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Book Review: The Perfect Health Diet by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Well, this is a partial review of the book, "The Perfect Health Diet" only because someone else said exactly what I was going to. In the book, the authors recommen ... Read on »

Coconut Oil and Alzheimer's Disease by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This video is from some religous network, but I thought the content was very interesting. They discuss how the ketones generated from coconut oil can hel ... Read on »

Exercise Increases Food Reward? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This study shows how exercise may actually work against some people trying to lose weight. In the "non-responder" group, exercise increased the desire for high-fat/high-s ... Read on »

Enjoying Nature by Matt M. Patient Expert

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Eating in Front of the Computer by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In this study , eating lunch in front of the computer led to negative outcomes. Subjects again ate more later in the day. "Distracted individuals were less full aft ... Read on »

Eating in Front of the Television by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Following up on the last post, this study shows that eating in front of the tv leads to problems as well. One group ate lunch in front of the tv while the other did not ... Read on »

Death by Television by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I saw a newer study on television time and mortality. Here is the frightening conclusion: "On average, every single hour of TV viewed after the age of 25 reduces th ... Read on »

Fat and Sugar II by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I got a hold of that paper I mentioned a few days ago, and it's a dandy. It shows how the increase in added fats and sugars parallels the rise in obesity. The articl ... Read on »

Food Consumption in America by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I've been reading through a USDA publication, " Profiling Food Consumption in America(pdf) ". It shows the general increase in food consumption over the past 50 years. ... Read on »

Fat Sensitivity by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I thought this looked like an interesting study . It shows how different people are either hyper or hypo-sensitive to fat intake. From the abstract: "Hyposensitive ... Read on »

Fat and Sugar by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I'm waiting to get the full-text of this article , "Why Has the BMI Gone Up So Drastically in the Last 35 Years?", that looks promising. From the abstract: "The add ... Read on »

Carb Intake in Healthy Centenarians by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was looking through an interesting study on Korean centenarians today. The full-text is here(pdf) . Here is table showing the nutritional intake: ... Read on »

Paleo is Getting Popular by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When I was presenting at that conference last week, I couldn't resist: I asked the audience if anyone had hear of the Paleo diet. When I did this last year at a confere ... Read on »

Your Brain on Porn by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There's an interesting website out there, " Your Brain on Porn ". What's neat about this website is that they look at internet pornography from an evolutionary perspect ... Read on »

Sugar-Free by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I read an older article about NBA player Steve Nash going sugar-free. As expected, he gained energy and other benefits from kicking his habit. One quote in the arti ... Read on »

Vancouver Art Gallery by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I really don't like writing negative posts, but I must say the Vancouver Art Gallery was probably the worst museum I've ever visited. It almost seemed like it was some ... Read on »

Back from Vancouver by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I'm back from a conference in Vancouver. It was a sustainability conference where I was one of the presenters. My presentation was based on a paper that just got accep ... Read on »

White Rock British Columbia by Matt M. Patient Expert

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Primitive Patterns by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I saw an article about NBA player Pau Gasol using "primitive patterns" in Sports Illustrated. The idea is to use rolling and infant-like moves to strengthen the core. ... Read on »

Artificial Sweeteners Don't Work by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The title of this post may be common knowledge to some, but I am putting it out there for more notice. I saw a guy at the grocery store today loading up his cart with s ... Read on »

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