A University of Virginia researcher named Hannah Menefee contacted me recently to ask for our help. She and her colleagues are conducting a study on how people with type 2 diabetes use Facebook to manage their health, and how that technology can be leveraged to support effective health communication. If you have type 2 diabetes, and you'd like to participate in the study, please join their Diabetes Management Study Facebook group. There, you'll receive more information about the study, you'll receive a short survey,...
Friday, 26 September 2014
Friday, 19 September 2014
Food Reward Friday
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Today's lucky "winner"... waffles!!!Read more...
Thursday, 18 September 2014
My AHS14 Talk on Leptin Resistance is Posted
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The Ancestral Health Society just posted a video of my recent talk "What Causes Leptin Resistance?" Follow the link below to access it. Enjoy!What Causes Leptin Resistanc...
Monday, 8 September 2014
Thoughts on the McDougall Advanced Study Weekend
Posted by Admin in: diet low-carb native diet paleolithic diet presentations
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, high starch, whole food vegan diet to control weight and avoid chronic disease. He's been at it for a long time, and he's a major figure in the "plant-based diet" community (i.e., a diet including little or no animal foods).Dr. McDougall invited me to participate in his 3-day Advanced Study Weekend retreat in Santa Rosa, CA. My job was to give my talk on insulin and obesity, and participate...
Thursday, 4 September 2014
What about the Other Weight Loss Diet Study??
Posted by Admin in: low-carb overweight
The same day the low-fat vs low-carb study by Bazzano and colleagues was published, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a meta-analysis that compared the effectiveness of "named diet programs". Many people have interpreted this study as demonstrating that low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets are both effective for weight loss, and that we simply need to pick a diet and stick with it, but that's not really what the study showed. Let's take a closer look.Johnston and colleagues sifted through PubMed...
Monday, 1 September 2014
Low-carbohydrate vs. Low-fat diets for Weight Loss: New Evidence
Posted by Admin in: low-carb overweight
A new high-profile study compared the weight loss and cardiovascular effects of a low-carbohydrate diet vs. a low-fat diet. Although many studies have done this before, this one is novel enough to add to our current understanding of diet and health. Unlike most other studies of this nature, diet adherence was fairly good, and carbohydrate restriction produced greater weight loss and cardiovascular risk factor improvements than fat restriction at the one-year mark. Yet like previous studies, neither diet produced...
