Robert Lustig There are plenty of scientists like Seneff, working in near-obscurity. But there also are plenty others who are much more accessible and known – Robert Lustig is one such scientist. So, just as Stephanie Seneff, a computer engineer, uses biochemistry to explain metabolism nd health, so does Robert Lustig, the difference is he…
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Stephanie Seneff’s not-so-radical ideas on diet
There’s more. What if what we know as heart disease was the result of cholesterol deposits, as a silo or reservoir, close to the heart muscle so that vital cholesterol (easily transported as the highly agreeable, miscible, and absolutely critical cholesterol sulfate anion) is available to bind and neutralize endotoxins released by infectious bacteria.[1] What…
Food Heroine — Stephanie Seneff
But let’s get back to food choice, and science, and information – can a top-researcher like Stephanie Seneff prevail in her saturated fats campaign? Stephanie Seneff Stephanie Seneff walks in a number of professional worlds – maintaining her senior research associate position at MIT, but also speaking her mind, via her research, in any forum…
Seneff and the saturated fat argument
Stephanie Seneff argues tirelessly that substantive changes in lifestyle over the past 40 years, in particular, reduced sun exposure and avoiding dietary fat, have led to an almost unshakable belief that avoiding fat and sun are healthy. And even with a lot of sun exposure, if saturated fats and Vitamin D (which we get form…
Sulfur and fire geography
A little speculation of my own (with a little help from my friends) SULFUR. Stephanie Seneff, waxes eloquent on the virtues of sulfur, and Michael Medler, a physical geography at Western Washington University who works with fire, literally and figuratively. Besides his fire ecology work, he also is the father of there girls (19 and…
Slow-down diet
The variety of Wansink’s work is quite impressive – in part, because each research question he asks generates many more. Also – he tries quite hard not to take sides. Everyone thinks Wansink is in his or her pocket, like Sandor Katz (of Wild Fermentation fame says). They think he’s low fat or vegetarian or…
Food heroes and heroines
As promised, I’m profiling three scientists who not only have somewhat contentious scholarship, but also would seemingly contradict each other – one low-fat proponent and another, a high-fat diet proponent, both offering insights into food choice and diet. One is wildly interdisciplinary (Wansink), the other, narrowly trained but with high personal motivation (Seneff). So from…
Food scientists need to have a little more experience with media….
If I Google my top three favorite food scientists and writers (Lustig, Wansink, Seneff), they aren’t exactly positioned in top health and alternative health websites, my team is not getting very much coverage (relatively speaking).[1]Results: Name # hits Robert Lustig (Bitter Truth/UCSF) 7,300,000; 27,000 in Google scholar Brian Wansink (Cornell) 268,000;…
Diets and “Good Science”
With the low fat mantra, consumers have been substituting sugar more and more, and weight and abdominal body fat have been increasing. Not surprisingly, so has purchase of “low-fat,” lite foods – discussed mightily in Sugar, Salt Fat (Michael Moss). So, there seems to have been some cherry-picking in Key’s work – and the rise…
Ancel Benjamin Keys and the lipid hypothesis
The idea of cherry picking data in food science and studies is often associated with Ancel Keys, who died in 2004 at the age of 100. Keys completed studies at UC Berkeley, originally studying chemistry, but then receiving a BA in economics and political science, and a MS in zoology. He was a management trainee…