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USDA Report: We Eat Less Fat, But Fat Is Killing Us
A new report from the USDA says Americans are eating less fat than we did 30 years ago. Here’s the opening from an online article about the report: On average, Americans are eating 10g less fat per...
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The Spanish Paradox
An article with the title No Room for Complacency in Face of Spanish CV Paradox showed up on Medscape today. Let’s take a look at some choice bits: The first study to report population-based data on...
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The Latest “Meat Kills!” Study
Here we go again with the latest “Meat Kills!” study. You may have already seen it reported in the news with headlines like Vegetarians cut heart disease risk. Here are some quotes from that article:...
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Here We Go Again: Another Meat Kills! Study
You’ve got to give the anti-meat hysterics credit for their creativity. Since they can’t prove directly that eating meat will kill you, they’ve become quite adept at stringing unrelated results...
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Serving-Size Nonsense
One of the many failed diet strategies I tried back in the day was serving myself portion-controlled meals. I’d nuke a Healthy Choice dinner, or a Weight Watchers Smart Ones dinner, or a Lean Cuisine...
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It’s Official: Obesity Is Now A Disease
I was a guest on the Sun News Network in Canada this morning, talking about the American Medical Association’s decision to classify obesity as a disease – not as a marker of disease, but as a disease...
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Dr. Kendrick On Bad Science
If you like seeing bad science and bad policy ripped apart by someone with a sharp wit, I can’t recommend Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s blog highly enough. (Same goes for his book The Great Cholesterol Con.)...
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The Men Who Made Us Thin, Part Two
Here’s the second episode of the BBC documentary series The Men Who Made Us Thin. This episode deals with exercise and drugs as failed methods for treating obesity. The first half takes us down memory...
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Bad Science And Cheap Drunks
It’s not exactly diet-related, but how’s this for a classic case of confusing correlation with causation? An article on the NBC News site reported on a study of what people were drinking before...
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The Farm Report: Release The Beasts
Okay, they’re not exactly beasts and they haven’t exactly been released, but our 18 chicks are now living outside in the portable coop Chareva constructed. The one real design flaw was the wheels...
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The Farm Report: Bridge Over Troubled Water
I apologize for the lengthy delay in posting and answering comments. It was a strange and sometimes stressful week with virtually zero time for blogging. I finally had some free time over the...
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Meat and Eggs
Several people asked if I planned to take apart the latest “meat kills!” study to make a big media splash. In case you missed it, here’s part of one of the many, many articles about the study that hit...
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The (Statin) Empire Strikes Back
Six months ago or so, I wrote a couple of posts praising a two-part series titled The Heart of the Matter, which ran on ABC Catalyst in Australia. I also embedded videos of the episodes that ABC...
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How To Sell Canola Oil With Almost-Science
Well, lookie here … turns out canola oil may help people with type 2 diabetes control their glucose levels. At least that’s the conclusion from a study reported in Science Daily with the rah-rah...
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Ancel Keys Had A Tiny One
Yup, and I can prove it: Ancel Keys had a tiny dataset — but that didn’t stop him from leaping to big conclusions. Nina Teicholz wrote about Keys’ problematic data in the terrific book The Big Fat...
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Health Researchers Stroking Themselves About Social Inequality
I receive email alerts from MedPageToday online. Here’s the headline for a recent alert: Stroke Rounds: Less Educated Smokers at Higher Stroke Risk The article is about a large observational study...
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U.S. News Ranks the Diets
It’s January, which means millions of people are either already on a weight-loss diet or considering one. If you watch TV this time of year, you can’t help but see ads for Jenny Craig, NutriSystem,...
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Wholly Stupid Conclusions About Whole Grains
Take a look at this headline from a Shape magazine online article – but I’m warning you, if you’re prone to head-bang-on-desk incidents like I am, you’d best don your helmet before continuing. Low Carb...
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Twitter And #HeartAttacks?
As you know if you’re a regular reader, I’ve been yelling and screaming for years about the lousy science that convinced Americans heart disease is caused by eating too much fat and cholesterol. From...
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The Anointed Know Why You’re Fat And What To Do About It
A couple of news items landed in my inbox recently that aren’t directly related, but they’re both examples of the Vision of The Anointed at work. I gave a brief summary of The Vision of The Anointed...
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