Ways to make your skin healthy by : Chloe park
The primary step to keeping your skin healthy is preventing damage. Pollutants, air, sun as well as by just natural aging can certainly mortify the form of your skin. Frequent grumbles incorporate dry...
View ArticleA Brief Response to Taubes's Food Reward Critique, and a Little Something Extra
It appears Gary Taubes has completed his series critiquing the food reward hypothesis of obesity (1). I have to hand it to him, it takes some cojones to critique an entire field of research,...
View ArticleWhat Causes Insulin Resistance? Part II
In the last post, I described how cellular energy excess causes insulin resistance, and how this is triggered by whole-body energy imbalance. In this post, I'll describe another major cause of insulin...
View ArticleDoes High Circulating Insulin Drive Body Fat Accumulation? Answers from...
The house mouse Mus musculus is an incredible research tool in the biomedical sciences, due to its ease of care and its ability to be genetically manipulated. Although mice aren't humans, they...
View ArticleWhat Causes Insulin Resistance? Part I
Insulin is an ancient hormone that influences many processes in the body. Its main role is to manage circulating concentrations of nutrients (principally glucose and fatty acids, the body's two main...
View ArticleTwo Recent Papers by Matt Metzgar
This is just a quick post to highlight two recent papers by the economist and fellow health writer Matt Metzgar.The first paper is titled "The Feasibility of a Paleolithic Diet for Low-income...
View ArticleAnother Simple Food Weight Loss Experience
Whole Health Source reader Sarah Pugh recently went on a six-week simple food (low reward) diet to test its effectiveness as a weight loss strategy, and she was kind enough to describe her experience...
View ArticleCatered Paleo Dinner with Yours Truly
Gil Butler, organizer of the Western Washington Paleo Enthusiasts group, has organized a catered "paleo" dinner on Sunday, October 9th. He will be screening the first episode of "Primal Chef",...
View ArticleHyperinsulinemia: Cause or Effect of Obesity?
Is Elevated Insulin the Cause or Effect of Obesity?The carbohydrate hypothesis, in its most popular current incarnation, states that elevated insulin acts on fat cells to cause fat storage, leading to...
View ArticlePrimal Docs
Chris Armstrong, creator of the website Celiac Handbook, has designed a new non-commercial website called Primal Docs to help people connect with ancestral health-oriented physicians. It's currently...
View ArticleFat Tissue Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity
In this post, I'll discuss a few more facts pertaining to the idea that elevated insulin promotes the accumulation of fat mass. Insulin Action on Fat Cells Over the Course of Fat Gain The idea that...
View ArticleThe Brain Controls Insulin Action
Insulin regulates blood glucose primarily by two mechanisms: Suppressing glucose production by the liverEnhancing glucose uptake by other tissues, particularly muscle and liverSince the cells contained...
View ArticleThe Case for the Food Reward Hypothesis of Obesity, Part II
In this post, I'll explore whether or not the scientific evidence is consistent with the predictions of the food reward hypothesis, as outlined in the last post. Before diving in, I'd like to address...
View ArticleThe Case for the Food Reward Hypothesis of Obesity, Part I
IntroductionWhen you want to investigate something using the scientific method, first you create a model that you hope describes a natural phenomenon-- this is called a hypothesis. Then you go about...
View ArticleHarvard Food Law Society "Forum on Food Policy" TEDx Conference
Last Friday, it was my pleasure to attended and present at the Harvard Food Law Society's TEDx conference, Forum on Food Policy. I had never been to Cambridge or Boston before, and I was struck by how...
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Humans on a Cafeteria Diet
In the 1970s, as the modern obesity epidemic was just getting started, investigators were searching for new animal models of diet-induced obesity. They tried all sorts of things, from sugar to various...
View ArticleLosing Fat With Simple Food-- Two Reader Anecdotes
Each week, I'm receiving more e-mails and comments from people who are successfully losing fat by eating simple (low reward) food, similar to what I described here. In some cases, people are breaking...
View ArticleHow to Kegel Exercises
The Kegel is the name of a pelvic floor exercise, in honor of Dr. Kegel who discovered the exercise in 1948. I call "invisible year", because you can do when no one can say. Kegels are a series of...
View ArticleCHEMOTHERAPY CAN BE USED SAFELY AFTER FIRST TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY
A cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but is even more traumatic when the patient is pregnant. A new study offers some reassurance to pregnant patients and their physicians.The results of the small...
View ArticleCANCER DEATHS OVERTAKE HEART DISEASE IN CANADA
For the first time, cancer has overtaken heart disease as the number-one cause of death across Canada, according to the latest statistics here [1].According to numbers released yesterday, cancer...
View ArticleNEW GUIDELINES FOR REIRRADIATION OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER
When head and neck cancer recurs and surgery is not an option, reirradiation provides the only potentially curative option. However, because the tumor often recurs in the same place or very close to...
View ArticleTWICE DAILY ASPIRIN MAY BE BETTER FOR DIABETICS
Twice-daily aspirin administration, but not a once-daily doubling of the dose, appears to provide good inhibition of platelet cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 in diabetic patients who have rapid recovery of...
View ArticleFOOD WITH ORAL CANCER DRUGS?
Are oral oncology drugs being mislabeled? Maybe.Most oral cancer drugs stipulate that they should be taken in a fasting state, but some actually have better bioavailability when taken with food. This...
View ArticleSTATINS-A GOOD MEDICINE
Long-term results of the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes--Lipid-Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA) study, eight years after the trial officially stopped, showed that treatment with 10 mg of atorvastatin...
View ArticleMASTECTOMY OFFERS NO SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE IN YOUNG WOMEN
Lumpectomy with adjuvant radiation and mastectomy provide "equivalent" overall and disease-specific survival in young women with early breast cancer, according to a new study presented at a press...
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