DrClydeWilson's NUTRITION BLOG

"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 →

Christopher Gardner's research "supporting" the Atkin's Diet

Christopher Gardner is a personal friend of mine who a is Professor in Preventative Medicine at Stanford. He and I give lectures in each other's classes, and he is providing feedback on my current nutrition interventions with athletes (I have... Read more →

'The Zone' and other diets: What I recommend

Clyde, Have you read Barry Sears' book "Enter the Zone"? You and he have many similar recommendations. One major difference, it seems to me, is that he says to cut the "bottom layer of the food pyramid," i.e., breads, grains,... Read more →

Natural weight "set point" for ALL of us

Each of us have a natural body weight below which the body increases its resistance to further weight loss. This set point is dependent on fitness level (exercise level), metabolic rate (exercise and nutrition habits), history (past overweight results in... Read more →

Sending more calories to muscle, less to body fat

Active tissues in the body (everything other than body fat) can absorb about 10 Calories per minute. Eating pure sugar, such as in a candy bar or ice cream, results in calories entering the bloodsteam faster than the maximum rate... Read more →