Is it too much to ask of medical journal editors to verify references for key claims? After all, just because a study author footnotes a claim, should that act automatically enshrine the claim with credibility? Continue reading Lancet editors miss bogus reference on Japanese longevity and salt intake
Category: Food, Beverages & Diet
Meat linked with diabetes?
A new study claims to link consumption of red and processed meat with increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here’s why you should ignore it. Continue reading Meat linked with diabetes?
High fructose corn syrup increases risk factors for heart disease?
I dunno…. can you get heart disease in two weeks? Continue reading High fructose corn syrup increases risk factors for heart disease?
Failure: Calorie labeling on menus
A new study in the British Medical Journal reports that calorie labeling on restaurant menus has largely failed to reduce calorie consumption at fast food restaurants. Continue reading Failure: Calorie labeling on menus
New green fraud: Organic water
Even the comrades at Mother Jones are upset about “organic water” bottled by Llanllyr Source in Wales. The LLanlyr web site states: Continue reading New green fraud: Organic water
Study: Eggs may help prevent heart disease and cancer
We don’t believe in magical “healthy” foods that (somehow) ward off chronic disease, but this study reports that cooked eggs have antioxidant properties equivalent to apples. An egg a day keeps the doctor away?
More salt in anti-salt's wound
“Moderate reductions in the amount of salt people eat doesn’t reduce their likelihood of dying or experiencing cardiovascular disease,” reports a systematic review published in the latest edition of The Cochrane Library.
Warmer: 'Fire Up the Grill, Not the Atmosphere'
In the wake of Brian Palmer’s BBQ-ing-causes-global-warming op-ed in today’s New York Times, we are even more excited about grilling several cows over many bags of charcoal this Independence Day weekend.
Glass-fed beef?
Grass-fed beef has been replaced by glass-fed beef as a climate palliative. “Meat grown artificially in labs could be a greener alternative for consumers who cannot bear to go vegetarian but want to cut the environmental impact of their food,” reports The Guardian.
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium
From Dave Mastio, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times:
Right now, someone nearby is buying organic bean sprouts. It may be the last thing he ever does. Last week’s E. coli outbreak in Germany — potentially traced to an organic farm — was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century.
Indeed, in the past two years, two public safety stories have dominated global news headlines – an explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan. Yet in the recent German organic-food-disease outbreak, nearly twice as many people already have died as in the two other industrial disasters combined…
Meatheads: MD Anderson grilling scare won't cure cancer or cover up failure
The University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center can’t “make cancer history” through treatment so it’s decided to blame meat? Continue reading Meatheads: MD Anderson grilling scare won't cure cancer or cover up failure
Caffeine delays conception?
Let’s see if I can do this with some, ahem, decorum… do couples trying to get pregnant get to have more fun if the woman drinks lots of coffee, tea or cola? Continue reading Caffeine delays conception?