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How to make white rice nutritious

One of the problems often pointed out about rice, and particularly about white rice, is that its nutrition content is fairly…

Jun 4, 2012

Rice consumption and health

Carbohydrate-rich foods lead to the formation of blood sugars after digestion (e.g., glucose, fructose), which are then used…

May 21, 2012

The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: The “protective” effect of smoking

In a previous post ( ) I used WarpPLS ( ) to analyze the model below, using data reported in a recent study looking at the r…

May 7, 2012

Hunger is your best friend: It makes natural foods taste delicious and promotes optimal nutrient partitioning

One of the biggest problems with modern diets rich in industrial foods is that they promote unnatural hunger patterns. For e…

Apr 23, 2012

Hormonal reductionism is as myopic as biochemical reductionism

Biochemistry-based arguments can be very misleading. Yet, biochemistry can be extremely useful in the elucidation of diet an…

Apr 16, 2012

If your NEAT is low, maybe you should chill

I wrote most of this post a while ago, and then forgot about it. The recent blogosphere storm of comments regarding cold-in…

Apr 7, 2012

The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: Eating 234 g/d of red meat could reduce mortality by 23 percent

As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s pr…

Apr 2, 2012

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