DrClydeWilson's NUTRITION BLOG

Scoring the quality of research papers

The editors of the US family medicine and primary care journals (i.e. Journal of Family Practice, Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, American Family Physician, Family Medicine, and the British Medical Journal-USA) have developed a grading scale for... Read more →

"Unhappy Meals" by Michael Pollen

Michael Pollen is an journalism professor at Cal who wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma (I highly recommend this book or the audio version; I did the latter). He wrote an extremely good article in the New York Times Magazine in 2007.... Read more →

Helping a young athlete get to Nationals

Hi Clyde -- Just wanted to let you know that we saw great results this weekend from the dietary changes you recommended for [our daughter]. On Saturday she placed second in the region in the 800 with a time of... Read more →

Changing a Teenager's Life

Dear Clyde, I cannot begin to thank you for your wonderful seminar last night. There is so much I want to tell you, but I will try to keep this short. I heard you speak (with Sunnny) at a seminar... Read more →

Nutritional health during Ramadan

Eating only when the sun is not up for spiritual health does NOT need to conflict with physical health. The answer is very simple: Use the concept of caloric pacing (slowing down digestion) but take it particularly seriously for one... Read more →

HILARIOUS: My "Chuck Norris" Take-No-Prisoners Diet (and blender)

After I gave seminar for the Cal (UC Berkeley) Triathlon Club last year, one of the attendees (Adrian) posted the following on their chat forum. It is HILARIOUS. Click the title to go to Adrian's post: "Dr. Clyde and Chuck... Read more →

"Intuitive Eating" or the "No-Diet Diet": Eat whatever you want and lose weight

Below is the link to an article describing a Professor who lost a lot of weight eating whatever he wanted but ONLY ate when hungry and STOPPED eating when not hungry. This was after many years of struggling with diets.... Read more →

Really GETTING my nutrition philosophy

On 7 March 2007 I gave a triathlon & marathon nutrition seminar at UCSF. Here is what one of the attendees (Jesse) posted on his blog the next day: "I went to a nutrition workshop last night expecting an extremely... Read more →

My CORE Philosophy

1. The most important thing in the world is PEOPLE. Each person should show their respect for themselves by taking care of themselves and living life to the fullest while helping others to do the same. 2. Taking care of... Read more →

Spiking your kids' blood sugar so they'll sleep

Clyde, What are the sleep requirements for an athlete after doing a hard lactate threshold training workout? I suspect I'm getting too little sleep to recover optimally. Also, how much malto should I give my kids to spike their blood... Read more →

USS Carl Vinson shipmate

Hi Clyde, It's great to see a former shipmate doing well.....Ken Petty Reactor Controls CVN-70 1989-1992 ANSWER: It is great hearing from someone who I knew on the ship! Are there any more of you out there? Read more →