A recent conference on nutrition has sparked an intense and interesting debate on the value of low-carb diets to treat obesity. It has drawn in heavy hitters such as Dr. Robert Lustig and Gary Taubes, and gone on to implicate others throughout the nutrition blogosphere such as Stephan Guyenet ( Read more... )

Elisa Zied is a nutritionist whom I just located through the great blog on obesity called Weighty Matters, authored by an Ottawa-based physician and obesity specialist named Yoni Freedhoff. Through this article on food addiction on Zied's personal blog, I discovered this other post on the topic on a different website. From that post comes the ( Read more... )

The beautiful actress and model Portia deRossi (now known as Portia deGeneres after legally adopting her wife Ellen deGeneres' name last week), appeared on Oprah yesterday to promote her new book Unbearable Lightness and to speak candidly about her battles with anorexia and bulimia. Near the outset of the show, she told a heartrending story about ( Read more... )