Entries by SANE

Simple Science: How Excess Insulin Makes Us Fat

“…obesity is impossible in the absence of adequate tissue concentrations of insulin.” – M. Goldberg, in Journal of the American Medical Association In the last post we touched on how hormones control the metabolic conversation that determines if we are storing or burning body fat. Let’s now dig into the hormone insulin’s role in this […]

Scientific Fact: Overeating Is Not The Cause Of Obesity

  “Saying that obesity is caused by eating too much is like saying that allergies are caused by breathing too much.” – Jonathan Bailor Commenting on his recent study at University of Colorado School of Medicine Dr. Guido Frank stated: “It is clear that in humans the brain’s reward system helps to regulate food intake…The […]

Can All Those Non-Starchy Vegetables Give Me Kidney Stones?

Catherine Britell, M.D. We love our non-starchy vegetables!  And for most of us, eating ten or more servings of non-starchy vegetables  (concentrating on the dark green ones) per day is the mainstay of a healthy diet.   If you have had kidney stones, however, you’ll need to pay attention to the oxalate contained in the […]

Calories In — Calories Out Has Been Proven False and Frustrating

  Intro: Thousands of pages of academic research prove that the three most common fat loss concepts we hear about daily (Calories In – Calories Out, A Calorie Is A Calorie, and Calories Are All That Matter) are at best misleading and at worst wrong. In this post, Jane, Beth, and Sarah show how frustrating […]