Saturday, December 29, 2018

Saturday Stories: Body Nos, Blood Spatter Analysis, and Caregiver PTSD

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Christopher Solomon, in Outside, on when your body says no . Leora Smith, in ProPublica, on the virus of blood spatter analysis . Jenni...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Why You Might Want To Step Away From The Kale Chips

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. I spotted these as I wa...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Supplement Maker Arbonne Thinks You're An Idiot

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. Well truthfully I don...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Saturday Stories: Reptilian Overlords, Lin Wang, And Women In STEM

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Constance Grady, in Vox, explains how Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker believes Jews are the world's reptilian overlords and h...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Successful Weight Management May Depend on the Embrace of Imperfection

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. Or at least that's ...
Monday, December 17, 2018

New Obesity Study From the Annals of Idiotic Goalposts

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. If I looked at 279,000 ...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Saturday Stories: Canada's Genocide, The Immortal Susan Potter, And The Women's March

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Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, in The Conversation, on Canada's Genocide and the case of the Ahiarmiut. Cathy Newman, in National Geographi...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The False Dichotomy Between Food Calories and Food Quality

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. I come across it all th...
Monday, December 10, 2018

10 Easy Ways to Save Your Money and Improve Your Health in 2019

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. Who wouldn't want t...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

Saturday Stories: Personalized Medicine's Pitfalls, Tribes Over Truths, And Lakewood's Trouble

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Stephen Senn, in Nature, on the statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine Dan M. Kahan, in Scientific American, on why smart people ar...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Why I Resigned My Membership In The Obesity Society

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. For those of you wh...
Monday, December 03, 2018

What I Learned When I Actually Read That Prominent School Chocolate Milk Study

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. I was amazed by the upr...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Saturday Stories: The Death Of Family Medicine, Brain Terrorism, Alcohol, and A Final Movember Update

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Physician Frank Warsh, in his blog, writes about " the death of family medicine ", and though there are definitely those who don...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Call For Help Part 2: Are You Currently On A Diet? Can You Take 2 Minutes To Complete A VERY Short Survey About It?

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UPDATE: SURVEY CLOSED DUE TO RECEIVING SUFFICIENT RESPONSES. STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE SURVEYS THOUGH! Today's survey is a followup to the...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Once Again I'll Ask, Where The Hell Is Canada's New Food Guide?

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This post was first published back in June. Since then, still no Food Guide, as well as the real possibility that not releasing the Guide in...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Saturday Stories: Juice, George Soros, Death, and a Movember Update

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Ann Hui, in The Globe And Mail, with a great case study on how the food industry works by way of the machinations of Big Juice and their att...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Yes, Current Evidence Still Suggests That Replacing Saturated Fat With Unsaturated Fat Is Good For You

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I was somewhat disheartened the other day when in response to my post about the only 48 (I added "Get Vaccinated") words of health...
Monday, November 19, 2018

The Only 47 Words Of Health Advice You'll Ever Need

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[Yesterday  @DarrenM898   reminded me of this piece I wrote in 2015, and given the volume of the diet wars these days, thought I'd resha...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Saturday Stories: That Low-Carb Diet Study, Medical Conflicts Of Interest, Suicidal Help, And A Movember Update

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Julia Belluz, in Vox, with the best coverage of that new low-carb diet study that has everyone talking . John Mandrola, in Medscape, refle...
Monday, November 12, 2018

It Takes the Former Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute Just 42s To Summarize Why You Almost Certainly Don't Need Sports Drinks

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I caught this video a week or so ago. It features one of the world's most prominent sports nutrition scientists, Asker Jeukendrup, ans...