By W/outAds Monday, November 28, 2016 Instant Pot pressure cookers on deep sale today I've written twice before about the Instant Pot, an electronic pressure cooker that helps make healthy food in a time-efficient manner (...
By W/outAds Wednesday, November 23, 2016 This is your brain on pumpkin pie Image credit: Evan Amos Thanksgiving is a special time in the United States when we gather our loved ones and celebrate the abundance of fal...
By W/outAds Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Did the US Dietary Guidelines Cause the Obesity Epidemic? A popular argument holds that the US Dietary Guidelines caused our obesity epidemic by advising Americans to reduce fat intake. Does the ev...
By W/outAds Friday, September 30, 2016 Cars as a metaphor for understanding obesity If we want to understand the accumulation of excess body fat, it's tempting to focus our attention on the location that defines the cond...
By W/outAds Friday, September 16, 2016 Do Blood Glucose Levels Affect Hunger and Satiety? You've heard the story before: when you eat carbohydrate-rich foods that digest quickly, it sends your blood sugar and insulin levels so...
By W/outAds Friday, July 22, 2016 The most slimming tortillas in the world It's no secret that I'm an avid food gardener. In the last two years, I've moved from exclusively growing vegetables to growing...
By W/outAds Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The Hungry Brain: Book Update In January of this year, I handed in a complete manuscript draft of my first book, The Hungry Brain , to my editor at Flatiron Books . Thi...