Here’s another for those of you with some time on your hands over this holiday season. Once again, I’ve known about this amazing video for some time but just finally got around to watching it yesterday.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
In this video Dr. Robert Lustig takes you on an amazing educational journey about sugar and specifically, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Good Science'
Dr. Robert Lustig on Fructose: “Alcohol without the buzz”
December 27th, 2009 · 36 Comments · Food & Fitness Heros, Good Science, Paleo Eating
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My New Hero: 25-Year Vegetarian Christopher Gardner
December 25th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Good Science, Heath Improvements
Being a hero or gaining respect is easy: be honest. Bonus points for being honest when it’s the very last thing you desire to do. How you deliver honesty is irrelevant. That’s why I do it a bit rough, now and then.
Dr. Gardner did it gently, and he did it in spades and spades all [...]
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NOVA: Becoming Human
November 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Evolutionary Thinking, Good Science
Just a quick public service announcement that tonight begins a three-part series on NOVA on PBS: Becoming Human.
There are a number of preview videos on the site, including this nearly 10-minute version that covers the whole series.
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Saturated Fat Intake vs. Heart Disease & Stroke
September 22nd, 2009 · 22 Comments · Cholesterol Con, Epidemiology, Good Science, Low Fat Ignorance
Reader Alexander Thorn in the UK put together some impressive work using data from the British Heart Foundation and emailed it to me the other day. Let’s take a look. You can click on all the graphs for the much larger "lightbox" image, and/or click on the links below each graph to download the files.
You [...]
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Report: A Carb Binge
July 26th, 2009 · 91 Comments · Good Science, Junk "Food", Paleo Eating, Uncategorized
So we went to a concert Friday night — Dave Mason, and then The Moody Blues. Hell yea! Because of the time frame in which we arrived in Arnold, CA, then had to leave for the show, no time to get dinner (and who wants to fast at a concert???). So, I quickly decided this [...]
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