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Stephan J. Guyenet
Personal blog · stephanguyenet.comhealthscience
Stephan J. Guyenet's personal blog at stephanguyenet.com covers health and science. Since 2017, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar””. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stephan J. Guyenet's nutrition blog, which covers obesity, sugar, food reward, and the reliability of nutrition research and the journalism around it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The science of body weight and health
Most-linked posts?
- Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-27
- /thehungrybrain/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-27
- Microbiota and obesity: Is it all hype?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-26
- Why the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-29
What Hacker News says?
I'm not talking about China. I was just making an observation that "low quality food" is ultra-processed food. So if the Chinese are now eating ultra-processed food, like many of us in the US or Europe, then it's no wonder that obesity and diabetes is on the rise. > " as opposed to unconstrained individual choice " There's no such thing, you're not aware of many of the recent findings. I recommend you go read: https…
Comment linking /thehungrybrain/
on “How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?”Submitted Why the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI know and it would be pretty hard for Keto meals to not become palatable due to all the fat. Long term all weight loss diets are equally disappointing, because appetite does come back and compliance becomes an issue. At maintenance we can actually tolerate a lot, esp if we are lightly active, but if you want to lose weight, striving for better tasting food is a poor strategy. An excelent book on this subject is "Th…
Comment linking /references-for-my-debate-with-gary-taubes-on-the-joe-rogan-experience/
on “Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain”Submitted Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar” as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI would agree with banning any ads for children under 18 years old, b/c they get bombarded with ads for junk food on all media channels. Plus I would agree with media campaigns teaching people that sugary drinks are a leading cause of obesity. But I disagree with banning ads on sugary drinks specifically because I am increasingly concerned about recommending, taxing or banning foods based on weak scientific evidence…
Comment linking /references-for-my-debate-with-gary-taubes-on-the-joe-rogan-experience/
on “Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks”Submitted Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat is your opinion on this, quite damning review? http://www.stephanguyenet.com/bad-sugar-or-bad-journalism-an... as well as this one https://nutritionsciencefactcheck.com/2017/07/20/the-case-ag...
Comment linking /bad-sugar-or-bad-journalism-an-expert-review-of-the-case-against-sugar/
on “Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)”Submitted Interesting new genetic study on insulin secretion and body mass as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI’m talking about irreversible physiological changes caused by getting fat that don’t reverse after you lose weight. This is what makes keeping weight off after losing a bunch harder than maintaining the same weight if you’ve never been fat to start with. Things like damage in the hippocampus preventing normal leptin signaling. Once you’ve gotten fat, you’re pretty much fucked for life, even if you reverse the behav…
Comment linking /thehungrybrain/
on “My career of treating patients has ended”Submitted Does energy imbalance (calories in > out) cause obesity? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a lot of work done right now on formulation of defined faeces microbe sets, partly because most people expect that ultimately these treatments will have to be approved by the authorities. This is probably a good idea, as the microbiome consists of both bacteria, virus and eukaryote organisms, and the survey people use for 95% of all microbiome work can only capture the bacterial fraction, so a faeces transp…
Comment linking /microbiota-and-obesity-is-it-all-hype/
on “Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs”Submitted Where the praties grow: My seven-day potato diet experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> fasting, intermittent fasting, keto, carnivore etc diets. To preface, I'm a long-time intermittent fasting, and tend to eat fairly carnivorous (though supplement with a lot of vegetables and legumes). But none of what you've listed is a silver bullet. The research is pretty conclusive that the proximate cause of all metabolic disease is caloric intoxication.[1] Regardless of the timing and consumption of calories,…
Comment linking /why-the-carbohydrate-insulin-model-of-obesity-is-probably-wrong-a-supplementary-reply-to-ebbeling-and-ludwigs-jama-article/
on “Association of insulin resistance marker with severity and mortality of Covid-19”Submitted Microbiota and obesity: Is it all hype? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, probably a feedback loop. There is lots of research showing modern food is engineered for high "food reward value" which overcomes our satiety mechanisms, and is essentially addictive (e.g. https://www.stephanguyenet.com/thehungrybrain/ ). Not to say that modern processed food isn't also quite unhealthy - with mental health implications, I suspect it is the food reward aspect itself that is mostly responsible f…
Comment linking /thehungrybrain/
on “Social drinkers on obesity drugs lose the taste for alcohol”Submitted Why are some people “carboholics”? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSure. I'll just leave this here: https://www.stephanguyenet.com/nutrition-science-initiative-... https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-dollar40-million-nutrition... https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2021/09/17/gary_taubes...
Comment linking /nutrition-science-initiative-nusi-in-retrospect/
on “Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb”
