Favorite Articles of the Moment
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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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In Part I and Part II of this series, I established the following: (Skip to Part IV.)
Hunger is not a singular motivation: it is the interaction of several different clinically measurable, provably distinct mental and physical processes. In a properly functioning human animal, likes and wants coincide; satiation is an [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Restrained Eating: Willpower and Why Diets Fail (Why Are We Hungry? Part III)”
Part I of this series clearly establishes the following, which I hope is non-controversial:
Hunger is not a singular motivation: it is the interaction of several different clinically measurable, provably distinct mental and physical processes.
This is intuitively obvious to everyone: hunger is not a generic drive, satisfiable by shoving a generic substance [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Why Are We Hungry? Part II: Hunger Is The Product Of Multiple Perceptions And Motivations, Sometimes Conflicting”
(This is a multi-part series: click here for the index.)
It is the 21st century. We have telephones that fit in a watch pocket, we can sequence the genetic code of life itself, and we can sift the accumulated knowledge of centuries in fractions of a second using Internet search engines. Yet we [ . . . ]
⇒ Continue reading “Why Are We Hungry? Part I: What Is Hunger? Liking Vs. Wanting, Satiation Vs. Satiety”
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