Investigate the Alternate Hypothesis

Ever since the publication of Gary’s Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories, folks within the low-carb community have suggested and discussed various study designs to investigate the alternate hypothesis, the “Carbohydrate Hypothesis”, explored in the book.  The biggest issue isn’t so much designing a study, but funding a study large enough and controlled enough to reach valid conclusions.

 

With obesity considered one of the most pressing health issues of our time, wouldn’t it be great if we could find the resources necessary to investigate, in a really well done trial, that alternate hypothesis?

 

Enter Project 10¹⁰⁰  -  a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

 

Project 10¹⁰⁰ is accepting submissions of ideas for projects until October 20, 2008.  One hundred ideas will be selected for public review and voting to narrow the field to twenty semi-finalists.  An advisory board will then select five projects to fund from a commitment by Google of $10-million dollars.

 

One category is “Health” and the critera provided to help those submitting ideas includes:

 

Criteria:

• Reach: How many people would this idea affect?
• Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need?
• Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two?
• Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is your idea?
• Longevity: How long will the idea’s impact last?

Project 10¹⁰⁰ may be a way to fund a study to investigate the Carbohydrate Hypothesis!

 

If you’d like to submit your ideas, you can go to the Project 10¹⁰⁰ website, or directly to the submission page.

Gary Taubes – Columbia, MO – November 2008

Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and three time winner of the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society award, is scheduled to present his lecture, The Quality of Calories: Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Diet, Exercise and Obesity, on November 13, 2008 in Columbia, Missouri.

The event is sponsored by the Boone County Medical Society and the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Missouri.  It is free and open to the public.  Registration is strongly recommended as seating is limited.

The presenation will take place at the Monsanto Auditorium (University of Missouri) at 2:30pm and will be followed by a reception in the McQuinn Atrium.  More details are on the flyer below.  To register online, click here.