The old advice is bad advice — If you were invited to a dinner party at the home of a friend who is a fantastic cook, what would you do to be sure to arrive hungry and able to sample all the treats they made? Maybe you’d eat less that day — maybe even skip lunch. Or…

A “Calories In/Calories Out” experiment — The “Calories In/Calories Out” (CICO) crowd tend to rely on the First Law of Thermodynamics to support the claim that to lose weight, your Calories out need to be greater than your Calories in. They like to show this formula to explain how weight loss works:

Do your readers a solid and read this — I get a lot of stories in my Medium feed along the lines of “Do These Things to Lower Your Risk of Dementia” or Heart Disease, or Type 2 Diabetes, etc. They all tend to reference research of some sort and they all tend to suffer from the same problem…

Inspired by a fellow writer on Medium — I recently read this article here on Medium and it got me thinking of an interesting money matter. Dr Roberts’ article, linked above, is about behavioral economics. Mine is less intellectual and is just an interesting (at least to me!) thing I learned that is related to money. Cash Vs. Credit Back in…

Scientist Vs. Technician — My wife, Silvia, has a small business. As part of her marketing efforts on social media, she posts a quote of the day. The quote from a few days ago inspired me to write this story. The quote is by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Strauss was a renowned contemporary thinker with significant…

I wrote this with egg on my face Those familiar with my work know I write a lot about the ketogenic diet and the mechanisms by which it works. …

Will Olivia get her life back? People who have read my articles here, or those who have seen comments I make on others’ articles, know I write a lot about the ketogenic diet as it related to weight loss. Many critics of the diet often point out that it was…

Why we don’t know what we think we know Oxford Languages defines science as “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.” …

You might be surprised! In February of 2020, I published an article here on Medium called “Thin People Shouldn’t Give Weight Loss Advice.” Thin People Shouldn’t Give Weight Loss Advice Or, illusory correlation in action!santhony4649.medium.com It was not an article shaming thin people. Rather, it was a lesson in something called illusory correlation. …