Posted on Dec 5, 2019 | Comments Off on When Is A High Protein Diet Valuable?
In December, people begin to think about the new year, and that means resolutions to lose weight. Exercising is a lot of work and feeling hungry much of the time is not desirable so many will instead opt for diet plans. One popular diet is the Atkin's Diet, where natural sugars are replaced with protein, while another is the Ketogenic Diet, where sugars are replaced with fatty foods. Both seek to...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Nutritional Supplements And Fad Diets Still Don’t Work
A recent review of meta-analyses and 277 randomized controlled trials--in which nearly 1 million adults participated--to find out how various nutritional supplements and diets influenced mortality rates and cardiovascular outcomes found...not much.read...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Why Maple Syrup, Honey, And Cranberries Are Getting A Free Pass On FDA Sugar Labels
Is honey healthier than bleached white table sugar or brown sugar or high fructose corn syrup? If you ask people selling nutritional fads yes, but if you ask your mitochondria, sugar is sugar. It's the total, which means calories, that matter. in our increasingly wealthy, sedentary society.read...
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Posted on May 6, 2019 | Comments Off on WIRED Promotes Chemophobia About Sunscreen, But At Least The Trial Size Was Bigger Than Andrew Wakefield’s
A recent paper in JAMA should have EXPLORATORY in giant red letter across every page, or else journalists will use it to promote fear and doubt about sunscreens. Which is already happening.read...
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Posted on Apr 30, 2019 | Comments Off on FDA Approves IQOS Smoking Cessation Tool
Just over a year ago I testified before a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel in support of the iQOS device, a smoking replacement tool that heats tobacco but doesn't ignite it.read more
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Posted on Apr 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Urban Exposome: The Modern World Has Great Air Quality But You’d Never Know It Reading Environmental Health Perspectives
Poor people live in areas with more pollution, but pollution is relative in 2019.read more
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