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Trust Me, It’s Related
The dreaded scientific reversal, covered very well in today’s New York Times, is a bane to healthy living on many fronts. The Times is talking about when medical advice is given based on old knowledge, that has to be changed … Continue reading
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Tagged dietary guidelines, food science, science, scientific method
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Ain’t She Pretty?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is possible to look at a pile of paint tints, varying colors, arrange them in such a pattern that they become more than just colors. They can take on the ability … Continue reading
Should I Care?
The New York Times says that Monsanto is paying scientists to find that there is nothing dangerous about eating genetically modified crops. Corporations have poured money into universities to fund research for decades, but now, the debate over bioengineered foods has escalated … Continue reading
Merchants of Doubt
There have always been men, across all times and regions, that would do anything for money. Men are easily corrupted and you cannot single out a more prevalent occupation, creed or race as more or less corruptible than any other. … Continue reading
Muddy Waters
When an octopus wants to avoid a predator it blasts out a screen of ink and darts of at high speed. When an industry wants to keep its gravy train on the rails it does a form of the same … Continue reading
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Tagged carbohydrates, Change for the Better, diabetes, diet, dietary standards, food science, pseudoscience
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Artificial Ingredients Kill Pets
According to this article on Salon.com, there are things you can eat, in normal doses that you should make sure that your pets don’t get into. One thing that will cause problems is related to the topics we discuss here in … Continue reading
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Tagged animal trials, artificial ingredients, artificial sweetener, food science, human trials, xylitol
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Bottles of Milk
It comes in a bottle. If it did not, you would never drink it–milk. I, for one, have always thought that human beings drinking the product of another species mammary glands as a beverage was an unnatural act. This act … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, food science, health claims, heart disease, milk, osteoporosis
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The Science is Still Out!
When writing about scientific progress, one of history’s greatest physicists, Max Planck wrote in 1950, “An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking addictions, diabetes, fatty liver disease, FDA, food science, high blood Pressure, real food, science, sugar, USDA
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Modern Day Alchemy
It is possible to turn trash into treasure. Consider the case of Coca Cola’s Vitamin Waters. According vitaminwater’s website, the Power -C flavor of vitaminwater delivers “zinc and vitamin C to power your immune system”; while the XXX offers “antioxidant vitamins to help fight free … Continue reading
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Tagged candy, FDA, Food Safety, food science, healthy eating, healthy foods, living healthy, minerals, product labelling, vitamins
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Cue Up Scary Music!
Right on time, the competing science is showing up where your gut microbes are concerned. Sorry, Your Gut Bacteria Are Not the Answer to All Your Health Problems This article from Mother Jones online starts with this line: We’re told … Continue reading
One Small Change at a Time 