Lately I keep running into the idea that the proper way to do science is to continually strive to disprove a hypothesis, rather than support it*. According to these writers, this is what scientists are supposed to aspire to, but I've never actually heard a scientist say this. The latest example was recently published in the Wall Street Journal (1). This evokes an image of the Super Scientist, one who is so skeptical that he never believes his own ideas and is constantly trying to tear them down. I'm...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
New Review Paper by Yours Truly: High-Fat Dairy, Obesity, Metabolic Health and Cardiovascular Disease
Posted by Admin in: Cardiovascular disease diabetes diet disease fats metabolic syndrome overweight yogurt
My colleagues Drs. Mario Kratz, Ton Baars, and I just published a paper in the European Journal of Nutrition titled "The Relationship Between High-Fat Dairy Consumption and Obesity, Cardiovascular, and Metabolic Disease". Mario is a nutrition researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center here in Seattle, and friend of mine. He's doing some very interesting research on nutrition and health (with an interest in ancestral diets), and I'm confident that we'll be getting some major insights from his research...
Thursday, 19 July 2012
What Causes Type 2 Diabetes, and How Can it be Prevented?
Posted by Admin in: diabetes diet disease overweight
In the comments of the last post, we've been discussing the relationship between body fatness and diabetes risk. I think this is really worth understanding, because type 2 diabetes is one of the few lifestyle disorders where 1) the basic causes are fairly well understood, and 2) we have effective diet/lifestyle prevention strategies that have been clearly supported by multiple controlled trials.Read more...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Interview with Aitor Calero of Directo al Paladar
Posted by Admin in: diet disease Food reward gluten low-carb overweight
Aitor Calero writes for the popular Spanish cooking and nutrition blog, Directo al Paladar ("straight to the palate"). We did a written interview a while back, and he agreed to let me post the English version on my blog. The Spanish version is here and here.Without further ado, here it is:Read more...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Why Did Energy Expenditure Differ Between Diets in the Recent Study by Dr. Ludwig's Group?
Posted by Admin in: diet low-carb overweight
As discussed in the previous post, a recent study by Dr. David Ludwig's group suggested that during weight maintenance following fat loss, eating a very low carbohydrate (VLC) diet led to a higher metabolic rate (energy expenditure) than eating a low-fat (LF) diet, with a low glycemic index (LGI) diet falling in between the two (1). The VLC diet was 30 percent protein, while the other two were 20 percent. It's important to note that these were three dietary patterns that differed in many ways, and contrary to claims...
