Archive - Tyler’s Substack

An economist's guide to reducing linoleic acid intake

What are the best bang-for-buck strategies?

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Diet Trials of the first half of 2025

Potato diet success; Honey riff failure

Jun 14 •

March 2025

The Program That Fixed My Hips

"Pain comes from the brain, not the hips"

Mar 3 •

January 2025

Diet trials of 2024

In 2024, I read 10 books about health and nutrition, which greatly influenced how I think about food and nutrition.

Jan 8 •

December 2024

The 50 Books I read in 2024

2024 has undoubtedly been the year I’ve read the most books.

Dec 30, 2024 •

Have We Really Turned the Corner on Obesity in the United States?

A Deeper Look at the Data

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

My podcast episode with Lee Stitzel

I had the pleasure of appearing on Lee Stitzel’s Econ Buff podcast to discuss my recent paper on seed oils. It was an enjoyable conversation, so please…

Nov 27, 2024 •

October 2024

An economic perspective of obesity and seed oils

Since I tend to write quite a bit about health topics, I thought some of my readers might be interested in hearing about my latest research paper, which…

Oct 19, 2024 •

Two Years of *Two Meals A Day*

Grading my sustainability predictions

Oct 7, 2024 •

September 2024

How I've been using Claude for the past 6 months

About 6 months ago, the Claude 3 models were released, causing me to shift to Anthropic from Open AI for most of my LLM usage. Recently, I was talking…

Sep 20, 2024 •

January 2024

Should the Calorie Die?

What two recent books contribute to the "Calories In, Calories Out" debate

Jan 3, 2024 •

December 2023

The 35 Books I Read in 2023

2023 saw me read nearly 3 books per month.

Dec 19, 2023 •

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