(CC BY-SA 2.0) byMelissa Wiese/Flickr A Sordid Tale of Science for Sale The evidence keeps piling up that we’ve been wrongly blaming dietary saturated fats for things like obesity and heart disease when in fact we should have been concerned with an even more insidious cause of health …
More Proof that it’s a Nutritional Minefield Out There Jeepers, it’s been more than three months since our last installment of “Late Night TV Jokes About America’s Eating Habits and What Observations One Might Draw From Them,” a premise whose wording seems to change every time I introduce it. …
(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Patrick Feller/Flickr And Dare We Use the D-Word? I was researching a post a few months ago — I honestly don’t recall which one — and tucked away on Table 3 in an impressively comprehensive New England Journal of Medicine article titled “Facts About …
(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Sundi Hayes/Flickr And No, We’re Not Speaking Figuratively Pop Quiz: Which American population segment has experienced an unprecedented spike in its rates of early death since the start of this century? No, not that one. Nope, not that one either. Try the one that …