I know. I am obsessed with the Harvard School of Public Health. In this podcast, they attempt to clear up the confusion over fat: www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/podcast-diet-fat/ Here’s the gist of it. In the past seven or eight years, there has been some sensational news reported in the popular press about supposed breakthroughs in nutrition. Things like…

Debates about the consumption of animal proteins usually arrive at a point where the meat advocate claims that the real issue is how the animals are raised. If one would just choose grass-fed beef and pastured lamb, all would be good. Unfortunately, that flies in the face of the massive amount of research showing saturated…

Researchers have discovered that despite meat-heavy diets, low levels of good cholesterol and high levels of inflammation, an indigenous South American tribe has the healthiest hearts ever examined — and it might have something to do with parasites in the gut. Read on asunow.asu.edu/20170317-discoveries-despite-meat-heavy-diet-indigenous-tribe-has-world’s-healthiest-hearts-—-why Something to keep in mind is that while these hunters have…

During my review of the existing scientific literature on nutrition, health, and longevity, I’ve been overwhelmingly convinced that a diet that is mostly vegan with small amounts of appropriately raised fish and eggs is best in the long term for a large majority of people (although I will concede that the number of outliers could…

I am a big fan of Dr. Valter Longo. If you read here regularly, you may notice I mention his name frequently. I came across his Daily Longevity Diet for Adults at valterlongo.com/daily-longevity-diet-for-adults/. The reason I have the upmost respect for Dr. Longo is because he applies his five pillars model to assessing all nutritional…

Many readers are probably aware that the Seventh-day Adventists of Loma Linda, California are considered a blue-zone group. This means that they have one of the largest clusters in the world of people who live to a ripe old age with minimal debility. Seventh-day Adventists, as a rule, do not smoke or drink. This immediately…

It seems like every morning I wake up to another article telling me to avoid certain allegedly inflammation-causing foods. An important to always keep in mind is who is writing the article. If the person writing the article is not either a scientist who specializes in human health or a fully trained primary care medical…

Very interesting series of posts from a health and fitness enthusiast who ran some pretty rigorous self experiments recently. I reviewed his comparison of the outcomes of a carnivore versus a vegan diet. I know he also has an article on the keto diet, which I have not reviewed yet. It’s a remarkably honest appraisal…

The topic of excess deaths has been reported by a variety of new sources. This is a fairly recent analysis by the BBC (June 17): From https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53073046: A review of preliminary mortality data from 27 countries shows that in many places the number of overall deaths during the pandemic has been higher than normal, even…

I’ve been reading a lot of articles from the website of the Harvard school of public health recently. I have become more and more convinced that a lot of the information being promulgated in the optimal health and peak performance blogosphere is inaccurate. It keeps coming back to the same thing. People without proper training…