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Stephan Guyenet coming on the podcast – submit your questions!

May 4, 2011 in Events, Classes & Groups | 46 comments

Dr. Stephan Guyenet will be joining us again on the podcast to discuss his developing theories on obesity and weight regulation. Stephan is a researcher at the University of Washington studying the neurobiology of fat regulation. He also writes one of my favorite blogs on nutrition and health, Whole Health Source.If you have not already, I recommend you listen to my first podcast with Stephan. This show will build on material we discussed during ...
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Breakfast of champions (with 88 grams of fat!)

December 17, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Myths & Truths | 50 comments

A friend of mine was observing me making my breakfast the other day. She's been hip to the dangers of low-fat diets and the benefits of saturated fat for some time now, but even so she was pretty surprised with just how much fat I was plowing into my smoothie. We thought it might be fun to actually measure the amount and do a full nutritional analysis on my breakfast.Here's the recipe:1.5 ...
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Low-carb diet best for weight loss

July 16, 2008 in Food & Nutrition, Myths & Truths | 8 comments

A study was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 17th comparing the effectiveness and safety of three different weight loss diets. 322 moderately obese subjects were assigned to one of three diets: low-fat, restricted-calorie; Mediterranean, restricted-calorie; or low-carbohydrate, non-restricted calorie.The rate of adherence to the study diet was 95% at year one and 85% at year two. Among the 272 participants who completed the intervention, the mean weight losses were ...
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