healthy for life

I'll be out of town until the beginning of November, so I won't be responding to comments or e-mails for a while. I'm going to ...

Insulin is an important hormone. Its canonical function is to signal cells to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, but it has many other ef...

The house mouse Mus musculus is an incredible research tool in the biomedical sciences, due to its ease of care and its ability to be genet...

I recently did a written interview for the website Bizymoms.com. It was the first time I had been invited to do an interview, so I figured ...

In the comments of the last post, we've been discussing the relationship between body fatness and diabetes risk.  I think this is really...

I bumped into a fascinating paper today by Dr. Loren Cordain titled "Plant-Animal Subsistence Ratios and Macronutrient Estimations in ...

One pound of human fat contains about 3,500 calories. That represents roughly 40 slices of toast. So if you were to eat one extra slice of...

Like 99.9% of the world's population, I am mostly dependent on agriculture for my food. It's fun to pretend sometimes though. I en...

Introduction Chris Voigt is the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, which supports and promotes the Washington sta...