunger

Much has been said about hunger. The sensation is often considered largely under cognitive control. An overweight person seeking counselling...

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 second question provides the answer

On our way to understand overweight we have (that is I have, but I thought you should be included) defined overweight as excess storage of e...

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...

The start of a yet another blog

So I thought I'd try this blog thingy out. It's so modern these days. This blog will be dedicated to my passion for health scie...

"Full Effect" Foods

Have you ever noticed that eating certain foods seems to make you feel hungrier? Some patients tell me that they are not hungry until they ...

Naturally Skinny People

We all know a few of them. Those naturally skinny people who seem to be able to eat whatever they want, and never gain an ounce. Those peo...

Dr. Mom

Well, it's Mother's Day, and what am I doing? Taking a few minutes for myself, to catch up on things, including my blog! A little...