Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

Body-shaming is a food nanny fail. Continue reading Study: School labelling of kids as fat not an effective tool in curbing obesity

Another for the “magic food” file. Continue reading Claim: High daily coffee consumption may lower MS risk

For the ‘magical food’ file — based on the perpetual junk science machine known as the Nurses Health Study. Continue reading Claim: Yogurt may protect women from developing high blood pressure

Today entry for the ‘magical food’ file. Continue reading Claim: Yogurt may protect women from developing high blood pressure

Tortured lab mice are not tiny people. No such thing as magical food. Continue reading Claim: Study shows broccoli may offer protection against liver cancer

Wow… researchers discover that consuming two energy drinks at once will jump start your body for a couple hours. Nobel prize stuff — NOT. Continue reading Claim: Energy drinks trigger abnormal heart rhythm, rise in blood pressure

Black triangles to scare people about salt? Continue reading New York City salt warning law temporarily halted

From Stanford’s John Ioannidis. Continue reading Salt and the assault of opinion on evidence

Nonsense. Lamarckism masquerading as “epigenetics.” Continue reading Claim: Alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects multiple generations

Sorry, past the absence of any real-world evidence, Sprague-Dawley rats aren’t little people. Continue reading Claim: Sugar May Be As Damaging To The Brain As Extreme Stress Or Abuse

High-cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically predisposed. Continue reading High-cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack

JunkScience.com has long been a critic of the notion of BMI. Continue reading Study: High BMIs may not indicate unhealthiness