Eatology
Are We Carb-loading or Binge Eating?
I remember decades ago when I first started running and someone told me about a pre-race spaghetti dinner. I knew I’d found my sport. It …
Ammi Midstokke: What Our Hormones Tell Us
Hormones. We like them, or at least we would if we knew what they were up to all day long. These little couriers of cause …
New Years and the Neurology of Change
Right around now, my phone starts ringing with the calls of highly-motivated people who want to undo eleven months of damage in one month. That’s …
BCAAs: Nutrition Witchcraft or Food Science?
Eating has become an overwhelmingly involved practice these days. From determining whether or not we should avoid gluten, dairy, red meat, and salt, to secret …
Is [Insert Random Food] Bad for Me?
Yes. Totally. That random food that you think is the sole culprit for your particular condition (tight jeans, dribbling nose, fatigue, divorce) is absolutely, unequivocally, …
The Beverage Market as a Gateway Drug
Both times I’ve consumed energy drinks rank highly in my poor judgment hall-of-fame, right up there with the time in college I dated a guy …
Shame on Science and the Skinny, Faster, Smarter Pill
There is a phenomenon in journalism where a fascinating scientific study gets blown out of proportion. For example, many studies show that consumption of collagen …
Foodphobia: Why Your Friends Don’t Cook for You
People generally want to be good and generous. I know this truth because when they invite me over, they say kind things like, “Is there …
What Goes in Must Come Out
Let’s just begin by addressing the reality that I never thought I would grow up to be a professional analyzer of poop. In fact, when …