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The REAL Paleo Challenge: How NOT to be Just Another Elitist Fad for Skinny...
The blogsphere is beginning to rattle with commentary on the recent Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 events. Some folks who don’t necessarily “look the paleo part” have voiced concern about feeling...
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From Paleo to Paradigm-Shift: Building a Nutrition Reform Network
Brief recap: What can we do to transform this paleo-led, Ancestral Health Society-supported community into the public health, human rights revolution it could be? According to Doug Imig at the...
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From Paleo to Public Health: We have met the enemy and we are them
Believe it or not, when I started this blog post, I wasn’t even thinking about the current sturm und drang in the paleo community. If you follow the paleo world gossip, you already know about it; if...
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N of 1 Nutrition Part 2: Biochemistry and Nutrition Policy – The Great Divorce
Full disclosure: I happen to love biochemistry. I have a favorite transcription factor (ChREBP) and a favorite neurotrophic factor (BDNF). I think proteins are beautiful. If I were a biochemist who had...
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Where the Women Are, Nutrition Edition
I really try not to pout too much when I see lists like the one below from Jimmy Moore’s 2012 survey on “most trusted resources for the information you received about health”: After pouring through a...
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RD does NOT stand for “Really Dumb”
All you need to do is google “dietitians are stupid.” (Go ahead, I’ll wait here.) “Dumbshit nutritionists” [Free the Animal] all over America are apparently giving out “misleading, scientifically...
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Guest Post: James Woodward on Why Science May Not Be Enough
I’d like to introduce readers to a friend and fellow grad student, James Woodward. His undergraduate work was in economics at Ohio University, and he has a Master’s in public policy from the University...
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“Broccoli has more protein than steak”—and other crap
Of all the asinine things that I read about nutrition—and let me tell you, I read a lot of them—this one has got to be the asininniest: Broccoli has more protein than steak. I’ve seen this idiotic meme...
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TMAO? LMAO.
Move over saturated fat and cholesterol. There’s a new kid on the heart disease block: TMAO. TMAO is not, as I first suspected, a new internet acronym that I was going to have to get my kids to...
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The NaCl Debacle Part 2: We don’t need no stinkin’ science!
Sodium-Slashing Superheroes Low-Sodium Larry and his bodacious side-kick Linda “The Less Salt the Better” Van Horn team up to protect Americans from the evils lurking in a teaspoon of salt!(Drawings...
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As the Calories Churn (Episode 1): Nooooo, not the carbs!!!
Oh the drama! Some of the current hyperventilating in the alternative nutrition community–sugar is toxic, insulin is evil, vegetable oils give you cancer, and running will kill you–has, much to my...
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As the Calories Churn (Episode 3): The Blame Game
In the previous episode of As the Calories Churn, we explored the differences in food supply/consumption between America in 1970 and America in 2010. We learned that there were some significant changes...
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans: We don’t need no stinkin’ science
I know, I know. I never post. I never call. I don’t bring you flowers. It’s a wonder we’re still together. I have the usual list of excuses: 1) GRADUATE SCHOOL But before I disappear off the face of...
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Again, in 3-part harmony–it’s not about “the science”
Let me be straight. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories.* There’s no Bacon-gate. No Cowspiracy. No Salami-mafia out to suppress sandwich meat. But, as the students in my Introduction to Science,...
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