by JerraldHayes | Oct 12, 2021 | Diet, Science
Obesity Paper Has Diet Researchers Riled Up Last month, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ( AJCN) published a perspective piece that stirred up tensions in the worlds of epidemiology, physiology, and nutrition. Doctors and researchers argued on Twitter;...
by JerraldHayes | Jul 5, 2021 | Diet, Science
The GOLO Program: Science-Based or Typical Fad Diet? – I was recently contacted by a major outlet to give an interview about the GOLO program. Surprisingly, I had never heard of it, so I looked this plan up to see what it was all about. Eh. Sometimes, I wish I...
by JerraldHayes | Jul 5, 2021 | Diet, Science
Gary Taubes and the Case Against Sugar | Science-Based Medicine Gary Taubes is a journalist on a crusade. In two earlier books, Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, he marshaled masses of evidence to support his thesis that the...
by JerraldHayes | Mar 8, 2019 | Diet, Science
Why All the Confusion About Healthy Diets? | The Doctor Weighs In 3. Industrially-produced trans fats are harmful and should be eliminated. 4. An issue that requires more study is that the metabolism of saturated fat may differ on carbohydrate-restricted diets. 5....
by JerraldHayes | Nov 27, 2018 | 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...
by JerraldHayes | Nov 20, 2018 | Diet, Food Science, Science
Op-Ed: 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...
