Things I’ve Recently Learned About Blogging
It’s been a nice break from blogging the past couple weeks, and it’s given me time to reflect on things. Here are some things I’ve learned about blogging: Blogging is semi-addictive. It seems when...
View ArticleWhat If The Internet Doesn’t Turn Out To Be That Great?
I wonder how the current usage of the internet will be viewed by future generations. I think the 2000s truly started a societal shift with the widespread adoption of the internet. Cellphones have...
View ArticleHealthy Conversations, Volume 1
Over the past few months, I came across some research illustrating how knowledge develops through dialogues. So I contacted my friends Chris Highcock from Conditioning Research and Marc Van Dam from...
View ArticlePassages
Over the last few posts, I’ve done some foreshadowing of things to come. After much thought, I have decided to hang up my blogging boots. Here are some reasons, though I am not trying to make this...
View ArticleInterview at Health Heralds
I did an interview that has just been posted over at Health Heralds. Peter and Robert are very gracious, and I appreciated the chance to interview with them.
View ArticleFrom the Sidelines
This is just a random update on things. It seems that, unfortunately, my prediction about the internet getting worse is becoming more true by the day. Stephan over at Whole Health Source had to...
View ArticleThe Value of Forgetting
I read an interesting new book, “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” this week. The book itself is really not that good, but it does make one compelling point: most information is not...
View ArticleThe Value of Forgetting II
Following up on the previous post, I am wondering how long digital content should be stored online. First, I think it would make sense if a lot of the trivial content on the web was automatically...
View ArticleGet Ready for the Fast Diet
I saw some articles on a new book, “The Fast Diet,” that has been popular in the UK. Now it has been released in the US, and it is already the #1 best seller at Amazon. I predict this diet will be...
View ArticleData to Concept
I’ve been reading a bit about “data-to-concept” models in education. The idea is to let students build models from the ground up rather than just give them the theory first. This approach has its...
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Worst Article of the Year Nominee 2013
I’m not sure what the editors over at Medium are thinking, but they somehow picked the article, “iPad Addictions and Three Year Olds“, as an editor’s pick. The article is short, so you can read...
View ArticleAre Oils Healthy?
One of my goals for this year was to look into cardiovascular disease. Along those lines, I have been looking into how refined oils affect health. This is the first of a multi-part series on oils....
View ArticleAre Oils Healthy? Part II
First, let’s establish what can happen to flow-mediated dilation after a meal. Some people seem to think that no change is a good goal, though I don’t agree. In this article, a clear difference is...
View ArticleAre Oils Healthy? Part III
Continuing on, if it appears that oils have a detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system, then why is that so? There are varying explanations, but my view is that oils are stripped of most of...
View ArticleAre Oils Healthy? Part IV
Continuing from the last post, my hypothesis was that refined oils are detrimental because they are stripped of their nutrients as compared to a whole food. If this is correct, than nuts (a high-fat...
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Are Oils Healthy? Part V
Let me now show an indirect study linking to my hypothesis. I have said that refined oils, detached from vitamins and minerals, cause oxidative stress. Now separately, there has been a lot of...
View ArticleAre Oils Healthy? Part VI
Hopefully, I have given readers something to consider in terms of refined oils. I see no evidence that refined oils are healthy, and to the contrary, there is substantial evidence that they are a...
View ArticleButter Is Not Magic
This is a follow-up to the series on refined oils. For some reason, its seems like saturated fat, and really butter in particular, has taken on the role of a health food in the Paleo community. This...
View ArticleLess Bad Is Still Not Good
Following up on previous posts, I wanted to point out how sometimes a food is positioned as being positive when it really is just “less bad” than other foods. For example, many of the...
View ArticleButter versus Olive Oil
While I’m on the subject of butter, I thought I would point out a new study showing the effects of olive oil and argan oil versus butter in young men. Subjects consumed butter for 2 weeks, and then...
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