ROUND UP RXNS: Dr. Kevin Hall & the Metabolic Chamber of Secrets
UPDATED Jul 11, 2016 - includes 2 more responses AND response from Kevin Hall (re: diet sequence) The paper is out! The NUSI study long awaited as the poster-session-heard-round-the-world has been published and the reactions are swift. Check out the study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. If you don't remember, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and Dr. Kevin Hall discussed Hall's poster at the International Congress of Obesity (it's a longish video, click here for a transcript)
Let's Stop Talking About Whether a Calorie is a Calorie. Please?
“A Calorie is a Calorie.” Or isn’t it? Nutrition writers love to throw around arguments about the state of the calorie, as if they're overturning centuries of caloric orthodoxy. Arguing about calories is a diet guru trope because it conflates the meaning of the word calorie with the effect of the source of the calorie, but the first time you hear it, it sounds meaningful and groundbreaking. Unfortunately, the statement is meaningless and tired. So let's all agree to a ceas