Nutrition: Lower blood sugar cuts heart attack risk
Another flip flop in nutrition science.
Health: Autism might be linked to vitamin D, iron, B-12 deficiency
Study suggests 40% of autism cases may be due to vitamin D and iron deficiency, and could be linked to a sharp decline in eating beef.
Public health: Your lifespan may be half determined by your genes
We've been led down a path that your health is determined primarily by what you eat. But that hypothesis might be mostly wrong.
AI assessment of “vegan eating is seeing explosive growth” (it’s not)
Actual data shows vegan eating in decline, while the media trumpets stories about "explosive growth" in veganism.
Nutrition: Researchers find vegan diet more effective at causing B-12 deficiency
More bogus nutrition studies disconnected from reality.
Nutrition: Very low fat diets may cause gallbladder inflammation
Very low-fat diets can lead to gallbladder inflammation.
Now with 35% more protein!
The new "more protein" offerings from fast food vendors (famous for selling sugar!) is mostly a scam to raise prices.
Nutrition: “The Vegan Boom Has Collapsed”
Vegan/vegetarianism is a niche market given excessive media attention. How small? Just 4% of US adults are vegetarian as of 2023, 1% vegan.
Public health: Influenza trend
Despite the media hyperventilating over the flu, it looks like the season has possibly peaked.
Public health: “Microplastics” in our bodies might not be real
The "microplastics" fears may have been false positive artifacts of bad science.