This is crazy. Really.
Category: Food, Beverages & Diet
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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Another Food Myth Busted: Whole-fat milk consumption associated with leaner children
“The study’s findings differ from Health Canada, National Institutes of Health and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines recommending two servings of low fat (one per cent or two per cent) milk for children over the age of two to reduce the risk of childhood obesity.” Continue reading Another Food Myth Busted: Whole-fat milk consumption associated with leaner children