Escape From Caloriegate

Today, Caloriegate is excited to welcome Jonathan Bailor, a nutrition and exercise expert and author of The Smarter Science of Slim and The Calorie Myth. After collaborating with top scientists for over 10 years, analyzing over 1,300 studies, and garnering endorsements by top doctors from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Yale, and UCLA, Jonathan is helping […]

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Welcome back to Escape from Caloriegate! Today, we welcome the web's most popular low carb blogger (and one of my inspirations), Jimmy Moore of Livin' La Vida Low Carb fame. Jimmy's a steady voice of reason in world of unbelievable "diet insanity." We had a great chat about Diet Info Overload Syndrome. Check it out! Kevin Kennedy-Spaien is the secret behind both our shows - gotta love the DIsc of Light Media empire;

Welcome back to Escape from Caloriegate! Today, we're going to leverage "meta-thinking" -- a.k.a. thinking about thinking -- to manage Diet Info Overload Syndrome. We typically use a combo of eight strategies to deal with info-overload. Today, we'll explore a ninth strategy: meta-thinking.

Welcome to Episode 10 of Escape from Caloriegate! It’s time to address a HUGELY critical topic that no one seems to be blogging about in the diet/health world. I call it “Diet Information Overload Syndrome.” You probably don’t have a name for it, but you’ll know instantly what I’m talking about. You’re passionate about eating […]

In this week’s episode of Escape from Caloriegate, we welcome Alan Watson of DietHeartNews.com. Alan is an accomplished author and nutrition researcher, whose works include “21 Days to a Healthy Heart” (2002) and “Cereal Killer: The Unintended Consequences of the Low Fat Diet” (2008). I believe his “Illustrated History of Heart Disease 1825-2015” piece is […]

Welcome back to Escape from Caloriegate! Today, we welcome Kyle Taylor, an experienced entrepreneur who runs an awesome website/podcast called Thriving The MIDDLE Class. Kyle’s on a mission to educate would-be entrepreneurs to take the leap and discover the power of business ownership. He interviews diverse business owners (online and offline) to share their knowledge […]

Get ready to have your beliefs about addiction turned upside down (in a good way)! Whether you’re struggling with carb cravings or worried about a loved one who’s battling alcoholism, this podcast could be the most important 39 minutes of your entire year. Seriously! So put your listening ears on… Today, Escape from Caloriegate welcomes […]

Welcome back to Escape from Caloriegate! Today, we welcome Dr. S. Andrei Ostric — also known as “Dr. O” — a Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon based in Chicago who’s fired up by a passion to help people restore youth and beauty. Dr. O also hosts an awesome health and diet podcast, the Dr. O Show, […]

Welcome to Episode 5 of Escape from Caloriegate! Today’s our first episode that does not consist solely of me ranting into the microphone about how calories don’t “count” in the way everyone thinks they do or speculating grandiosely on the nature of science or on the controversial ideas of iconoclasts like Gary Taubes and Steven […]

In Episode 4 of “Escape from Caloriegate,” I shine light on the elephant in the room. Who CARES about all this arcane “diet stuff”? Why does it matter? Why should you – or anyone, for that matter – bother spending more than a few hours thinking about this subject? Here’s why. The “Caloriegate” phenomenon has […]

In Episode 3 of “Escape from Caloriegate,” I introduce a new metaphor to explain Bergmann and Bauer’s lipophilia idea, using a hilarious bit from one of my favorite shows, South Park. I believe new metaphors — new ways of looking at old problems — can be the key to powerful insight and also some good […]

In Episode 2 of “Escape from Caloriegate,” I go completely off the rails and introduce an idea that I believe may be my greatest legacy to humanity — a grandiose but hopefully compelling concept called “The Tensor.” This represents the beginning of an attempt to place Caloriegate into some kind of context, so we can […]

Welcome! In the inaugural episode of “Escape from Caloriegate,” I assault one of the most deeply entrenched ideas in health/nutrition: the doctrine of “calories in calories out.” This episode and the next few that follow it will consist of me rambling into the microphone solo, in an attempt to get you to think in radical […]