A new study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ), has been gaining increasing m...

The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 was very interesting on many levels. Aaron Blaisdell and the team of volunteers really did a superb job...

In another post ( ) I discussed evidence that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expendi...

When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...

Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...

One of the problems often pointed out about rice, and particularly about white rice, is that its nutrition content is fairly low. It is basi...

Carbohydrate-rich foods lead to the formation of blood sugars after digestion (e.g., glucose, fructose), which are then used by the liver to...