Humans on a Cafeteria Diet

In the 1970s, as the modern obesity epidemic was just getting started, investigators were searching for new animal models of diet-induced ob...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization

In his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Dr. Weston Price documented the abnormal dental development and susceptibility to too...

A Little Tidbit

I'm gearing up for a new series of posts based on some fascinating reading I've been doing lately. I'm not going to spill the b...

Water for the Pima

A few months ago, I published a post about the Pima Indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona. The Pima are one of the most heart-wrenching ...

Two Things that Get on My Nerves, Part I

The "Thrifty Gene" Hypothesis The thrifty gene hypothesis is the darling of many obesity researchers. It was proposed in 1962 by ...

Lessons From the Pima Indians

At 38% and climbing in 2006, the Pima indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona have the highest rate of diabetes of any population in the wor...

Genetics and Disease

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role of genetics in health. It seems like every day the media have a new story about gene X or ...