The Nutrition Library.

Nutrition science is a young, underfunded, methodologically constrained discipline whose tools — questionnaires, observational cohorts, surrogate endpoints — were not built for the questions reporters and policy bodies ask of it. Reading any claim requires understanding what each study design can and cannot prove.

13 min read

The argument that most chronic Western diseases — type 2 diabetes, heart disease, NAFLD, PCOS, hypertension, Alzheimer's, several cancers — share a single upstream defect: insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and the cluster of cellular pathologies that follow.

15 min read

U.S. dietary advice is shaped less by science than by a regulated political economy: USDA's dual mandate, government-enforced industry checkoffs, the GRAS loophole, industry-funded science, the tobacco playbook applied to food, and lobbying that has softened every 'eat less' message since 1977.

16 min read

A 130-year chronological account of how American dietary advice was built — from Atwater's calorie in 1894 through the McGovern Report, the Food Pyramid, MyPlate, and the 2020 DGAC's refusal to recommend ultra-processed-food reduction — and the political mechanisms that kept the guidance trailing the science.

12 min read

A condition-by-condition walk through what medical nutrition therapy actually entails for type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, gout, IBS, IBD, celiac, cardiovascular disease, and eating-disorder recovery. Physician-facing, non-prescriptive.

18 min read

The nutrient priorities and feeding strategies that change at each developmental stage — preconception, pregnancy, infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, adolescence, adult years, perimenopause and menopause, older adulthood, and frailty. A generic 'healthy diet' is malpractice in a clinical encounter; each stage has its own at-risk nutrients, screening tools, and feeding architecture.

17 min read

Restriction is the single strongest behavioral predictor of disordered eating. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, weight-cycling research, and four decades of intuitive-eating data converge on one finding: the diet causes the symptoms diet culture blames on the dieter. Choosing real food over ultra-processed food is not the same behavior — the difference shows up in shame, rigidity, body distortion, and obsession.

14 min read

The global food system is the single largest driver of environmental change on Earth — responsible for roughly a quarter of greenhouse-gas emissions, most freshwater withdrawal, most ocean and river eutrophication, and most biodiversity loss. The EAT-Lancet Commission and life-cycle analyses converge on the same lever: shifting away from red meat and dairy toward minimally processed plants is the high-leverage individual move. Local sourcing, recycling packaging, and avoiding plastic straws are not.

16 min read

A reusable seven-question checklist for assessing any nutrition claim — a TikTok, a podcast hot take, a news headline, a supplement label, a doctor's offhand remark — in under a minute. Synthesizes the study-design hierarchy, the relative-vs-absolute-risk trap, and the industry-funding signature into a tool you can run on anything.

15 min read

Heating raw ingredients yourself is the single highest-leverage move in nutrition: it controls portion, salt, sugar, fat, and ingredient origin in one move, and quietly retrains the palate that synthetic flavor has been deceiving.

14 min read