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...

The brain is the central regulator of appetite and body fatness, and genetic variation that affects body fatness tends to act in the brain. ...

Linoleic acid (LA) is the predominant polyunsaturated fat in the human diet, and it's most concentrated in seed oils such as corn oil.  ...