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diet low-carb overweight Why Did Energy Expenditure Differ Between Diets in the Recent Study by Dr. Ludwig's Group? As discussed in the previous post, a recent study by Dr. David Ludwig's group suggested that during weight maintenance following fat los... By apit nursing Sunday, July 1, 2012 Comment
diet fats low-carb overweight New Study: Is a Calorie a Calorie? A new study in JAMA led by Dr. Cara B. Ebbeling and colleagues purports to challenge the idea that all calories are equally fattening ( 1 ).... By apit nursing Thursday, June 28, 2012 Comment
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diet overweight Calories Still Matter The Centers for Disease Control's NHANES surveys documented a massive increase in obesity in the United States between the 1960-62 and 2... By apit nursing Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Comment
diet overweight How Bad is Fructose? David Despain Interviews Dr. John Sievenpiper In my article " Is Sugar Fattening? ", I discussed a recent review paper on fructose, by Dr. John Sievenpiper and colleagues ( 1 )... By apit nursing Monday, May 28, 2012 Comment
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diet evolution native diet paleolithic diet Beyond Ötzi: European Evolutionary History and its Relevance to Diet. Part II In previous posts, I described how Otzi was (at least in large part) a genetic descendant of Middle Eastern agriculturalists, rather than be... By apit nursing Monday, May 7, 2012 Comment
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diet evolution native diet paleolithic diet Lessons From Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Part III There are two reasons why I chose this time to write about Otzi. The first is that I've been looking for a good excuse to revisit human... By apit nursing Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Comment
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diet Food reward overweight Exercise and Food Intake The New York Times just published an article reviewing some of the recent research on exercise, food intake and food reward, titled " D... By apit nursing Monday, April 16, 2012 Comment
diet disease genetics native diet Lessons From Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Part I This is Otzi, or at least a reconstruction of what he might have looked like. 5,300 years ago, he laid down on a glacier near the border be... By apit nursing Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Comment
diet Global Meat Production, 1961-2009 Total global meat production per person has steadily increased from 0.13 lbs per day in 1961 to 0.29 lbs per day in 2009*, a 120 percent inc... By apit nursing Friday, April 6, 2012 Comment
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diet Food reward hyperphagia overweight superstimuli Palatability, Satiety and Calorie Intake WHS reader Paul Hagerty recently sent me a very interesting paper titled "A Satiety Index of Common Foods", by Dr. SHA Holt and co... By apit nursing Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Comment