Monthly Archives: August 2017

Signs of Summer 15: Ecology of Our Bodies (Fasting)

Last week I talked about fad diets and Metabolic Syndrome (the syndrome of obesity, high blood pressure, low serum HDL’s, high serum triglycerides, and elevated fasting glucose). Metabolic Syndrome is caused by an imbalance between energy consumption and energy utilization … Continue reading

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Signs of Summer 14: The Ecology of Our Bodies (Fad Diets)

Over the years I have read about, been lectured to about, and even tried a number of the fad diets that have been popularized in the media. Most of these feeding regimes have their foundations in the very casual (and … Continue reading

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Signs of Summer 13: Our W.E.I.R.D. World

Two of the greatest accomplishments in human history were the formulation of germ theory (the recognition that many diseases were caused by microscopic entities (primarily bacteria and viruses)) and the development of sanitation technologies (which controlled our exposure to the … Continue reading

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Signs of Summer 12: A Spruce by Any Other Name

Up and down my street Colorado blue spruces are dying from the bottom up. At first, I thought that the branch deaths were just normal self-pruning, but now I am afraid that it is more serious than that. Blue spruces … Continue reading

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