What if we’ve been upside down on obesity?
You know how you have specific areas on your tongue for different tastes? Bitter at the back, party in the front sweet in the front. The problem is the tongue doesn’t taste that way. In the 1940s a...
View ArticleFinancial payments, not science, driving diet recommendations
Grab a paddle everyone! The tides are a ‘changin! Together we can right the proverbial food and nutrition ship—a ship that has been powered for decades now by special interests. Extending the sea-going...
View ArticleExtra Credit, March 3
Extra Credit, March 3 Colleen McCullough, world-famous author of The Thorn Birds and other books, as well as a talented research scientist, passed away recently. Her obituary in the Australian noted in...
View ArticleRejecting ‘The myth of high-protein diets’
Americans have been made sick by our dietary guidelines for almost four decades. The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Committee’s recent small attempt—baby steps, really—to remedy the wrongs of the past in the...
View ArticlePutting the devil diabetes behind me
After a year of following a ketogenic diet, I achieved two personal records last week (or PRs, as the running cool kids call them). The first was from a 5K race in which I beat my previous time by 10...
View Article‘Smash the Fat’ interviews Dr. Sarah on reversing Type 2 diabetes
More on reversing Type 2 diabetes (plus, Sam has a very charming British accent). Like it? Share it!
View ArticleTutor Session—How carbs become fat + The myth of the Asian paradox
In this Tutoring Session, Dr. Sarah responds to questions about how carbs become fat, and why Asian individuals don’t have widespread issues with diabetes and obesity despite eating large amounts of...
View ArticleBMJ sports medicine blog on exercise and diet
The BMJ (formerly The British Medical Journal) has a sport medicine blog, and they addressed recent research which showed that exercise alone is insufficient for losing weight (although the study’s...
View ArticleExtra Credit, June 23, 2015
They’re from the government, and they’re here to help [special interests] Who exactly are our federal agencies protecting? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently banned (or more correctly,...
View ArticleTutor Session—Metabolic Syndrome
In this week’s Tutor Session with Dr. Sarah, she explains metabolic syndrome and the one way to alleviate its many facets. Dr. Sarah’s metabolic syndrome tree illustration: Like it? Share it!
View ArticleIt’s our anniversary!
One short year ago we launched this blog to combat what we viewed as a carnival of buncombe surrounding information about weight loss. In some ways it’s been successful beyond anything we imagined....
View ArticleFree lecture on Type 2 diabetes Sunday
If you are curious about Dr. Sarah and her approach to treating Type 2 diabetes, you have three new opportunities to learn more. First, this Sunday, September 13, Dr. Sarah will give a free lecture on...
View ArticleResolving or preventing Type 2 diabetes
A lecture by Dr. Sarah presented Sunday, September 13, 2015, at IU Arnett Hospital in Lafayette, Indiana. Like it? Share it!
View ArticleKidney Disease and the Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet
In this week’s Tutor Session, Dr. Sarah discusses the effects of the low-carb, high-fat diet on kidney disease. Like it? Share it!
View ArticleA Concern About a Concern
A Concern about Concern? How did we get here? At what point did we shift into a reality where raising a concern and questioning a process became grounds for a bitter attack? I don’t have the answer...
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