Tweet Just a quick note, I’ve been playing around with some ways to track publication counts over a number of different research areas within nutritional science to attempt to quantify trends. What I have so far is posted here: http://nutsci.org/nutrition-research-trends/ It uses NCBI E-Utilities, javascript, and Google Spreadsheets to automate tracking of paper count in the pubmed database for [...]

Tweet Like 2010 and 2009, here is my annual list of favorite personal posts, blogs, and twitter people. I hope it can help others discover new sources of information. This year I changed the blog domain to nutsci.org and hope to continue highlighting interesting research as I have time. Favorite Post Topics I didn’t write [...]

Tweet Last year around this time I put up a survey to learn more about reader demographics to this blog and posted some of the results here. It proved interesting so I’ve decided to do it again this year using the same questions to see if there are any differences. Here is the link to the survey: [...]

Tweet Yesterday and today I re-posted articles I wrote last year on Thanksgiving and overall holiday period weight gain, but for some reason they didn’t propagate through the RSS feed. Here is a link to both: Thanksgiving and weight gain: trivial or not, and riskier for the overweight? Holidays & weight gain: what the science suggests Thanks [...]

Tweet After nearly 2 years of blogging and nearly 2 years of planning the blog’s name change, I finally got to it this weekend. Nutritional Blogma (recomp.com/blogma) is now nutsci.org.  If you have a moment, please click through and let me know if anything doesn’t work properly. Why? Short and easier to remember, more relevant to [...]

Tweet Last fall I was invited to do a podcast from Travis Saunders and (now Dr.) Peter Janiszewski who blog at Obesity Panacea.  We touched briefly on clinical assessment capacities (stemming from more complex research assessments), and corporate food sponsorships.  We also talked about social media but Travis edited out those parts which may end up [...]

Tweet About a month ago I put up a link to a short, 10 question survey.  I let it run for a month and received 22 responses.  Thanks to everyone who filled it out- I honestly did not expect that many. While this data may not be representative of all readership, there were some interesting [...]

Tweet 2010 is over, so here is my annual list of favorite research that has been published over the year. Last year’s list was large as I was able to drag/drop references from Mendeley where I save papers, but for whatever reason it is not letting me do that this year.  So this time I [...]

Tweet Greetings, I started this blog a little over a year ago with no expectations or real direction.  It was meant first and foremost as a personal journey to organize my thoughts as I dig deep into various areas of nutrition research, and second as an outlet against what is a frustrating system of mainstream [...]

Tweet As 2009 comes to an end, it is time to reflect on some of this year’s scientific advancements. Please comment here, by email, or twitter on how I am doing with the blog so far.  Though I only started it a few months ago in September, I hope it has been a benefit to [...]