Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

Diet soda drinkers are probably already at greater risk of diabetes — that’s why they’re drinking diet soda. Continue reading Study: Diet sodas cause diabetes

Current nutritional labeling is a fraud. Continue reading FDA proposes to extend food labeling (libeling?) rules to supermarkets

Beware of nanny-staters bearing statistics. Continue reading Nanny State: Sharp drop in drink deaths follows alcohol price rise

The tax may kill 80,000 jobs and (we might add) not produce any health benefits whatsoever. Continue reading Report: Indonesian soda tax would cost gov’t revenues, kill jobs

The diet-heart hypothesis gets another body check. Continue reading Oops: PUFAs may actually increase risk of death in patients with heart disease

We don’t recommend that you drive or operate heavy machinery after consuming 4 drinks in 10 minutes — regardless whether the mixer is diet or regular. Continue reading Alcohol and diet soda may be a bad mix

Uh… did anyone ask whether he brushed his teeth? Continue reading Claim: Soft-drink addiction caused Australia man, 25, to lose teeth, get blood poisoning

Except that obesity is a symptom, not a disease. Continue reading ‘Obesity paradox’ solved?

But test tubes don’t get Alzheimer’s. Continue reading Magical Food: Vitamin D, omega-3 may help clear amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s

You’d think Alderman Ed Burke would be more worried about Chicago’s murder rate. Continue reading Cities, schools target energy drinks