Archive for May, 2009
Semi-Starvation Diets
Ancel Keys’s and Francis Benedicts’ starvation experiments were the most meticulous ever performed studying the effects on body and mind of long-term reduced-calorie diets and weight reduction. I always cringe when I see people doing low calorie diets. However, as we’ll see later, as long as those diets are high in fat and moderate in [...]
Fattening Contradictions
Fattening occurs in many species of our world but there is always a purpose. There are long distance migrations, reproduction or survival during periods when food is either unavailable or too risky to procure. Hibernators are an obvious choice to shed light on the assumptions underlying the thrifty-gene hypothesis. Hibernators have fat tissue that responds [...]
In: Obesity, Populations
Running with Charles
I was too lazy to write a blog post today, so I decided to share this video with you that I shared with my discussion forum. This is only my third video ever so cut me some slack. If you are a runner and you are interested in improving your efficiency and running technique, then [...]
Fat Hunger among the Papuans
In the book, Not by Bread Along Vilhjalmur Stefansson discusses the concept of “fat hunger” and how destructive it can be in a society. As shall be shown in subsequent pages, one longs for fat intensely if there is too little of it, and is promptly satiated when he has had enough. However, really intense [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Populations
More Thrifty Gene
Just few years before James Neel publicly rejected his own hypothesis, obesity researchers begin invoking thrifty genes as the reason why putting on so much weight seems so much easier than losing it. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University was the first to do it, using noteworthy logic to do so. We eat during the day [...]
In: Anthropology, Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Populations
