Category Archives: calorie wizards

Is the Obesity Epidemic Unstoppable?

The obesity epidemic ravages our society to the tune of trillions of dollars of every year, if you count up all its indirect costs and the indirect costs of those indirect costs. The trillion dollar question is: can we turn … Continue reading

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What in tarnation are we supposed to “count” if not calories?

A Vastly Simplified Model of What’s Inside the Black Box (The Pretty Lines are Feedback Loops and Stuff Like That.) Instead of “Calories,” We Really Should be Counting All This Crap. YIKES!!

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Why Eating Less and Exercising More Only Works for Some of Us…

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Whom to Trust?? Dealing with the Terrifying Possibility that Most Health “Experts” are Boneheaded Nincompoops.

The philosophical implications of Caloriegate should chill any thinking person to the bone. If, indeed, Caloriegate is “true,” then logic suggests it is possibly one of the biggest f**kups in the history of institutional science, if not the biggest f**kup … Continue reading

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