Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Aspartame Doesn't Increase Lean Adults' Weights, Appetites, Or Blood Sugars, In 12 Week Randomized Controlled Trial

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So what happens to healthy, lean, adults, if you randomly assign them to consume 0mg, 350mg or 1,050mg of aspartame daily for 12 weeks? No...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Ontario Schools Inviting Pizza Nova To Teach Nutrition To Kindergarteners Is Apparently A Thing Now

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Thanks to a colleague that probably should remain nameless for sending me this story about his 7 year old's recent nutrition lesson. H...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Saturday Stories: American Army Morale, Nuclear Power Fears, And Vitamins

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Phil Klay, in The Atlantic, on the plunging morale of the American Army . Nathanael Johnson, in Grist, on nuclear power and nuclear fears ...
Monday, April 09, 2018

Tony Robbins, With Estimated Net Worth of $500 Million, Not Rich Enough, Peddles Expensive Nutritional Bullshit

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Thanks to my friend and colleague Brant Slomovic who alerted me to the fact that self-help guru Tony Robbins has apparently got himself int...
Saturday, April 07, 2018

Saturday Stories: Awfulness Edition

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Sarah Boesveld, in Chatelaine, describing the horrific world of teen girls and social media . Michael J. Koplow, in Israel Policy Forum, d...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Guest Post: Coca-Cola's "Commitment To Transparency" Fails To Identify Over 95% Of The Authors They've Funded Since 2008

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Today's guest posters Paulo Serôdio, Martin McKee, and David Stuckler, recently published a paper in Public Health Nutrition about Coca...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Saturday Stories: Death, Bike Riding, And Cow Surfactant

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By Sue Rangell (derivative), Marc29th (original) [ CC BY-SA 1.0 or GFDL ], via Wikimedia Commons Rachel Aviv, in The New Yorker, asks wh...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Watch Out For These 83 Weaselly, Quacktacular, Words

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A few days ago I asked on Twitter for people's red flags of quackery words - words that if seen might suggest a less than evidence based...
Monday, March 26, 2018

What's Wrong With This Picture?

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If Waterloo's Albert McCormack Community Centre wants people to drink fewer sugar sweetened beverages, instead of putting a sign up te...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Saturday Stories: A No Longer Unknown Woman, Tumors and Transformations, and Kayaking Across the Atlantic

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Jacey Fortin, in The New York Times, on the hunt for the only woman in a photo of 38 scientists from the 1971 International Conference on th...