Saturday, December 01, 2012

Saturday Stories: Facebook vs. Health Check, Denmark's Dead Fat Tax & Dairy

So Global News published a piece about my criticism of the Heart and Stroke Foundation's misleading Health Check. Then they asked for public opinion on Facebook. As of my typing this, of the responses that were either critical or supportive of Health Check, 25 of 27 were highly critical..

Marion Nestle talks about the demise of the poorly thought through Danish fat tax.

Yale's David Katz brilliantly summarizes the evidence on whether dairy is magic fairy food, or Satan sauce.

[And if you're not a Facebook or Twitter person, here's my weekly US News and World Report column - Of course there's such a thing as a bad food]