Sleep Post Correction

An astute commenter pointed out that I misread the numbers in the paper on sleep and fat loss. I wrote that out of the total 3.0 kg lost, t...

The Big Sleep

This blog usually focuses on diet, because that's my specialty. But if you want Whole Health, you need the whole package: a diet and l...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part III

Potato-eating Cultures: the Quechua The potato is thought to have originated in what is now Peru, on the shores of lake Titicaca. Native ...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part II

Glycoalkaloids in Commonly Eaten Potatoes Like many edible plants, potatoes contain substances designed to protect them from marauding crea...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part I

Potatoes: an Introduction Over 10,000 years ago, on the shores of lake Titicaca in what is now Peru, a culture began to cultivate a species ...

Dogen Zenji on Nutritionism

Dogen Zenji was the man who brought the Soto lineage of Zen Buddhism to Japan. He was a prolific writer, and many of his texts are respecte...

The China Study on Wheat

Denise Minger has just put up another great China Study post that's worth reading if you haven't already. Denise has been busy app...