The Simple Scientific Cause of the Obesity Epidemic
“[Governmental] dietary guidelines necessarily are political compromises between what science tells us about nutrition and health and what is good for the food industry.” – M. Nestle, New York University
As our knowledge of the human body becomes ever more exact, scientists have made remarkable leaps forward in many fields. We have completed the study of the human genome. We can combat horrible diseases such as childhood leukemia with terrific success rates. Yet for one question that many of us would like answered—what foods boost health and help burn fat long-term?—we find all sorts of confusing claims. Since we know so much about how our body works, can’t science tell us the answer?
As it turns out, science already has, and it is surprisingly simple: Read more
Scientific Fact: Overeating Is Not The Cause Of Obesity
“Saying that obesity is caused by eating too much is like saying that allergies are caused by breathing too much.” – Jonathan Bailor
What Diet Related Disease is 100,000% More Common Today Than A Century Ago?
Type 2 diabetes/prediabetes. But what exactly is it and what can be done about it?
If left untreated, insulin resistance turns into type 2 diabetes. To quickly understand type 2 diabetes, let’s go back to the example of the clogged sink. Type 2 diabetes is like running water into a clogged sink for so long that water overflows all over the place and the faucet breaks down. Once so much insulin is produced that it is overflowing our bloodstream while our ability to produce insulin has broken down, we have type 2 diabetes. Read more
Scientific Fact: Eating Less Is Harmful and Doesn’t Lead To Lasting Fat Loss
While researching weight loss, University of Wisconsin researchers R.E. Keesey and M.D. Hirvonen discovered that “metabolism declines by an amount significantly in excess of that expected from the loss in metabolically active tissue. We have observed a drop of 24.6% in daily resting energy expenditure when the body weight of rats was reduced (by caloric restriction) by 14.9%.” Read more
Forks Over Knives and The China Study’s T. Colin Campell Chats with The Smarter Science of Slim’s Jonathan Bailor
T. Colin Campell (from Forks Over Knives and The China Study) and I recently had a conversation on a public Amazon discussion board. Our chat started a bit rocky, but then became quite useful. Read more
How to Avoid Starving and Gaining Fat Simultaneously
In the last post we defined a hormonally horrible condition known as internal starvation. Let’s look at a simplified example of how this works. Read more
Simple Science: How Excess Insulin Makes Us Fat
“…obesity is impossible in the absence of adequate tissue concentrations of insulin.” – M. Goldberg, in Journal of the American Medical Association
In the last post we touched on how hormones control the metabolic conversation that determines if we are storing or burning body fat. Let’s now dig into the hormone insulin’s role in this conversation as it is known in scientific circles as, “The most important hormonal factor influencing lipogenesis [body fat creation].” Read more
How Hormones Help Store or Burn Body Fat
In the last post we covered the importance of healing our hormones rather than starving ourselves or spending hours on stair-steppers. Now let’s start to dig into why focusing on hormones instead of calories in and calories out is critical to solving the metabolic cause of chronic fat gain and sub-optimal health. Read more
Scientific Fact: Calories Are Not All That Matter… Hormones Matter Too
“The ‘classical theory’ that fat is deposited in the adipose tissue [body fat] only when given in excess of the caloric requirement is finally disproved.”– E. Wertheimer, in Physiological Reviews
Simple Science: How Body Fat Gets Created
With last week’s post talking about calories being more or less Efficient at being stored as body fat, it is worth quickly covering how body fat gets created. Read more
