Grains as Food: an Update

Improperly Prepared Grain Fiber can be Harmful Last year, I published a post on the Diet and Reinfarction trial (DART), a controlled trial t...

Dinner with Taubes, Eades and Hujoel

Gary Taubes gave a lecture at UW last Thursday. Thanks to all the Whole Health Source readers who showed up. Gary's talk was titled &q...

Copper in Food

Sources of Copper It isn't hard to get enough copper-- unless you live in an industrial nation. I've compiled a chart showing the c...

Interview with John Barban

I recently did a podcast interview with John Barban from the Adonis Lifestyle blog. We talked mostly about fat mass and the body fat "...

Gary Taubes Speaks this Thursday at UW

Gary Taubes will be giving a lecture this Thursday, April 15th, at the University of Washington in Seattle, titled "Why we get fat: adi...

Full-fat Dairy for Cardiovascular Health

I just saw a paper in the AJCN titled " Dairy consumption and patterns of mortality of Australian adults ". It's a prospectiv...

Copper and Cardiovascular Disease

In 1942, Dr. H. W. Bennetts dissected 21 cattle known to have died of "falling disease". This was the name given to the sudden, ...

Magnesium and Vitamin D Metabolism

Ted Hutchinson posted a link in the comments section of my last post, pointing to a page on the Vitamin D Council's website where Dr. ...

Low Vitamin D: Cause or Result of Disease?

Don Matesz at Primal Wisdom put up a post a few days ago that I think is worth reading. It follows an e-mail discussion between us concern...