The junk science-fueled war against soda continues.
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Category: Food, Beverages & Diet
Claim: Diet soda causes dementia
Claim: Trans fat bans reducing heart attacks
Q: How do you know when trans fats researchers are lying?
A: They publish papers like this one.
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Fish oil-heart disease con exposed (again)
I featured the fish oil con in my 2001 book “Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams.”
Claim: Unhealthy diets linked to more than 400,000 cardiovascular deaths
Junk science kills. Not food.
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Claim: Sodium intake high, rising among people with high blood pressure
The dietary salt scare rolls on despite reality.
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Claim: Lack of fruits & vegetables causes millions of years of life to be lost
Claim: Soy food consumption linked to prolonged survival in some breast cancer patients
There is no such thing as magical food. Vegetarian breast cancer victim Linda McCartney is a case in point for this sort of junk science.
Food nanny nonsense: Calorie restriction lets monkeys live long and prosper
Here’s the problem: “This new insight appears to be particularly important in primates and likely is translatable to humans.”
IMAGE: A 2009 IMAGE OF RHESUS MONKEYS IN A LANDMARK STUDY OF THE BENEFITS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION. THE THEN 27-YEAR-OLD MONKEY ON THE LEFT WAS GIVEN A DIET WITH FEWER CALORIES.
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Claim: Nutritional quality of kids’ menus at chain restaurants not improving
Feeding the false dichotomy of “healthy” food versus “unhealthy” food.
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Claim: Processed meats cause asthma
This study is a weiner — and not the good kind.
Study: Daily sugar intake guidelines are based on low quality evidence
Odd… an accompanying editorial criticizes not the study’s science… but the funding of the study.
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