Favorite Articles of the Moment
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• Your life and health are your own responsibility.
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Recent Articles
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We Win! TIME Magazine Officially Recants (“Eat Butter…Don’t Blame Fat”), And Quotes Me
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What Is Hunger, and Why Are We Hungry?
J. Stanton’s AHS 2012 Presentation, Including Slides
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What Is Metabolic Flexibility, and Why Is It Important? J. Stanton’s AHS 2013 Presentation, Including Slides
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Intermittent Fasting Matters (Sometimes): There Is No Such Thing As A “Calorie” To Your Body, Part VIII
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Will You Go On A Diet, or Will You Change Your Life?
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Carbohydrates Matter, At Least At The Low End (There Is No Such Thing As A “Calorie” To Your Body, Part VII)
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Interview: J. Stanton on the LLVLC show with Jimmy Moore
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Calorie Cage Match! Sugar (Sucrose) Vs. Protein And Honey (There Is No Such Thing As A “Calorie”, Part VI)
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Book Review: “The Paleo Manifesto,” by John Durant
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My AHS 2013 Bibliography Is Online (and, Why You Should Buy An Exercise Physiology Textbook)
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Can You Really Count Calories? (Part V of “There Is No Such Thing As A Calorie”)
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Protein Matters: Yet More Peer-Reviewed Evidence That There Is No Such Thing As A “Calorie” To Your Body (Part IV)
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More Peer-Reviewed Evidence That There Is No Such Thing As A “Calorie” To Your Body
(Part III)
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The Calorie Paradox: Did Four Rice Chex Make America Fat? (Part II of “There Is No Such Thing As A Calorie”)
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Interview: J. Stanton on the “Everyday Paleo Life and Fitness” Podcast with Jason Seib
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What Is Nutritionism?
While I disagree with Gyorgy Scrinis (and the popularizer of the concept, Michael Pollan) on their proposed solution, I believe Scrinis’ concept of “nutritionism” as an error in dietary thinking has merit—and I doubt anyone in the paleo community would disagree.
“Reducing food to its nutrient components could be called [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Anti-Nutritionism, L-Canavanine, And The Limitations of N=1 Self-Experimentation”
In Part IV, we established the following:
Our ancestors’ dietary shift towards ground-based foods, and away from fruit, did not cause an increase in our ancestors’ brain size. Bipedalism was necessary to allow an increase in our ancestors’ brain size, but did not cause the increase by itself. Bipedalism allowed Australopithecus afarensis to spread [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Big Brains Require An Explanation, Part V:
Re-Orienting Ourselves In Time, and Why Are There “Southern Apes” In Ethiopia?”
Normally I’d be continuing my ongoing series on the evolutionary history of the human brain. However, there is yet another red meat scare story making the rounds—and many readers have asked me to analyze it. Should we really be eating less red meat?
I don’t like to spend my time debunking specific studies—because as [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Always Be Skeptical Of Nutrition Headlines: Or, What “Red Meat Consumption and Mortality” (Pan et.al.) Really Tells Us”
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