If we want to understand the accumulation of excess body fat, it's tempting to focus our attention on the location that defines the cond...

You've heard the story before: when you eat carbohydrate-rich foods that digest quickly, it sends your blood sugar and insulin levels so...

It's no secret that I'm an avid food gardener.  In the last two years, I've moved from exclusively growing vegetables to growing...

In January of this year, I handed in a complete manuscript draft of my first book,  The Hungry Brain , to my editor at Flatiron Books .  Thi...

A new metabolic ward study tests the idea that lowering insulin via severe carbohydrate restriction increases metabolic rate and accelerates...

The "obesity paradox" is the observation that people with higher fat mass sometimes have better health outcomes than lean people, ...

Warning: this post will be a bit more wonkish than usual, because I need to get detailed to make my points.   To read a summary, skip to the...