Saturday, March 28, 2020

Saturday Stories: Some Of This Week's Most Important #COVID19 Reads

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Jennifer Yang, in The Toronto Star, speaks with 3 of Toronto's health care heroes. Adam Rogers, in Wired, explains what convalescent p...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Saturday Stories: Still Just Coronavirus Links - Guessing It Might Be This Way For A Little While At Least

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Gretchen Reynolds, in The New York Times, answers questions as to the safety of exercising in the face of COVID-19 Cornelia Griggs, in The...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Saturday Stories: #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve #CancelEverything Edition

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7 views on why social distancing is so important right now and why we have to " cancel everything ". If you think that #COVID19 ...
Monday, March 09, 2020

TikTok Is All About Fat Shaming These Days

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I was driving with my 13 year old daughter on Saturday and we were just chatting. I asked her what was trending these days on her TikTok str...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Saturday Stories: Elizabeth Warren, Enabling Antisemites, Marathon Cheats, and COVID19

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Elie Mysal, in The Nation, with the depressing truth behind why Elizabeth Warren won't be America's next president.  Sharon Ott...
Monday, March 02, 2020

Australian Food Industry Launches World's Least Aggressive New Voluntary Self-Regulatory Effort

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Waiting for any industry to self-regulate itself is just plain dumb. Honestly, industry's job is to protect and promote sales, and tha...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Saturday Stories: Coronavirus Edition

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James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on how yes, you're probably going to get the coronavirus . Peter Daszak, in The New York Times, welcom...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Health Canada Fails Science And Canadians By Allowing Any Purported Weight Loss Supplements To Be Sold

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The latest of many systematic reviews and meta-analyses of herbal supplements for weight loss plainly makes the case that there is no justif...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Saturday Stories: CRISPR Ethics, Auschwitz' Survivors' Warnings, And Illegal Abortion

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Ethan Weiss, in STAT, with a personal essay about his daughter, albinism, CRISPR and ethics. Jonathan Freedland, in The Guardian, with th...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Oh My God The Nutrition World Is Painful

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Short post to say that watching people aggressively argue about their preferred diets of choice, and seeing reputable people willing to prop...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday Stories: Man-Boobs, Formula, And Shattered Identities

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James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on the bizarre and unfounded man-boob based backlash to plant-based meat . Hannah Ellis-Petersen, in The...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Why Service Provision Fatally Confounds All Diet Studies (5:2 Intermittent Fasting Edition)

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Last week I posted about a 5:2 intermittent fasting study that demonstrated terrible adherence with a 58% 5:2 drop out rate by the end of y...
Saturday, February 08, 2020

Saturday Stories: Gym Harassment, Toddler Milk, And Healthy Microbiomes

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Sirin Kale, in The Guardian, on how harassment in the gym stops women from working out. Olga Khazan, in The Atlantic, on the repulsive ri...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Year Long 5:2 Intermittent Fasting Study Reports It's No Better Or Worse Than A Horribly Restrictive Diet

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I started out planning to write about a different paper - a one year post intervention followup of people who had completed a prior year of...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Saturday Stories: Stretching, Microbiomes, And Supplements

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Alex Hutchinson, in Outside, on why you probably don't need to stretch. Peter J. Turnbaugh, in Nature, on diets and microbiomes . Ta...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Study Published Stating The Daily Mile Doesn't Improve Childhood Obesity Speaks To Risks Of Tying Weight To Exercise

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Published this week in the International Journal of Obesity is  Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of The Daily Mile on childhood weight...
Monday, January 27, 2020

If The Microbiome Is As All Important As We're Led To Believe Isn't That's All The More Reason Not To Mess With Yours?

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There's no denying the hype around the microbiome with buzz suggesting that it's integral to anything and everything - from our immu...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Saturday Stories: Coping, Flu Shot Crusading, And Conspiracying

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Thomas Harding, in The Guardian, on surviving the loss of his teenage son . Jason McBride, in Toronto Life, with a profile of the inimitab...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Should Statistically Significant But Clinically Meaningless Outcomes Still Be Reported As Significant?

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Rather than call out the specific paper that led to this blog post (I also don't want to add to its Altmetrics), just a question. If...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Saturday Stories: Black Medical Academics, Brittany Ran A Marathon, And Body Positivity

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Uché Blackstock, in STAT, on why black academic physicians like her are leaving their positions . Sam Brennan, in Fit Is a Feminist Issue,...