The Risks and Benefits of Mindfulness for Weight Loss
Contrary to popular perception, the evidence for even the most well-founded benefits of mindfulness meditation is not entirely conclusive.
All Videos for Weight Gain
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Mindful Eating vs. Cognitive Defusion for Food Cravings
Of all the mindfulness skills, cognitive defusion appears to be the most effective, simple, and efficient approach to manage food cravings.
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Is Six Hours of Sleep Enough?
Just because we don’t have evidence that there is a growing epidemic of sleep deprivation doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting enough sleep.
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Update on Erythritol Sweetener Safety: Are There Side Effects?
Why are erythritol levels in the blood associated with higher levels of chronic disease?
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Oatmeal Diet Put to the Test for Diabetes Treatment
What are the extraordinary, lasting benefits we may get from a few days of an oatmeal diet?
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Does Getting Enough Sleep Help You Lose Weight?
Even getting just one more hour of sleep a night may help with weight control.
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Does Lack of Sleep Cause You to Gain Weight?
Those randomized to 8.5 hours of sleep a night lost significantly more body fat than those who got 5.5 hours.
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Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test
What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
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Exploiting Sensory-Specific Satiety for Weight Loss
How can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage?
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How Variation Can Trump Sensation and Lead to Overeating
Big Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us.
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Foods Designed to Hijack Our Appetites
I debunk the myth of protein as the most satiating macronutrient.
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200-Pound Weight Loss Without Hunger
I dive into one of the most fascinating series of studies I’ve ever come across.
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Benefits of Black Cumin Seed (Nigella Sativa) for Weight Loss
For three cents a day, black cumin may improve cholesterol and triglyceride levels, blood pressure, and blood sugar control, as well as accelerate the loss of body fat.
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What’s the Ideal Waist Size?
Increased risk of metabolic complications starts at an abdominal circumference of 31.5 inches in women and 37 inches in most men, though it’s closer to 35.5 inches for South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese men.
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What’s the Ideal BMI?
Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?
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Is the Obesity Paradox Real or a Myth?
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?
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The Effects of Obesity on the Immune System and Kidney and Liver Diseases
What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line of immune defense against cancer, as well as kidney function and fatty liver disease?
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The Effects of Obesity on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Cardiovascular Disease
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.
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The Effects of Obesity on Dementia, Brain Function, and Fertility
Weight loss can decrease dementia risk and improve mental performance and infertility.
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The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
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The Best Knee Replacement Alternative for Osteoarthritis Treatment
Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?
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Are There Benefits of Pole Walking for Weight Loss?
Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic walking (“exerstriding”), beat our regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?
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The Efficacy and Safety of Creatine for High Homocysteine
Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.
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The Role of the Toxic Food Environment in the Obesity Epidemic
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.
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The Role of Corporate Influence in the Obesity Epidemic
Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal: maximize the irresistibility of their products.
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The Role of Personal Responsibility in the Obesity Epidemic
How the power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls.
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The Role of Food Advertisements in the Obesity Epidemic
We all like to think we make important life decisions like what to eat consciously and rationally, but if that were the case we wouldn’t be in the midst of an obesity epidemic.
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The Role of Marketing in the Obesity Epidemic
The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic.
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The Role of Taxpayer Subsidies in the Obesity Epidemic
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
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The Role of Processed Foods in the Obesity Epidemic
The rise in the U.S. calorie supply responsible for the obesity epidemic wasn’t just about more food but a different kind of food.
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Cut the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of foods, but only within the natural range.
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The Thrifty Gene Theory: Survival of the Fattest
Rather than being some kind of disorder or failure of willpower, weight gain is largely a normal response, by normal people, to an abnormal situation.
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The Role of Genes in the Obesity Epidemic
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
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The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic
The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.
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Effects of Marijuana on Weight Gain and Bone Density
Are the apparent adverse effects of heavy cannabis use on bone just due to users being skinnier?
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Why People Gain Weight in the Fall
A list of “specific recommendations for the prevention of obesity by improving the circadian system health.”
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Shedding Light on Shedding Weight
Randomized, controlled trials of phototherapy (morning bright light) for weight loss.
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The Metabolic Harms of Night Shifts and Irregular Meals
What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.
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How Circadian Rhythms Affect Blood Sugar Levels
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
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Eat More Calories in the Morning than the Evening
Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening?
