A great article in Slate on how antioxidants don't work!
My piece in the Canadian Medical Association Journal detailing issues of weight bias in transplant medicine.
The New York Times take on the obesity is socially contagious controversy.
Stephan Guyenet covers the most recent example of Gary Taubes' rather characteristically rude style of interacting with folks who don't believe in carbohydrates being the sole contributors to societal obesity, then a day later, Stephan politely, but deeply, buries Gary's oversimplified dogma.
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If you listen to Gary Taubes, you would think that he just discovered something new - that processed carbs and sugar are bad for you. In 50s and early 60s, my health hero asked his viewers to eliminate these items from their diet ... http://bit.ly/r7VOI5
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A brilliant piece of work by Stephan Guyenet, thank you for the link! However, as one of the commenters posted, "I still don't know what to eat!"
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A comment on the anti oxidants might not help article.From my experience of people who take them,they often think that they therefore don^t have to eat proper nutrition or excercise.They think they can always do high risk behaviour & be protected by their "pill". The same goes for statins. I wish that context should of been taken into account rather than say antooxidants are useless.
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