May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Howdy folks, we interrupt Ray May for this highly-anticipated guest blog post by none other than Brock Cusick, frequent 180 commenter, follower since the dawn of http://180degreehealth.com/, and author of the blog http://cusickonnutrition.blogspot.com/. While we can never expect any two people to have identical views, even when those two people grew up watching the movie...
Dec 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
?The cruel irony is that although we become totally obsessed with the daily measures of how ?good? or ?bad? we are (refused dessert = good; didn’t have time to go to the gym = bad), there is no finish line. This weight preoccupation will never lead us anywhere. It is a maniacal maze that always spits you out at the same point it sucked you up:? wanting. We keep chasing after perfection as...
Sep 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
About a month ago we were having a big nerdfest about the role of dopamine in weight set point and what Seth Roberts calls the ?Flavor-Calorie Theory? of obesity ? or what I have started calling, because my coolness rating is so much higher than Seth’s, PCAT (Pleasure Center Activation Theory). But dopamine is only one of the pleasure neurotransmitters that is involved in the human...
Mar 27, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I finally got around to reading Jon Gabriel’s The Gabriel Method earlier this month. Although it might lean a little too heavily towards the meditation/positive thinking/woo-woo side of things for most, and Gabriel is more excited about flax and fish oil than Barry Sears himself, I will go out on a limb and call it one of the best weight loss books in print.It is more in...
Mar 17, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been a busy boy, posting four new videos in the past couple days. First and foremost however, is my lengthy guest post at Elizabeth Walling’s The Nourished Life more or less on the topic of leptin resistance. Please check that out. It’s a good one.As somewhat of a follow-up to that post, I did a video on leptin resistance and obesity –...
