LEPTIN AND LOCAL CELLULAR HUNGER – UNITING THE THEORIES

I might be really off on this one so I would be grateful for any feedback on the validity of this rambling. Leptin About 15 years ago the 16...

Hunger Triggers Part 4: Can Exercise Make You Hungry? The Gym Effect

This is part #4 of my answers for Allure Magazine's "Hunger Triggers" April, 2010 article . Scenario #4: The Exercise or ...

Hunger Triggers Part 3: The Diet Food Effect

This is part #3 of my answers for Allure Magazine's "Hunger Triggers" April, 2010 article. Scenario #3 The Diet Food Effect ...

Hunger Triggers Part 2: The Couch Potato Effect: how TV makes us overeat

This is part 2 of 4, of my answers for the April, 2010 Allure Magazine article on "Hunger Triggers." Scenario #2 The Couch Potato ...

Allure Magazine: Hunger Triggers, Part I: Eating with Friends

Health writer Rory Evans contributes to many magazines, and frequently consults multiple experts for advice for her articles. I’ve helped R...

The causality of insulin resistance

There seem to be two large somewhat competing hypotheses trying to explain the causality of insulin resistance (as measured at a whole body ...

Colpo, Eades and black swans.

There is a blogging battle going on. Dueling, are Anthony Colpo and  Michael Eades . It seems Eades has Colpo cornered, and in the last rou...

The trouble with insulin resistance, part III

I was in way over my head starting to ramble on about insulin resistance hoping I would identify a causal link. But I feel I should finish w...

Ketogenic diet and resistance exercise

Not to brag, but new study out here . Hope someone will find it interesting.

More trouble with insulin resistance

I’ll make an attempt to sum up some of my previous rambling. When we talk about insulin resistance it is often important to include informat...

Just a small reminder

”…low carbohydrate diet sets the stage for a significant loss of lean tissue as the body recruits amino acids from muscle to maintain bloo...

By the way...

New exiting study in Diabetes Care. Abstract here. It seems that if you put overweight people on a resistance exercise program three days a...

The trouble with insulin resistance

Been thinking a lot about insulin resistance lately. Most importantly how a resistance in different tissues might cause different pathologie...

Big fat lies

Hanna Sutter from Big Fat Lies in Daily Mail: "For the past 30 years we've been told to eat less and exercise more, to cut back on ...

Cancer as a metabolic disease

Is cancer a metabolic disease? In principle, there are few chronic diseases more easily preventable than cancer. Seyfried and Shelton 2010 A...