Food & Nutrition

A recent article in the Times swallowed whole a junk study about an increase in death from eating red meat. ACSH advisor and biostatistician Dr. Stan Young dissected out the fat, bone, and grizzle, and found... nothing left.

The rise in obesity and diabetes has many causes, genetic, lifestyle, and of course, our dietary choices especially a perennial villain, sugar.

It's amazing what sort of nonsense shows up in your inbox every day. I always wonder who falls for this stuff, but it must be a substantial number of people. Otherwise, spammers wouldn't spam.

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The FDA has delayed labeling of our foods “added sugar” content until 2020, a new paper in Circulation tallies the costs and benefits of the policy in general.

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A new analysis looks at the impact of diet, writ large, on the “global burden of disease,” that is to say what in our diet is linked [1] to disease and to what extent.

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Routine doctor's appointments usually end the same way. The doctor encourages you to exercise, stress less, and eat healthy, usually mentioning something about vegetables and fiber.

We all know the basics of healthy living, eat right, get enough sleep, move around. But it can be hard to get enough sleep if your homeless, tough to eat right if you live in a “food desert,” and well, at least you can move around.