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The Paleo Diet claims that beans and lentils should be excluded from the diet because they contain antinutrients. It is obvious that no one claiming this has done a simple "Google scholar" search using the key word "antinutrient", because if they did they would find out the potential problem is compounds called lectins, and doing a search for "lectins" takes you to research papers showing that cooking eliminates the lectins.

"Few principles are more fundamental to the scientific and ethical validity of clinical research than that studies should address questions needing to be answered, and that they are designed in a way that will produce a meaningful answer.  A prerequisite

This article (click image to enlarge; Br J Sports Med, 15 Dec 2010, epub ahead of print) shows that faster marathoners tend to drink less than slower marathoners when racing, but that fluid intake is all over the map, with high and

Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan has said that being a better citizen of the world in the 21st century "requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions, rather than be captive of them". I would argue that the same is true for us to improve how we take care of ourselves. Ignoring our survival instinct for sugar, fats, and satiety leads to thinking that at the New Year or some other tortured moment in our lives we can simply start eating healthier.

Most of the trans fats in the American diet come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.  They are created by man to increase shelf life, and they are much worse for us than saturated fats.  On the other hand, trans fats produced naturally by bacteria in the rumen of ruminants (like cows) have never been linked to increased disease, and one has now actually been correlated to reduced disease risk (click on image to see reference): trans-palmitoleate in meat and dairy, primarily milk.  Since polyunsat

A recent study (click it to enlarge the image) showed that your metabolism is higher, so you burn more body fat, while on a Holiday diet (high-calorie and high-fat) if you exercise in the morning before eating anything.  Sounds great until you look at the details of how the study was done.  The researchers compared people exercising that either had not eaten or that had spiked their blood sugar with 675 Cal of carbohydrate at breakfast and then gorged on 200 Cal of sugar per hour during the exercise.  E

4 days ago an amazing piece of research came out in Science [v330, p1530].  After imagining eating 30 pieces of candy, unrestricted candy consumption was cut to nearly half.  After imagining eating cheese, unrestricted consumption of che

It was shown in 2005 (Science, vol 307, p 584; click left image to enlarge) that leisurly standing or walking twice as much as sitting in your day burns 350 more calories.  For the people in the study, those that moved the most had 5

Highly purified and concentrated fish oil supplementation during pregnancy has been proven ineffective for reducing post-partem depression or increasing the child's later cognitive abilities

Sally Davies has been taking daily photos of a Happy Meal she purchased over a half year.  Its appearance has barely changed, although it is now hard as a rock.  The New York photographer started the project when a friend of hers told her someone had kept a Hap