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Sorry, Dr. Ornish, The Jig Is Up
It must be tough to be Dr. Dean Ornish these days. The man desperately wants to convince everyone to live on a low-fat vegetarian diet, and yet the Wisdom of Crowds effect is turning the tide in the...
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Studies Conclude That Meat Will Kill You … And Save Your Life
I wasn’t planning to write another post this week because I’m busy at work and trying to make headway on the book Chareva and I are producing. But a meat-and-mortality study showed up in my inbox,...
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Statins Don’t Cause Memory Loss? Are These Researchers Drunk?
Like most people, I’ve long assumed whiskey can have a negative impact on memory. The first time I drank whiskey (as a teenager, I’m sorry to say), my only memory after the fourth or fifth shot was of...
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Two Things That Ought To Change Everything
Two items have appeared the news lately that ought to change what most people think they know about diets and health – that is, if most people were aware of the news items. I covered one of them in a...
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The Cold Case Files: Cholesterol And Heart Disease
A production crew from Korea came to the Fat Head farm on Sunday to interview me and to film us collecting eggs and cooking them up with some sausage. The segments will go into a TV special about the...
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Big Soda Fights Back
Well, I guess we should have seen this one coming: Big Soda is fighting back, and they’re going to use “science” (ahem, ahem) as a weapon. (They already sell weapons of mass destruction, of course, but...
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That “Low-Fat Beats Low-Carb” Study
I’d have to dig through my Outlook archives to say for sure (and I won’t), but this one may have set the new record for the number of Did you see this?! emails I received. If you follow the health news...
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WHO’s Afraid Of Meat? … And Other Stuff
Yes, I know … I’ve been a bit of an absent landlord lately when it comes to the blog. As someone who’s written a film, speeches, roasts, a few stage shows back in the day, etc., I know that you have to...
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Of Mice And Men — Again
I saw the scary headlines a couple of days ago. You probably did too. The one that caught my attention was this: Diabetes expert warns paleo diet is dangerous and increases weight gain That headline...
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Of Mice And Men — Again … Again
When readers first linked to the “paleo diet makes you fat!” study in comments, I replied that I generally dismiss mouse and rat studies as irrelevant to humans, except in certain circumstances. I...
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The USDA, CSPI And Other Weenies
How’s this for perfect timing? The day after I wrote a post about weenies, Politico.com posted a news item that demonstrates the weenie mentality in action: In a sign that the nutrition space is as...
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Another Big Fat Fail For The Lipid Hypothesis
Bacterial pneumonia, once a leading killer of the old and the very young, is caused by (duh) bacteria. If you kill the bacteria, the pneumonia goes away. It doesn’t really matter how you kill the...
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Another Big Fat (and old) Fail For The Lipid Hypothesis
Several people posted comments or sent emails with links to articles about a “rediscovered” study from the 1960s. Let’s look at some quotes from the Washington Post article: It was one of the largest,...
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How To Trash Your Own Study Results
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a nutrition scientist. But I repeat myself. Sorry, just couldn’t resist borrowing from Mark Twain. Let me try again. Suppose you’re a nutrition...
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Our Government’s Continuing A-Salt On Science
The most recent Dietary Guidelines declared that cholesterol is “no longer a nutrient of concern.” Yup, after nearly 40 years of warning people away from egg yolks, the government folks finally...
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This Is Why So Many Australians Have Diabetes
Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans (who visited the Fat Head farm in 2015) sent me a link to an article warning diabetics away from the paleo diet. Let’s take a look: People with type 2 diabetes...
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A Sweet Deal For Harvard Scientists Helped Spark The Low-Fat Diet Craze
Follow the money. Follow the money. Follow the money. If you’ve seen Fat Head, you probably remember that line. Here’s a perfect example of why you should follow the money, as reported in The New...
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Falcons Fans Must Be Stuffing Themselves With Saturated Fat
Well, I guess fans of the Atlanta Falcons are stuffing themselves with saturated fat today. Meanwhile, fans of the New England Patriots – who saw their team stage the greatest comeback in Super Bowl...
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The Older Brother Has an Evidence-based Hissy Fit
Hi Fatheads, I told Tom I thought I felt another blog coming on, and he was happy to have the chance to spend the rest of the week putting the finishing touches on the final version of the Fat Head...
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The Older Brother Does an Evidence-Based Spit Take
Hey Fatheads! I know I usually do the right thing and disappear for a few months after commandeering The Big Chair, but this was too good not to share. I was perusing the local paper of record Monday...
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