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Hi, I’m Bill.


I have a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology and am currently researching obesity, inflammation, and insulin resistance (here’s a list of my publications).  This blog is about energy balance; including everything from foods and dietary patterns to hormones and weight loss… calories proper.  I’m passionate about this field and I hope you enjoy the blog.

Sometimes I think faster than I type, so some of the stuff about energy balance, insulin resistance, and how they apply to body composition might seem unclear.  I wrote a book to more thoroughly explain these concepts in a variety of different contexts (with plenty of examples).  A lot of the fundamentals can be found right here in earlier blog posts, but if you’d like a condensed version all in one place: The poor, misunderstood calorie.

• Recent Posts

  • MOA of MCTs – black magic or something less?
  • Guts ‘n GOS, Op. 142
  • Brown adipose tissue
  • Alcohol-proof your liver. SFAs.
  • Molested fats, Op. 139
  • Liver is evil but need not be punished. SFAs.
  • Non-sequiter nutrition V. The neglected fats
  • salt makes you thirsty, soda makes you hungry.
  • Obesity is not permanent
  • The curiosities of nicotin..ic acid
  • How to define a “healthy” diet. Period.
  • Can MCTs skirt the need for strict keto?
  • Mediterranean Diet Fail – Nutrition Disinformation, Part I.
  • Paleotard, meet potatotard, Op. 132
  • Fat mitochondria
    

Archives

This is archives page of The poor, misunderstood calorie. Currently the archives consist of 148 posts, 148 pages and 326 comments, with a total of 36 categories and 85 tags.

Last Posts

• MOA of MCTs – black magic or something less? - May 19, 2013 - comments

Categories

• Advanced nutrition (130)
• chocolate (2)
• coconut (2)
• diet (46)
• Dietary fat (71)
• empty calories (58)
• endurance (2)
• Energy balance (67)
• ephedrine (1)
• Exercise (19)
• fat (24)
• fiber (10)
• Fish (6)
• Fructose (18)
• gastric bypass (4)
• gluten (9)
• Grains (18)
• insulin (31)
• Ketosis (14)
• Leptin (10)
• liver (1)
• microbiota (7)
• mortality (11)
• muscle (5)
• nicotine (2)
• Orlistat (2)
• pair-feeding (6)
• Protein (39)
• resveratrol (2)
• smoking (3)
• strength (2)
• Sugar (63)
• TPMC (21)
• Trans fat (16)
• Uncategorized (38)
• wine (1)

Monthly Archives

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• December 2012 (6)
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• December 2011 (3)
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• February 2011 (3)
• January 2011 (6)
• August 2010 (1)

Tag Cloud

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