A 95 years old psychology article holds the key to solving the obesity epidemic. It's not about a long forgotten medicine or an ancient psycho-trick. It's a simple observation about the dynamics of feeding. Vindicated by neurohormonal research, here is what it means to your struggle with extra pounds.
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Our best bet for healthy aging is to escape the flawed health care system. It makes disease treatment more profitable than prevention. It neglects aging as a treatable cause of diseases. And it denies access to personalized lifestyle medicine. This blog is about how you can overcome these limitations. It is about challenging half-truths and outdated ideas. It is focused on evidence-based, personalized lifestyle medicine for lifelong health. Delivered by a feisty public health scientist.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
The Truth About The Genetics Of Obesity.
Evolutionary selection favored those who became fat easily. That's the essence of the "thrifty gene hypothesis". It's like Madonna. On the wrong side of 50, and ripe to be dethroned by something with greater sex appeal. In this case the contender's name is the "drifty gene hypothesis". Here is why you shouldn't be too dazzled about it.
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Exactly 50 years ago, Neel suggested that the high rate of diabetes in our society is the result of evolutionary selection which favored those of our ancestors whose genes made them store fat more efficiently during periods of food abundance [1]. It's such a marvelously simple explanation that it doesn't take the brains of an Einstein to chatter about it at any dinner party where one wants to be remembered as quite the hobby geneticist. But to every party there is a party pooper. In this case two of them. John R. Speakman and Klaas R. Westerterp are telling us that the high prevalence rate of obesity and diabetes actually disproves the thrifty gene hypothesis [2].
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Monday, August 6, 2012
What Infants Teach Us About Preventing Obesity.
Public health has been telling you for years: you are fat because you move too little and eat too much. And yes, it's your fault if you don't break a sweat every day to keep your waist line in check. But research says, that's not the entire truth. In fact, public health might have taken the easy way out, and here is how it could finally make amends.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Why Medicine Might Be Wrong About Salt, Fat & BMI
Salt and fat kill you early, and your BMI tells you how early. That has been the wisdom for years, but wisdoms have an expiry date, too. Particularly medical wisdoms. Recent research says those three are probably well beyond their use-by date.
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We live in interesting times. Admitted, my view of times is myopic, it's focused on the biomedical. So, I'm obviously not referring to Greece teetering on the economic brink. In biomedicine our Greeks are the cherished wisdoms about salt, fat and BMI. Similarity 1: They are not doing so well. Similarity 2: Their balance sheet screams bankruptcy. Similarity 3: Our authorities won't kick them out for fear of a domino effect.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
How The Media Monkeys Get You Panicked About Sitting Too Long!
From "man is made to move" to "man is not made to sit" is a very recent transition of scientific insight. Let's get our readers panicked over more than not doing exercise, is the response of the media. Here is why you should sit down and get the facts straight before jumping up in fear.
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