DrClydeWilson's NUTRITION BLOG

Food for the SOUL: Eclaire's from HOME

I have been studying chemistry almost every day for 22 years since high school. This includes 6 years in nuclear engineering in the US Navy, 3 years as an undergraduate in Flagstaff AZ, 5 years as a graduate student at... Read more →

My Mom's Quiche: YouTube

Although the camera caught my mom dozing off (just kidding!) this QUICHE is nothing to sleep about! My mom Jeanne (pen name Dazy) is feeding me something no one can resist: Food from home! This quiche is made from olives,... Read more →

Ordering a Sandwich: YouTube

This is me eating a Subway sandwich. I ordered it with "a lot of veggies", lean deli meat (nitrate preservatives come with a small cancer risk) for protein, avocado and olive oil for healthy fats, and had them scoop out... Read more →

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo

Find me at www.MySpace.com/DrClydeWilson (not case sensitive) and on www.Facebook.com (search for Clyde Wilson Palo Alto, since not putting in the city results in many pages of hits: there are SO MANY Clyde Wilsons!). You can also link to me... Read more →

My New YouTube Channel

I just created a You Tube channel at www.youtube.com/drclydewilson. This address is easy to remember: Just YouTube.com with /DrClydeWilson at the end. Read more →

Bodybuilder Quincy Taylor on Vegetables

I met Quincy Taylor (see his web site at www.QuincyTaylor.net or click on his photo) at Gold's Gym in Las Vegas a couple days ago. He is the NICEST person. Terrific personality. I asked him about his nutrition and he... Read more →

Feeding nutrition students chocolate cake

I teach 7 nutrition classes per year: 1 in the medical school at Stanford, 1 in the medical school at UCSF, 1 in Continuing Studies at Stanford (the only course I teach that is open to the public), and 4... Read more →

What, When & Water

What you eat, when you eat, and hydration are the bottom line in nutritional health. It is the concept I end every nutrition class with. An additional concept of secondary importance is processing, referring to food processing by the food... Read more →

Getting the BEST bread at Vital Vittles

The healthiest bread on the market that I have ever seen is made by Vital Vittles in Berkeley. The commitment that this company has to quality is unbelievable. It is closest thing you can get to having a mom who... Read more →

Where I go for my information: PubMed

The National Institutes of Health has an electronic library of all the biology and medical (including nutrition) scientific publications at its web site "PubMed". If you click on "limits" and select "title", then the key words you type in will... Read more →

Amazing resource: Cochrane reviews

When I am searching for the answer to a nutritional or medical question, I know that I will find the most comprehensive and unbiased review or meta-analysis of the scientific literature by The Cochrane Collaboration. This is an international non-profit... Read more →

I'm on Twitter.com so I can update you by the minute from my cell phone!

See www.twitter.com/drclydewilson to follow what I am doing; the entries are instant messages from my phone so I can share thoughts and events with you by the minute. Really cool! Read more →

The Vicious Western Nutrition Cycle

Sugars and several fats induce dopamine and natural opioid signals in the brain that lead to addiction-like changes in the emotion center of our brain. Being busy lends itself to eating convenience (including fast and junk) foods even if a... Read more →

For the 1st time in 25 years!

Clyde has gone to the DARK SIDE!!! Well...not exactly. I was visiting family recently and had just played footbag really hard for over an hour with my brother (he was competitive internationally years ago in footbag) and was famished. My... Read more →