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Travis Saunders selects several notable posts each week from Health and Clinical Research. He blogs at Obesity Panacea.

The past two weeks have seen a tremendous number of posts in the areas of nutrition and obesity, so I decided to indulge myself by selecting my favorites for this week’s Selections.

• The Incredible Egg.  Are eggs healthy?  Colby Vorland of Nutritional Blogma dishes up a comprehensive review of the evidence, and concludes that they’re not as bad as we’ve been led to believe.
• Obesity: The Role of the Immune System.  Byte Size Biology examines how the bacteria in your gut influence your risk of obesity and metabolic dysfunction.
• Teaching About Diet and Exercise Promotes Anti-Fat Bias.  How is that even possible?  Dr Sharma explains.
• Battle of the Diets: Mediterranean vs DASH.  Dave Munger of DailyMonthly compares the two popular diets and comes to an extremely sensible conclusion – the best diet is the one you can follow.

See you next week!

Travis

Travis Saunders selects several notable posts each week from Health and Clinical Research. He blogs at Obesity Panacea.

• Colby Vorland of Nutritional Blogma examines whether the sense of smell mediates the relationship between caloric restriction and longevity.  His first post and it’s a great start!
• Byte Size Biology has my favourite (that’s how we spell “favorite” in Canada) title of the week with their interesting post “The Craigslist of Antibiotic Resistance“
• Neuroskeptic argues that there is too much exploratory research and too little hypothesis testing in the field of neuroimaging.