Vitamin D: It's Not Just Another Vitamin

If I described a substance with the following properties, what would you guess it was? - It's synthesized by the body from cholesterol -...

DART: Many Lessons Learned

The Diet and Reinfarction Trial (DART), published in 1989, is one of the most interesting clinical trials I've had the pleasure to read ...

We're Starting to Get It

I just read an interesting post on the Food is Love blog. According to the USDA (admittedly not always the most reliable source of accurat...

One Last Thought

In Dr. Lindeberg's paleolithic diet trial, subjects began with ischemic heart disease, and glucose intolerance or type II diabetes. By ...

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part II

There were a number of remarkable changes in both trials. I'll focus mostly on Dr. Lindeberg's trial because it was longer and bett...

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials

If Dr. Ancel Keys (of diet-heart hypothesis fame) had been a proponent of "paleolithic nutrition", we would have numerous large i...

Acne Anecdotes

Thanks for all the interesting comments on the last post. Here are some highlights: Methuselah : I had bad acne as a teenager and although ...