Recent Content by Richard Feinman

The answer is that obesity does not cause diabetes in general. They can both be treated with low-carbohydrate diets and when you do that you can see that they are separate since diabetes can be improved without weight loss. We don 't know what causes diabetes but it is likely that reducing carbs...

Aspartame has three components, phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol into which it is broken down in digestion. All are naturally occurring, Only the last is toxic at high doses but you would have to have quite a bit to exceed the amount of methanol normally found in food but that is up to...

If you are generally low carb then starch is almost surely worse than sugar. The idea that fructose is processed differently than glucose and uniquely effects fat in the liver is a huge exaggerration and, if important at all, only applies at high total carbohydrate intake. Sugar hysteria is not...