In the late 19th century, French physicist Nicholas Clément coined the term “calorie” as a unit of measurement in heat engines. He defined it as the heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water from 0 to 1°C, but the word “calorie” didn’t become popular until 1918
Imagine trauma as an electric charge and Hans as an electromagnetic coil and maybe then we can begin to understand addictive behavior. Once upon a time in Berlin I bounced into a medical doctor by the name of Hans (not his real name for reasons that will become obvious). Hans, 56, taught me a…
The rise of sugar correlates with a chronic disease plague that few paid attention to before the late 20th century.
“A coincidence is a surprising concurrence of events, perceived as meaningfully related, with no apparent causal connection,” is how two mathematicians, Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, defined coincidence in 1989, after a long and exhaustive battle with the definition. Mathematicians generally believe that any meaning we assign to coincidences mostly originates from our universal inability…
We are becoming infertile without understanding why, at a speed that boggles the mind. Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, recently concluded a 15-year long nationwide study on semen quality that showed that only 38 percent of young Swiss men have the minimum sperm cell qualifications to be fertile. The study included 2,523…
Autoimmune diseases occur when our body attacks and destroys its own cells and organs. One out of ten citizens in the European Union suffers from an autoimmune disease. According to the American Association of Autoimmune Diseases fifty million Americans, one out of six, suffer from an autoimmune disease and the numbers seem to be similar…
The most dangerous and persistent myth around nutrition, propagated especially after the 1980s by the sugar and food industry, is that fat is bad.
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