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Scientist or Science
Science is not a group that scientists join. It is not a club with rules of admission. Science is a way of figuring out the world. It is a method of investigation, a set of rules for determining what the … Continue reading
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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Multiple Themes
This morning I read on Nina Teicholz’s book website, “TheBigFat Surprise.com”, a complete blow-by-blow takedown of the advice that Doctor Dean Ornish put forth in his New York Times op-ed from about a month ago. At that time I had written … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, atkins diet, best diet, dietary supplements, ornish, paleo diet, pseudoscience, real food, real meat recipes, salmonella, science, teicholz, vitamins
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Pseudo-Science, Defined
There is science and the scientific method, and then there is pseudo-science. It can be difficult to tell the difference, but once you know about the scientific method it becomes much easier to tell them apart. From Wikipedia: The chief … Continue reading
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Tagged milk, milk is not good for you, milk is unhealthy, pseudoscience, science, scientific method, USDA
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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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Who Knows?
Seventy percent of US residents are overweight. Way back in 2008 it was estimated that obesity costed our health care system 150 billion dollars. Health care hasn’t gotten cheaper in the last six years, nor have less people become obese … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, Nutrition, nutrition education, obesity, science, shopping
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A Bagel Is No Different Than A Bag Of Skittles To Your Body
People, when they find out that science has changed the consensus opinion about a topic always have the same reaction “There they go again, first it’s bad for you, then it’s good for you!” In the 1950s science concluded, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged atkins, carbs, fat, saturated fats, science, sugar, time, unsaturated fats
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One Small Change at a Time 