A new study published on January 3rd, 2012 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation shows that eating high fat foods can damage the hypothalamus and dramatically increase inflammation in this crucial part of the brain in rodents. The hypothalamus is a part of the brain responsible for maintaining homeostasis, your hunger, thirst and the body’s natural rhythms [...]
Fat is essential for the human body to function. Fat supplies calories and essential fatty acids, and it helps the body absorb vitamins A, D, E and K. The oversimplified notion that reducing or eliminating one’s fat intake will solve any health or weight problems is plain wrong. Our brains actually thrive on a high-fat [...]
Everyone knows that maintaining a healthy weight involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but who’dathunk that cookies, chips, puddings and beer could be healthy? Long before the dawn of agriculture, our ancestors spent 2.5 million years fine-tuning their metabolism and collective physiology to an opportunist’s diet that included everything from found or hunted meats and seafood [...]
