Hello dear readers, After nine years of blogging on this platform, I've decided to move to a new website at stephanguyenet.com .  This c...

A photo Staffan sent me, showing him  weighing a Kitavan man as part of the  Kitava Study. I recently heard the sad news that Staffan Lindeb...

I've written twice before about the Instant Pot, an electronic pressure cooker that helps make healthy food in a time-efficient manner (...

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...

A popular argument holds that the US Dietary Guidelines caused our obesity epidemic by advising Americans to reduce fat intake.  Does the ev...

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...

You've heard the story before: when you eat carbohydrate-rich foods that digest quickly, it sends your blood sugar and insulin levels so...

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...

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...

A new metabolic ward study tests the idea that lowering insulin via severe carbohydrate restriction increases metabolic rate and accelerates...

The "obesity paradox" is the observation that people with higher fat mass sometimes have better health outcomes than lean people, ...

The brain is the central regulator of appetite and body fatness, and genetic variation that affects body fatness tends to act in the brain. ...

Linoleic acid (LA) is the predominant polyunsaturated fat in the human diet, and it's most concentrated in seed oils such as corn oil.  ...

Warning -- Satire -- old April Fools post! You've heard of Bulletproof Coffee , that mixture of coffee and butter that keeps you lean an...

The debate rages on over whether dietary salt (NaCl) increases the risk of cardiovascular events, with no clear answer in sight.  Yet few pe...

Examine.com is a website that provides unbiased information on supplements and nutrition.  They publish the Examine.com Research Digest (ERD...

People often ask me what I eat.  I've been reluctant to share, because it feels egocentric and I'm a private person by nature.  I al...

Over the last two decades, multiple independent research groups have come to the surprising conclusion that people with obesity (or, more co...

Dr. David Ludwig, MD, recently published a response to my critique of the carbohydrate-insulin-obesity hypothesis.  This is good because he...

David Ludwig, MD, recently published a new book titled Always Hungry? Conquer cravings, retrain your fat cells, and lose weight permanently ...