Selasa, 26 Februari 2013

The Dark Side of Food Addiction

When it comes down to it, what is the difference between enjoying a terrific meal and the dangerousness of hyperpalatable foods? (If you haven�t seen it, go read the Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food recently in the New York Times.) Also, looks like a book will soon be out from which the article was taken: Sugar, Salt, Fat (just downloaded it to my kindle).The Lumineers: Stubborn...
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Sabtu, 23 Februari 2013

Head over there to see: Eat Your Egg Yolks about a new (groundbreaking) study from the American Journal of Psychiatry linking choline supplementation in pregnancy to better brain function in infants. You can also check out Zombieland and Zombieland II.Photo from Flikr Creative Comm...
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Jumat, 22 Februari 2013

Emotional Eating

First off, while a lot of the feedback from the Orthorexia series was quite positive (and here is a really thoughtful blog post offshoot from the series), I got some comments and emails accusing me of being silly and judgmental about people�s concern about their diets. So I do want to clarify one point: I care not one whit what you eat*. I do care about you as a human being, but I don�t judge...
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Jumat, 15 Februari 2013

I spent last weekend in Utah meeting up with my sisters and brothers of the Physician and Ancestral Health organization. We're a group of clinical medicine doctors from all sorts of specialities (though psychiatry is overrepresented, perhaps not surprisingly) who are trying to find safe and evidenced-based ways to integrate evolutionary medicine into our clinical practice. We come together for support,...
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Selasa, 12 Februari 2013

Here's Part 1 and Part 2 of the Orthorexia series.This weekend I was away in Utah at the inaugural Physicians and Ancestral Health conference. More on that later, but I'm linking now to Victoria's take. It was a terrific weekend, and I do want to take some time right now to thank Rick Henriksen, John Barret, and Lucy Flynn for organizing the conference. In addition I would like to thank Jacob...
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Minggu, 03 Februari 2013

I knew Friday's post on orthorexia would hit a nerve, but didn't anticipate it would gather steam quite as fast as it did�and (for my moderated blog) a bit of a lively discussion has developed in the comments, raising some important questions and concerns. Thus worthy of a Part Deux. There will be (maybe somewhat irreverent) digressions based on my personal and clinical experiences rather than a Pubmed...
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Jumat, 01 Februari 2013

Orthorexia in the Paleo/Primal Community

Far be it from me to steer entirely clear of the paleo drama when it pops up, despite my best intentions. An issue and question has been put forth that I feel I should address as the resident psychiatrist around these parts. Bear with me as I trace the trail of drama�it all began with Dr. McGuff, Dr. Davis, and Jimmy Moore going on former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's podcast over the past couple...
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