Evolving Health

I remember when I first learned that a rabbit ate its food twice . This curious dietary practice, called coprophagy, is something I...

You've heard the rants about Mitt Monsanto versus Organic Obama. You've read the arguments on both sides for "Yes" or ...

Plants with larger root systems take up minerals more easily. Plants these days. They're coddled, entitled, fed with a silver spoon....

I get regular requests from people who want to guest post on my blog. Then, I got this unbelievable one yesterday. More unbelievable was ...

As the fructose debate rages on, one serious concern has been what the message should be for people who have diabetes. There's no questi...

by Amanda Jensen*  Losing weight is an ambition with no end. To get fit, live longer, reduce injury, look better, feel better and sleep b...

If you've been following this blog, then you're probably aware that back in April I blogged about a highly attended debate at Experi...

Natural selection granted us large brains. The evolutionary cost is having to feed them. The human brain's high-energy demands led to de...

Gary Taubes makes insulin out to be a bad guy. In his latest article in Newsweek Magazine commenting on HBO's  Weight of the Nation ...

Fructose metabolism. Ref: Tappy & Ka 2010. Sugar is a hot topic these days. Evidently, it's also a touchy topic. I've been a...

Earlier today, biologist Mary Mangan ( @mem_somerville ) shared the bad news that anti-biotechnology activists had succeeded in breaking int...

I'm a bit late in weighing into the "Sugar Makes You Stupid" mess of poor health reporting on a rat study. At the Embargo Watc...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to ...

As if we needed any more reason to pick on Body Mass Index (BMI): new research finds that this most accepted approach for assessing overweig...

With all the attention given to body fat, a result of the high prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes, skeletal muscle is often given t...

By the year 2050, the number of people in the world over 80 years old will reach 370 million. About 50 percent of adults currently 85 and ...

Workplace programs are an effective and worthwhile way for employers to help improve the health of their employees and reduce medical cost...

There is little question that nutrition provides the foundation of health and wellbeing and that research into better nutrition is central ...

Lindsay Allen Efforts to curb or eliminate vitamin and mineral deficiencies globally have existed for almost a century, although ther...

The scientific community lashed out against "sugar is toxic" sensationalism on Sunday, April 22, identifying it as a distracti...