Pursuit Happyness

We can measure the nutrient and toxin content of a food, and debate the health effects of each of its constituents until we’re out of breath. But in the end, we still won’t have a very accurate prediction of the health effects of that food. The question we need to answer is this one: has this food sustained healthy traditional cultures? I’m currently reading a great book edited by Drs. Hugh Trowell and Denis Burkitt, titled Western Diseases: Their Emergence and Prevention. It’s a compilation Read more [...]

A new study was recently published exploring the effect of diet composition on insulin sensitivity and other factors in humans (1). 29 men with metabolic syndrome– including abdominal obesity, low HDL, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and high fasting glucose– were fed one of four diets for 12 weeks: A diet containing 38% fat: 16% saturated (SFA), 12% monounsaturated (MUFA) and 6% polyunsaturated (PUFA) A diet containing 38% fat: 8% SFA, 20% MUFA and 6% PUFA A diet high in unrefined Read more [...]