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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky winner... Cheesecake Factory carrot cake!! Read more »

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Is Meat Unhealthy? Part V

In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat intake and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form o...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Pumpkin pie!! Read more »

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Pizza Hut Doritos Crunchy Crust Pizza! Read more »

Cah Gisting 10:49 Add Comment vegetarian Edit

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part IV

In this post, I'll address the question: does eating meat contribute to weight gain? Non-industrial cultures I'll get right to the p...

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Recent Interviews

For those who don't follow my Twitter account ( @whsource ), here are links to my two most recent interviews. Smash the Fat with Sam Fel...

Cah Gisting 09:57 Add Comment Cardiovascular disease, vegetarian Edit

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part III

When we consider the health impacts of eating meat, cardiovascular disease is the first thing that comes to mind. Popular diet advocates of...

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Is Meat Unhealthy? Part II

Over time, animals adapt to the foods they regularly consume. This is how archaeologists can, for example, determine that Triceratops was ...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the pumpkin spice latte!! Read more »

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Is Meat Unhealthy? Part I

Introduction At Dr. McDougall's Advanced Study Weekend, I had the opportunity to hear a number of researchers and advocates make the cas...

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Obesity → Diabetes

A new study adds to the evidence that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing in the US, and our national weight problem is ...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... profiteroles!! Read more »

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Metabolic Effects of a Traditional Asian High-carbohydrate Diet

A recent study supports the notion that an 'ancestral diet' focused around high-starch agricultural foods can cultivate leanness and...

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Help Advance Diabetes Research

A University of Virginia researcher named Hannah Menefee contacted me recently to ask for our help. She and her colleagues are conducting a...

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Food Reward Friday

Today's lucky "winner"... waffles!!! Read more »

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My AHS14 Talk on Leptin Resistance is Posted

The Ancestral Health Society just posted a video of my recent talk "What Causes Leptin Resistance?" Follow the link below to acce...

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Thoughts on the McDougall Advanced Study Weekend

For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Dr. John McDougall is a doctor and diet/health advocate who recommends a very low fat, h...

Cah Gisting 10:37 Add Comment low-carb, overweight Edit

What about the Other Weight Loss Diet Study??

The same day the low-fat vs low-carb study by Bazzano and colleagues was published, the Journal of the American Medical Association publishe...

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Low-carbohydrate vs. Low-fat diets for Weight Loss: New Evidence

A new high-profile study compared the weight loss and cardiovascular effects of a low-carbohydrate diet vs. a low-fat diet. Although many s...

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Science of Nutrition Podcast

I recently did an interview with Seth Yoder, who has a master's degree in nutrition science and writes the blog The Science of Nutrition...

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Can Hypothalamic Inflammation and Leptin Resistance be Reversed?

A new study by yours truly begins to address the key question: can hypothalamic inflammation and leptin resistance be reversed? Leptin is th...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Cheesecake Factory Bruleed French Toast! Read more »

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Help Fund High-Quality Research on Diet and Health

University of California, San Francisco researcher Dr. Ashley Mason has asked me to spread the word about a diet-health study she's prep...

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Instant Pot Electronic Pressure Cooker: Two Years Later

I've had several people tell me that the Whole Health Source post that changed their lives the most was one I published in 2012 -- about...

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Upcoming Talks

I have two talks planned over the next two months. Hope to see you there! Ancestral Health Symposium 2014: UC Berkeley, August 7-9 If you w...

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Fat and Carbohydrate: Clarifications and Details

The last two posts on fat and carbohydrate were written to answer a few important, but relatively narrow, questions that I feel are particul...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... kettle corn! Read more »

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Has Obesity Research Failed?

I frequently encounter the argument that obesity research has failed because it hasn't stopped the global increase in obesity rates. Ac...

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Calorie Intake and Body Fatness on Unrestricted High-fat vs. High-carbohydrate Diets

In recent posts, we've explored the association between calorie intake and the US obesity epidemic , and the reasons why this associatio...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Lay's milk chocolate-dipped potato chips!! Read more »

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A New Understanding of an Old "Obesity Gene"

As you know if you've been following this blog for a while, obesity risk has a strong genetic component . Genome-wide association studi...

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Fat vs. Carbohydrate Overeating: Which Causes More Fat Gain?

Two human studies, published in 1995 and 2000, tested the effect of carbohydrate vs. fat overfeeding on body fat gain in humans. What did t...

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Garden Update: A Banner Year

Things are warming up here in Seattle and the flowers are blooming. I just planted my first crops of the year-- potatoes and strawberries. ...

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More Graphs of Calorie Intake vs. BMI

In the last post, a reader commented that the correlation would be more convincing if I graphed calories vs. average BMI rather than the pre...

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Calorie Intake and the US Obesity Epidemic

Between 1960 and 2008, the prevalence of obesity in US adults increased from 13 to 34 percent, and the prevalence of extreme obesity increas...

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Uncovering the True Health Costs of Excess Weight

Is excess weight hazardous to health, or can it actually be protective? This question has provoked intense debate in the academic community...

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New Position with Nestlé

Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post I'm happy to announce that I've accepted a Product Research and Development position with...

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Corrections to the New Review Paper on Dietary Fat and Cardiovascular Risk

The meta-analysis by Chowdhury et al. raised quite a furor from certain segments of researchers and the popular media. I find this reaction...

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Book Review: Your Personal Paleo Code

Chris Kresser has been a major figure in the ancestral health community for some time now. It's funny to recall that I was actually on...

Cah Gisting 15:16 Add Comment Cardiovascular disease, diet Edit

New Review Paper on Dietary Fat and Heart Disease Risk

A new review paper on dietary fatty acids and heart disease risk was just published by Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury and colleagues in the Annals of I...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the Taco Bell waffle taco!! Read more »

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The Ultimate Detox: Your Kidneys

The specter of unseen, unspecified toxins eroding our health is worth many millions of dollars in the United States and abroad. Companies o...

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Kirkland Signature Cashew Clusters!! WHS reader Brad Dieter mentioned these on Facebook t...

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Snacktime in My Kitchen

Here is a photo of all visible food in my kitchen: Along the back wall, we have glass containers of raw nuts, unsalted roasted nuts, gr...

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Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective

I just posted a narrated Powerpoint version of my talk " Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective " to YouTube. Here'...

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Mindless Eating

You think you're in control of your eating behavior-- but you aren't In 2005, Brian Wansink's research group published a remarka...

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5 Easy and Effective Ways to Eat Less

Why do we overeat? Why is it hard to lose fat once we've gained it? Is there a way to comfortably and sustainably eat less and lose fa...

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Mysteries of Energy Balance and Weight Loss

How to Lose Weight Effortlessly You've probably seen this claim many times: a pound of fat contains 3,500 kilocalories (kcal). A slic...

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NutriScience Seminar in Lisbon with Lindeberg, Fontes, and Bastos

My friend Pedro Bastos has asked me to spread the word about a seminar he's organizing in Lisbon titled " Evidence and Evolution-ba...

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Public Talk at the University of Virginia on Friday, January 17

This Friday, I'll be giving an invited lecture at the University of Virginia, my undergraduate alma mater . I was kindly invited by a ...

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Free e-Book and Ideal Weight Program 2.0 Announcement

I'm happy to announce that we're releasing a free e-book titled Why do We Gain Fat, and How do We Lose it? An Introduction to the Sc...