Saturated fat info at ASBP

Saturated fat info at ASBP

MD and I had a great time at the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP) [Now Obesity Medicine Association] meeting. We ran into a lot of old friends and met some new ones.  And my talk (the annual Robert C. Atkins Memorial Lecture) went off without a hitch. Thanks to all of you who wished…

The sugar hypothesis

The sugar hypothesis

I’m always amazed at how the lipid hypothesis of heart disease has wormed its way deep into the souls of physicians, scientists, and medical/nutritional writers the world over. The flimsiest piece of research appearing to confirm this entrenched bias is not only accepted uncritically (not by yours truly, of course), but is shouted from the…