In the first post, I explained that all voluntary actions are driven by a central action selection system in the mesolimbic area (the reward system). This is the part of you that makes the decision to act, or not to act. This system determines your overall motivation to obtain food, based on a variety of internal and external factors, for example hunger, the effort required to obtain food, and the sensory qualities of food/drink. These factors are recognized and processed by a number of specialized 'modules' in the brain, and forwarded to the...
Kamis, 31 Januari 2013
Rabu, 30 Januari 2013
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part II
In the last post, I explained that eating behavior is determined by a variety of factors, including hunger and a number of others that I'll gradually explore as we make our way through the series. These factors are recognized by specialized brain 'modules' and forwarded to a central action selection system in the mesolimbic area (the reward system), which determines if they are collectively sufficient cause for action. If so, they're forwarded to brain systems that directly drive the physical movements involved in seeking and consuming food (motor...
Selasa, 29 Januari 2013
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part I
As with all voluntary movements, eating food is an expression of activity in the brain. The brain integrates various inputs from around the body, and outside the body, and decides whether or not to execute the goal-directed behaviors of food seeking and consumption. Research has uncovered a lot about how this process works, and in this series I'll give a simplified overview of what scientists have learned about how, and why, the brain decides to eat. The Gatekeeper of Voluntary BehaviorsRead more...
Comment Policy
Over the last year, I've noticed that the quality of the comments section here has deteriorated significantly, with a high proportion of poorly grounded and/or disrespectful comments, typically from anonymous or semi-anonymous people. This is the nature of the Internet I suppose-- comments sections are rowdy places. But ultimately I do have control over this, and I intend to exert it to maintain a higher level of information quality and decorum in my corner of the Internet. For the foreseeable future, I'll be moderating comments. Here...
Senin, 28 Januari 2013
Announcing the Ideal Weight Program
I often receive requests from people asking for my overall perspective on fat loss and health. I share my opinions here, but they're scattered throughout hundreds of posts, there's a lot I haven't had a chance to write about, and I rarely give practical recommendations. However, I knew I'd eventually put everything together into a cohesive fat loss program-- it was only a matter of finding the right opportunity.That opportunity presented...
Jumat, 25 Januari 2013
Kamis, 24 Januari 2013
Comment Published in Nature
I recently read an opinion piece by Gary Taubes in the scientific journal Nature, titled "Treat Obesity as Physiology, not Physics", in which he promoted NuSI and repeated the statement that obesity research is a "house of cards" because it focuses on calories in/out, at the expense of studying the "hormonal regulatory disorders" underlying obesity (1). I wrote a letter to the editor in response to Taubes's commentary, which has been published in Nature (2).I'm used to seeing these kinds of claims in the popular press at this point, but to see...
Rabu, 23 Januari 2013
Dogs Eating Carbs
Five years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a veterinarian friend about dog food. We were talking about diabetes in one of the dogs she was treating, and I remarked "that's what happens when you feed a carnivore carbohydrate". She gave me a funny look. At the time, I was seeing the world through the low-carb lens, and I remember thinking how bizarre it was that she didn't yield to my impeccable logic. As they say, live and learn. The journal Nature published a fascinating paper on the evolution of the domestic dog today (1). Researchers...
Kamis, 17 Januari 2013
Ginger Soup with Lamb Meat Recipe
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What would most of people normally will do when must facing the cold weather and the rainy season? Some of them maybe will wearing cold weather clothing such as sweaterwhich make from the wool sheep to keep the body warm, brew a cup of ginger tea as the healthy tea recipe, then prefer to stay at home with the family also watch the television, is it wonderful life on the cold weather and rainy season, how do you think? Other idea, just contact your...
Minggu, 13 Januari 2013
Cinnamon as Your Spices Valentine’s Day
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Sabtu, 12 Januari 2013
How to find best grinder for spices herb?
I was remember my first experience when try to grindingour spices herb, first experiment that we used grinder machine which usually work for coffee bean, yes it has working good for coffee bean but not for other spices such as vanilla bean to become ground vanilla powder. I need ground vanilla powder as the material in the making recipes of vanilla bean paste as the recipe from my best customer in Australia about homemade vanilla bean paste. So,...
Jumat, 11 Januari 2013
Kamis, 10 Januari 2013
Lamb Roast with Coffee Bean Sauce
Including me and my wife, most of people who love cookingmaybe more familiar in use kind of spicessuch as pepper, coriander and nutmeg as sauce ingredients on the cooking recipe such as lamb roast, last, together with my wife where we prepare lamb roast for the order which come from the customer as the new years celebration. But how about the sauce ingredients on the lamb roast recipeswhen use coffee bean? The new knowledge for me and can be inspiration for the next customer order after has know about Hawaii lamb roast recipes which use coffee...
Selasa, 08 Januari 2013
Starbucks, Link Share and Affiliation Business
For all of you who has a dream to have exotic gourmet coffee shop, but you still worried about how to start up the business and the fund capital, why not to try in simple business strategy as best work smart method that very useful in my thinking for business beginner? The story was began when I am very interested to search about the famous coffee brand and coffee company in the world called Starbucks.The unique thing that I saw on the website which owned by Starbucks is not only about the coffee bean product, more than that, I saw the brilliant...
Appearance on "Ask the Low-Carb Experts" Podcast Postponed
I was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Moore's show "Ask the Low-Carb Experts" this Thursday. I don't consider myself a low-carb expert, but I do have expertise in obesity and metabolism, and Jimmy had invited me to discuss these topics on his show. Due to a confluence of events, I've decided that this is not the best time to do the show. I want to be clear that I don't intend this as a rebuke of Jimmy Moore or his show-- most of my reasons for postponing have nothing to do with Jimmy. Thanks for your understandi...
Minggu, 06 Januari 2013
Health Secret of Arrowroot Powder
For all of you whose living in USA that I believe has familiar with Arrowroot Powder. The powder which comes from the rhizome of herb plant that has the scientist name is Maranta arundinacea. My interested with this herb plant is when I was saw this plant which planting under durian tree at the plantation of my father in law on Kuningan city, West Java provinces, Indonesia. People in West Javahas call Arrowroot with the name of Garut plant. ...
Sabtu, 05 Januari 2013
Overfeeding and Elevated Insulin
It's commonly accepted in the obesity research community that fat gain causes insulin resistance and an increase in circulating insulin, and that this is a major reason why obese people usually have insulin resistance and high circulating insulin. Part of the rationale is that substantial fat loss by almost any means improves insulin sensitivity and causes circulating insulin to decline, and substantial fat gain from deliberate overfeeding causes insulin sensitivity to decline and circulating insulin to increase. I recently cited three references...
Jumat, 04 Januari 2013
Food Reward Friday
This week's "winner"... the Heart Attack Grill's Quadruple Bypass Burger!Read more...
Kamis, 03 Januari 2013
Extreme Flu Activity in the US
A friend of mine came down with a nasty flu recently. I checked Google Flu Trends, and found that flu activity is currently at "intense" levels throughout the US. This is the highest flu activity Google Flu Trends has recorded in the last six years (image from Google Flu Trends 1/3/12). Read more...
Rabu, 02 Januari 2013
Herbs and Spices for Animal Livestock
Not only having benefit use for human health, many research said about benefit use of herbs and spices for animal livestock. Start with the definition about livestockbase on information that I got from the website of wisegeek.com, livestock is an umbrella term used for domesticated animals raised in an agricultural environment, with the intent of providing food, textiles, labor, or fertilizer to their owners. Common examples are horses, pigs, goats, cows, sheep, and poultry although numerous other semi-wild animals including reindeer, yaks, camels,...
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