Category: Dietary Supplmts.

One Minute Junking: Fish oil supplements cause heart attacks?

Links: BMJ study | Junk Science Judo

Food Fetishist Alert

I know how to get a certain group going–talk about eating healthy.
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Let's talk some more Taubes

Some reacted negatively to my applause for Gary Taubes.
Let’s discuss.
Continue reading Let's talk some more Taubes

I'm Toxic, Hand me the Detox Stuff

This is a very lucid discussion of another junkscience scam–detoxing.
Detoxing is a health food supplement type scam that pretends to eliminate something bad–kinda like purging and cleansing enemas. Nonsense.

The Detox Scam: How to spot it, and how to avoid it

Alternative Medicine (cont.)

A JunkScience.com fan sent a note of inquiry about a surge in alternative medicine talk and linked me to an item on WebMD about Alternative and Complementary methods of treating pain. Actually that is one place where the placebo effect of unscientific medicine can have good effects.
Let’s consider. Medicine for pain and psych stuff should always be liberally sprinkled with placebo laced methods. They work.
Benefits from placebo effect don’t mean you’re faking, it means you are cooperating and finding some chemical neurohumeral and psychological benefits.
Continue reading Alternative Medicine (cont.)

Stop it, There is no Magic

You think there are supplements or additives or changes in diet that will make magic?
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Scary Diet Supplement

Whoa partner–be careful on those dietary supplements. This one is lethal. Continue reading Scary Diet Supplement