DrClydeWilson's NUTRITION BLOG

Oxygen: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Oxygen attacks molecules to take electrons from them. This is great if you want a fire, either on your stove or a slower burn in the mitochondria of your cells, but all fires come with a price. Outside your body,... Read more →

If you change 1 thing with your nutrition

Research has recently shown if you could only change one thing about your nutrition, adding vegetables should be that one thing. Most people think such advice stems from vegetables being so high in nutrients, meaning that they are so healthy.... Read more →

Holiday Eating Success

AUDIO: Holiday Eating Success 2013 The Holidays are filled with cheer in the form of parties, people, and food. Although the food part is something to look forward to all year, it would not exactly qualify as healthy. Fortunately, it... Read more →

Funny! WWCE = what would Clyde eat?

I gave an advanced sports nutrition talk at a company yesterday, and someone subsequently posted a reminder for critical thought on their refrigerators and snack shelf! Read more →

Two guys trying to slow down their carbs

My friend Andrew and I eating salad to help slow down the carb digestion rate so we can max out in our day. The fresh bread served at this bakery tasted great, eliminating the possibility of not eating it. Next... Read more →

Healthy Start for YOUR Nutrition

Having the same resolution over and over again to start living healthier is frustrating. Is there a way to shift how we eat so that at least that part of the resolution doesn’t keep returning? Yes: Instead of committing yourself... Read more →

1st batch of Clyde bars to go to the cafe

At Just Catering making the Clyde bars, but rounder (more like muffins) called "Planets" like I called the smaller spheres a decade ago, and that I baked at home a few weeks back (see earlier blog entry). Juan is grinding... Read more →

Hydration: X marks the spot

Drinking water after running 25 min with 6 sprints. Behind me is the water fountain at the side of the house where I sit to relax by the sight and sound of flow. Water for body, mind & spirit. Read more →

Without clyde bars I eat ice cream

This is my friend Karen, her son Lucas and I eating ice cream after a hike through the redwoods. Lucas is a cross country athlete (see some of his results) and Karen is a pilates instructor who owns/operates The Balanced... Read more →

"VIP" food is NOT like concessions!

My wife Mireya and I tonight at the Cruz Azul vs Morelia and Chivas vs Pumas double header soccer games that she organized. The result is we sat in this vip box with gourmet sandwiches, fresh fruit, and beer as... Read more →

Clyde-Bar Bros

A few posts ago you can see me eating half a churo immediately after intense exercise in a photo with my nephew Austen. Here we are immediately after my return from Just Catering with the 1st batch ever of professionally... Read more →

Going professional w/ Just Catering

This is Chef Dave at Just Catering putting finishing touches on a batch of Clyde bars and later pulling them out of the oven with Jose. With so much fresh vegetables in them should we call them "salad bars"? Read more →

Making Dr. Clyde planets & bars

After 10 years, I made my first batch of Dr. Clyde "planets" (50-calorie spheres). This was a quick test with simplified ingredients: starch (rolled oats), veggies (spinnach, broccoli), fruit (peaches), unsaturated fats (flax seeds, peanut butter), and sweetener (raw maple... Read more →

Heart-felt TED talk by MD discussing insulin resistance causing obesity

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Churro Bros

My nephew Austin and I eating churros; my post exercise carb. I love trying out carb treats that any other time would reduce my health RIGHT after hard exercise, since at those time it actually HELPS my body. What a... Read more →

“Blessed are the Sleek?" No

Summary: The Daniel Plan incorrectly calls nuts and grains protein sources, and ignores that fruits are not as healthy as vegetables, making it another “diet” rather than “common sense eating” as it claims. I do applaud, however, the integration of... Read more →

Death is "Free" as Low-Fat/Cal Dressing

I took Subway sandwiches to feed the medical students in my Food Pharmacology class yesterday. Because no sandwich place on the planet gives you enough vegetables to slow down the bread digestion rate enough to optimize health, I asked them... Read more →

Paleo incorrect: legumes are not antinutrients

The Paleo Diet claims that beans and lentils should be excluded from the diet because they contain antinutrients. Phytic acid (reduces some micronutrient absorption) is just as high in nuts as they are in legumes, and yet nuts are not... Read more →

Medical Research Ignores & Duplicates Previous Research: Ignorance Can Kill

"Few principles are more fundamental to the scientific and ethical validity of clinical research than that studies should address questions needing to be answered, and that they are designed in a way that will produce a meaningful answer. A prerequisite... Read more →

Crap Science: Dehydrate to Perform

This article (click image to enlarge; Br J Sports Med, 15 Dec 2010, epub ahead of print) shows that faster marathoners tend to drink less than slower marathoners when racing, but that fluid intake is all over the map, with... Read more →

New Year's Resolution: Daily Small Dose of Comfort Food After Healthy Meal

Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan has said that being a better citizen of the world in the 21st century "requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions, rather than be captive of them". I would argue that the same... Read more →

Natural Trans Fats Are Good For Us

Most of the trans fats in the American diet come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. They are created by man to increase shelf life, and they are much worse for us than saturated fats. On the other hand, trans fats... Read more →

Bad Research Adds to Our Confusion By Saying Exercise Before Breakfast is Good

A recent study (click it to enlarge the image) showed that your metabolism is higher, so you burn more body fat, while on a Holiday diet (high-calorie and high-fat) if you exercise in the morning before eating anything. Sounds great... Read more →

You Eat Less Comfort Food After Imagining Eating It

4 days ago an amazing piece of research came out in Science [v330, p1530]. After imagining eating 30 pieces of candy, unrestricted candy consumption was cut to nearly half. After imagining eating cheese, unrestricted consumption of cheese was nearly cut... Read more →

MOVE more towards health: 350 cal/day!

It was shown in 2005 (Science, vol 307, p 584; click left image to enlarge) that leisurly standing or walking twice as much as sitting in your day burns 350 more calories. For the people in the study, those that... Read more →

Fish oil is NOT the same as eating fish

Highly purified and concentrated fish oil supplementation during pregnancy has been proven ineffective for reducing post-partem depression or increasing the child's later cognitive abilities [Makrides M et al., JAMA 304 (2010) 1675]. Concentrated fish oil often requires chemical alteration of... Read more →

Happy Meal stays "happy" for years

Sally Davies has been taking daily photos of a Happy Meal she purchased over a half year. Its appearance has barely changed, although it is now hard as a rock. The New York photographer started the project when a friend... Read more →

Fuel for horseback riding pros

Stanford Equestrian team coach and riders are LOVING the Dr. Clyde Bars during a pilates session with Karen Matison of The Balanced Body at the Sports Medicine Institute www.SMIweb.org Read more →

Making RYAN HALL One Minute Faster

Ryan Hall got 4th in the Boston Marathon this year and is aiming for much more; his perspective of the impact of Dr. Clyde nutrition on his training is below. But FIRST, a short description of his foundation from it's... Read more →

Dr. CLYDE MEALS soon at Fuel Cafes at Equinox Gyms

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Patritia Moreno's IntenSati is AMAZING

Yesterday my friend Jayme Boyle of Equinox Gym told me about an AMAZING fitness class I needed to attend: IntenSati created and lead by Patricia Moreno who was visiting from New York. She is 6 months pregnant and still leading... Read more →

US fighter's perspective on balanced food

US Taekwondo champion James Moontasri and I did an episode for the Lazy Environmentalist on the Sundance Channel to be aired 1 June, in which I make healthy bars, shakes and snacks for a high-level athlete. Click on the photo... Read more →

Fruit is a nearly ideal snack

Fruit, in limited amounts, is the ideal snack to get you through a hectic day. The main calories in fruit are from sucrose, which is sugar made from glucose and fructose. Glucose fuels your muscle and brain as it enters... Read more →

Complete Sports Nutrition: The 3 Ws

There is an obvious need for sufficient calories during intensive training. Not so obvious are how much and how often we should consume specific nutrients. Protein, carbohydrate and water are not easily stored in the body, forcing us to consume... Read more →

Mushrooms farming is SO COOL

I visited Del Fresh mushroom farms today with Bart Minor of the Mushroom Council and could not believe how cool mushroom farming is. Grains inoculated with mushroom spores are planted in compost in a large flat box. The spores develop... Read more →

Respect of self & others: A basis for sustainable healthy habits

I used to think that I wasn't healthy because I had not figured out what supplements to take. Then I thought I discovered it was all about eating healthy food, not supplements. But after teaching nutrition in the medical schools... Read more →

I love my new branding!

The carrot represents motivation, which is big time important for making nutritional change. Designed by Michael Marcheschi of the m2 design group; email [email protected] Read more →

You mean wine is more than just ethanol and resveratrol?

This is Duff Raggio and I after he gave me a bottle of Pena Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2002 from the Piccetti family vineyards. John Piccetti is Duff's best friend and is going teach me a little about wine. I understand... Read more →

My recent talk for students at UCSF

Comments from the attendees (some are funny!): Great Presentation. Excellent, interesting presentation. Good presentation, interesting and funny. Great lecturer! Very down to earth, direct and straight forward, engaging and interesting but a bit too fast to understand well. Great! (3... Read more →

MUST SEE: Anne Cooper on the horror of school lunch & Mark Bittman on how we are eating ourselves & the world to death

These are Dec 2007 Ted Talks. Anne Cooper is in charge of nutrition for Berkeley schools, and gives a PROFOUND 20 min talk on how we are killing our children with school lunches. Mark Bittman is the New York Times... Read more →

Ingredients: Laughs, Smiles & Friendship

My friend Nancy and I have a running joke about eating cauliflower before having any sweets, so she stopped in just now with two Christmas gifts: Some home-made Holiday cookies and a "home grown friend": a sheep with a cauliflower... Read more →

Toxic Holiday Ingredients

Read about the downside of some Holiday Foods: Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are much worse for you than butter or other animal fats. Enriched flour is still just white flour, and spikes your blood sugar as much as pure sugar.... Read more →

My 2-hour key-note address at the Palo Alto VA Obesity Conference

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It was so fun in the photo studio today!

I had the BEST time in the photo studio of Richard Eskite today. Richard, Brad and I took a bunch of photos for my future web site etc in no time, and Brad worked his magic on his computer, in... Read more →

Listen to an interview with me on my book "What, When & Water"

I was interviewed by Charles Green of Better Health Talk Radio, an on-line wellness show, covering all the topics in my book "What, When and Water", including macronutrients, weight loss, and managing your nutrition from the ground up. You can... Read more →

GREAT song about food politics

"What You Don't Know" is a bluegrass song by Million Dollar Nile that I heard about on Michael Pollen's newsletter; sign up at michaelpollan.com. The song is AWESOME, covering the progress of corn from field to industrial chemistry lab to... Read more →

We "like" seeing and tasting food in different parts of our brain

The picture shows where we like seeing milkshakes! There are different regions in the brain that give us positive emotions when we see or smell foods we like as opposed to actually eating foods we like. Emotion is partly mediated... Read more →

Self-Control is a Limited Resource: It Fatigues Like a Muscle

Self-control weakens as it is used, so that continuous attempts at self-control are increasingly likely to fail [1]: People who forced themselves to eat radishes instead of tempting chocolates, or who tried to suppress their emotions, subsequently quit faster when... Read more →

Vegetables with Breakfast

Vegetables slow down the digestion of everything we eat, allowing significantly more nutrients to go to muscle and other active tissue rather than body fat. In addition, vegetables have the twice the amount of phytonutrients compared to whole grains and... Read more →

YouTube: McDonald's 1st time in > 30 yrs

When I was 8 years old in the 3rd grade I had a Happy Meal and haven't been to McDonald's since. It was OK, but not enough to draw me back (I preferred macaroni and cheese or Captain Crunch cereal).... Read more →