Ketogenic Diet Myths vs. Facts | Nina Teicholz

By on November 27, 2018 in Diet, Science

Ketogenic Diet Myths vs. Facts | Nina Teicholz

A slew of articles in recent months have referred to the ketogenic diet as a “fad” or “trend.” It’s “dangerous,” claimed one article, and an anonymous post by the Harvard Public School of Public Health said the diet “comes with serious risks.”

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The Case Against Carbohydrates Gets Stronger

By on November 20, 2018 in Diet, Food Science, Science

The case against carbohydrates gets stronger

As anyone who’s gone on a diet knows, once you lose some weight, it gets harder to lose more. The “eat less, move more” mantra, as simple as it sounds, doesn’t help us deal with our bodies’ metabolic reality: As we shed pounds, we get even hungrier and our metabolism slows down.

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Fatty foods don’t cause heart disease, bread and pasta do – Washington Times

By on July 9, 2018 in Diet, Health

Fatty foods don’t cause heart disease, bread and pasta do

This year, more than 610,000 Americans will die from heart disease. It’s the leading cause of death for both men and women. For decades, doctors and nutritionists prescribed low-fat diets to people trying to lower their risk of heart disease. Saturated fats in meats and dairy products were thought to clog our arteries.

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Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that wants you to be vegan – Vox

By on April 30, 2018 in Diet

Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that wants you to be vegan

There’s a sensational documentary out on Netflix that seems to have a lot of people talking about going vegan. In the spirit of so many food documentaries and diet books that have come before,What the Health promises us there is one healthy way to eat. And it involves cutting all animal products from our diet.

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ZDoggMD Interview: Lose Weight AND Eat Jellybeans, w/Dr. Charlie Seltzer

By on March 11, 2018 in Diet, Exercise, Science

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A Real Doctor Watches “What The Health”

By on March 3, 2018 in Diet, Health

A Real Doc Watches What The Health: Extra Scenes

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U.S. News is wrong about what constitutes the best diet

By on January 29, 2018 in Diet

Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz weigh in on…

U.S. News is wrong about what constitutes the best diet

Dieter beware: U.S. News & World Report, in its high-profile January cover story on “best diets,” calls the DASH and Mediterranean diets tops for health, though these regimens represent the failed nutritional status quo of the last 50 years. DASH is listed first in the U.S.

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Weight management program can put type 2 diabetes into remission — ScienceDaily

By on January 6, 2018 in Diet, Fitness

Type 2 diabetes remission possible: “Almost a quarter (36/149) of the weight management group achieved weight loss of 15 kg or more at 12 months, compared with none in the control group. Additionally, nearly half of the weight management group (68/149) achieved diabetes remission at 1 year, compared with six (4%) in the control group.”

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Velominati › The Rules

By on January 2, 2018 in Exercise

The Rules

We are the Keepers of the Cog. In so being, we also maintain the sacred text wherein lie the simple truths of cycling etiquette known as The Rules. It is in our trust to maintain and endorse this list. The Rules lie at the beginning of The Path to La …

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How Much Does Body Weight Affect Climbing Speed? GCN Does Science

By on November 27, 2017 in Exercise

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