The potato diet is a diet where you get most or even all of your calories from potatoes. Surprisingly, this is easy for many people to stick to, and participants who stayed on the diet for a full 2…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Eating a diet of nothing but potatoes (or almost nothing but potatoes) causes quick, effortless weight loss for many people. It’s not a matter of white-knuckling through a boring diet — people eat …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
A few people have asked us why we didn’t preregister the analysis for our potato diet study. We think this shows a certain kind of confusion about what preregistration is for, what science is all a…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
So we did this half-tato diet community trial. People signed up for a minimum of six weeks — two weeks of baseline, so we could see how their weight changed when they were eating as normal, and the…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
