Eatology

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The Small Changes Make a Big Difference to Your Health

  “I was just thinking, we ought to go on a cleanse,” says the septuagenarian sitting across from me with her decade older husband. I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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