Losing Fat With Simple Food-- Two Reader Anecdotes

Each week, I'm receiving more e-mails and comments from people who are successfully losing fat by eating simple (low reward) food, similar to what I described here.  In some cases, people are breaking through fat loss plateaus that they had reached on conventional low-carbohydrate, low-fat or paleo diets.  This concept can be applied to any type of diet, and I believe it is an important characteristic of ancestral food patterns.At the Ancestral...

my kiddos got up at 5:15 today....i might need an inspirational quote to get me through this day......this one seems pretty good :) *images courtesy of hearts at a carnival,  house of turquoise , middle child complex, one kings l...

Advice for new professors

A summary of advice I have for new professors.*1) DelegateGraduate students were invented for a reason. Delegate everything. Data analysis. Literature reviews. Writing. Teaching prep. If you don't have any graduate students, find some undergrads. A task you might find mundane can actually be "research experience". One of my colleagues laments that their students often mess things up, causing even more work than just doing it themselves. For...