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What are the obesity hypotheses? Which hypothesis do you subscribe to?
What are the obesity hypotheses, who are the proponents/authors and optionally what are their best works on the subject? Which hypothesis/hypotheses do you subscribe to?
Compiled …
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Can Taubes and Guyenet both be right?
Check me here.
Taubes proposed that carbs cause chronically high insulin levels; this ultimately causes insulin resistance and diabetes/metabolic syndrome (and associated obesity …
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An Inconvenient Truth #1: Does low-carb “work” simply because packaged foods are high-carb?
Have you been following the great carb debate?
This debate has elicited excellent opinions from Stephan Guyenet, Peter at Hyperlipid, and Kurt Harris. In a nutshell, they discuss …
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30 day challenge question
I'm thinking about doing a Robb Wolf "thirty day challenge" since I've never actually done one before, this is despite eating "paleo" for over a year. I also want to include some S …
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Food Reward hacks?
What are your go to Food Reward food items as well as tips and tricks?
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So… Macronutrients don’t matter anymore?
Here's my understanding of current expert opinions on the subject of macronutrients:
KGH -- They don't matter -- you can use either starch or fat for fuel, as long as you stay aw …
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Can Gary Taubes fix science? Does it need to be fixed?
http://www.garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ancestral-health-symposium-food-reward-palatability-insulin-signaling-carbohydrates-kettles-pots-other-odds-ends-part-i/
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