Miles Kimball on Diet and Health: A Reader's Guide
The list of links to my posts on diet and health has become too long to continue putting at the bottom of each new diet and health post. So I’ll refer to this post for a categorized list of those links. (I’ll keep it updated.) Take a good look at the list. I have high hopes that in it, you can find something useful to you.
I. The Basics
What Steven Gundry's Book 'The Plant Paradox' Adds to the Principles of a Low-Insulin-Index Diet
David Ludwig: It Takes Time to Adapt to a Lowcarb, Highfat Diet
Jonathan Shaw: Could Inflammation Be the Cause of Myriad Chronic Diseases?
George Monbiot on the Role of Food Companies in Making Us Fat
Nicole Rura: Close to Half of US Population Projected to Have Obesity by 2030
Are Processed Food and Environmental Contaminants the Main Cause of the Rise of Obesity?
II. Fasting
Jason Fung's Single Best Weight Loss Tip: Don't Eat All the Time
How to Make Ramadan Fasting—or Any Other Religious Fasting—Easier
Elizabeth Thomas: Can Time-Restricted Eating Prevent You From Overindulging on Thanksgiving?
Don't Tar Fasting by those of Normal or High Weight with the Brush of Anorexia
The Benefits of Fasting are Looking So Clear People Try to Mimic Fasting without Fasting
On My Pattern of Fasting (click here, then on ‘show this thread’)
Potential Protective Mechanisms of Ketosis in Migraine Prevention
Can a Fasting-Induced Changing-of-the-Guard for Immune Cells Help Treat Auto-Immune Diseases?
III. Sugar as a Slow Poison
Best Health Guide: 10 Surprising Changes When You Quit Sugar
Heidi Turner, Michael Schwartz and Kristen Domonell on How Bad Sugar Is
Michael Lowe and Heidi Mitchell: Is Getting ‘Hangry’ Actually a Thing?
The Better Side of Conventional Wisdom about Diet and Health
How Many Thousands of Americans Will the Sugar Lobby's Latest Victory Kill?
Aseem Malhotra: Avoiding Sugar is Much More Powerful Than Taking Statins (link post)
Sam Apple on the Tragedy of Pro-Sugar Policies of the US Government
IV. Anti-Cancer Eating
How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed
Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too?
Cancer Cells Love Sugar; That’s How PET Scans for Cancer Work
V. Eating Tips
Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index
Vitamin D Seems to Help If You Have Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease
Putting the Perspective from Jason Fung's "The Obesity Code" into Practice
Which Nonsugar Sweeteners are OK? An Insulin-Index Perspective
Don't Drink Sweet Drinks Between Meals—Whether Sugary or with Nonsugar Sweeteners
Elizabeth Thomas: Can Time-Restricted Eating Prevent You From Overindulging on Thanksgiving?
On Franziska Spritzler’s 14 Ways to Lower Your Insulin Levels
VI. Calories In/Calories Out
On How Incredibly Noisy Any One Reading on the Scale is as a Gauge of Long-Run Weight Gain or Loss
Kevin D. Hall and Juen Guo: Why it is so Hard to Lose Weight and so Hard to Keep it Off
VII. Other Health Issues
Hormone Replacement Therapy is Much Better and Much Safer Than You Think
Standard Hormone Replacement Therapy Doesn't Cause Breast Cancer
How the Ancient Greeks Invented Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing to Deal with Trauma
Judson Brewer, Elizabeth Bernstein and Mitchell Kaplan on Finding Inner Calm
Less Than 6 or More than 9 Hours of Sleep Signals a Higher Risk of Heart Attacks
Mental Retirement: Use It or Lose It—Susann Rohwedder and Robert Willis
Geriatrics: The Grim Good Magic of Setting Priorities in Old Age
Matthew Sedacca: To a Cigarette Maker, Your Life Is Worth About $10,000
Improving Your Blood Vessel Health by Strengthening Your Breathing Muscles
Should Those Whose Main Symptom is Chest Pains Get Stent or Bypass Surgery?
An Inexpensive Cold Sore Treatment That Doubles as an Antiseptic Towelette
Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina: Why You'll Be Disappointed If You Are Exercising to Lose Weight, Explained with 60+ Studies (my retitling of the article this links to)
VIII. Debates about Particular Foods and Drinks
Don't Think Fat vs. Carbs vs. Protein; It's Good vs. Bad Fat, Carbs and Protein
Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It
Faye Flam: The Taboo on Dietary Fat is Grounded More in Puritanism than Science
The Artery-Aging Properties of TMAO and the TMAO-Producing Effect of Animal Protein Consumption
The Surprising Genetic Correlation Between Protein-Heavy Diets and Obesity
Confirmation Bias in the Interpretation of New Evidence on Salt
Eggs May Be a Type of Food You Should Eat Sparingly, But Don't Blame Cholesterol Yet
Journal of the American College of Cardiology State-of-the-Art Review on Saturated Fats
IX. Wonkish
Are Processed Food and Environmental Contaminants the Main Cause of the Rise of Obesity?
Livestock Antibiotics, Lithium and PFAS as Leading Suspects for Environmental Causes of Obesity
How Lithium May Have Led to Serious Obesity for the Pima Beginning around 1937
Market Opportunities for Helping People Deal with Obesity-Causing Environmental Contaminants
Semaglutide Looks Like the First Truly Impressive Weight-Loss Drug
Framingham State Food Study: Lowcarb Diets Make Us Burn More Calories
Anthony Komaroff: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes
Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners
After Gastric Bypass Surgery, Insulin Goes Down Before Weight Loss has Time to Happen
America’s Losing Battle Against Diabetes—Chad Terhune, Robin Respaut and Deborah Nelson (link post)
A Low-Glycemic-Index Vegan Diet as a Moderately-Low-Insulin-Index Diet
Analogies Between Economic Models and the Biology of Obesity
Layne Norton Discusses the Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes Debate (a Debate on Joe Rogan’s Podcast)
In Mice, High-Fat Diets Seem to Foster Cancers Involving Immune Cells
Frightening New England Journal of Medicine Projections for the Rise of Obesity
David Ludwig's 6-Minute Summary of the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity
You Might Need to Educate Your Doctor about the Effects of a Long Fast on Cholesterol Readings
Standard Cholesterol Tests are Substandard; Better Cholesterol Tests are Available
X. Gary Taubes
XI. Twitter Discussions
Putting the Perspective from Jason Fung's "The Obesity Code" into Practice
'Forget Calorie Counting. It's the Insulin Index, Stupid' in a Few Tweets
Debating 'Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid'
Analogies Between Economic Models and the Biology of Obesity
XII. Pandemic Thoughts on Diet and Health
Getting More Vitamin D May Help You Fight Off the New Coronavirus
Shelly Miller: Indoors is the Danger Zone for COVID-19 Transmission; Good Ventilation Can Help
Indoors is Very Dangerous for COVID-19 Transmission, Especially When Ventilation is Bad
Jose-Luis Jimenez on the Benefits of Masks and Being Outdoors
XIII. On My Interest in Diet and Health
See the last section of "Five Books That Have Changed My Life" and the podcast "Miles Kimball Explains to Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal Why Losing Weight Is Like Defeating Inflation." If you want to know how I got interested in diet and health and fighting obesity and a little more about my own experience with weight gain and weight loss, see “Diana Kimball: Listening Creates Possibilities” and my post "A Barycentric Autobiography.” I defend the ability of economists like me to make a contribution to understanding diet and health in “On the Epistemology of Diet and Health: Miles Refuses to `Stay in His Lane’” and “Crafting Simple, Accurate Messages about Complex Problems.”