dietary science

This is the man: http://www.tim-spector.co.uk In short, he has many assertions about health and diet which can be boiled down to saying that almost everything commonly claimed to be understood about diet and health is wrong and that instead of worrying about vitamins and diets, we should be...

The 1994 discovery of the hormone Leptin has led to exponential incremental scientific discoveries and now its role (in obesity in particular) is becoming more widely known. https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/26554-jeffrey-m-friedman-to-receive-2020-breakthrough-prize-in-life-sciences/ "Jeffrey...

Gary Taubes at Low Carb Houston, 2018 A long presentation, but very thought provoking IMO The global obesity epidemic: Is dietary and animal fat the culprit? Evidence based on 20 years of investigative journalism. cm5Cdy4-KtU The World Health Organization contends " The fundamental cause of...

From "Time" magazine: I don't see how it's even possible either. Burning 700 calories less a day means adding a pound a week. This wasn't particularly healthy weight loss as it encourages crash dieting and muscle mass may be loss. The person also doesn't have to lug that weight around but this...

Not news to most I'm sure but even though I felt I was good about this, I took a look closer and realized not as good as I thought........and amazed how some things aren't as bad as you might think while others are sneaky bad. eg: Cheese. A single slice or comparable pieces of many (most?)...

I was tempted to put this in Conspiracy Theories but it really belongs here. :) For those with a "tenuous grasp on dietary science" or the scientific method, or controlled studies, or statistics, or logic in general. Further: More at...

From the department of "No, don't hold back... tell us what you *really* think." BMJ: [Are some diets “mass murder”?] Excerpt: Blutoskitorial: It's an editorial by Richard Smith, who was actually editor of the BMJ for years and IMO highly esteemed. I also think he may be regrettably...

(This is an offshoot of my main post : BBC "Trust Me I'm A Doctor" = "Don't I'm a TV Doctor" as I first saw the concept in this TV show and as yet the topic appears to have no post of it's own on ISF) - The Michael Mosley TV show had a number of dodgy science practices however The Concept of...

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If You Believe in Science, Don’t Go Paleo An interesting article someone linked me to recently; on just how ignorant of actual paleo-history proponents of the paleo-diet really are. Addresses some of the sociological problems with it as well.

Hi. I've done a search for this forum on detoxing and detox scams and found some nice info about it in general but I'm interested in a specific detox diet and and specific symptom and it's real cause. It's the grape detox, where for two weeks all you eat is grapes and drink water (I think it...

Hi. I am trying to figure out how to eat healthy, and just get a lot of noise from the newspapers. Is there a good book for ignorant people that want to understand what is going on? P.S. I think of becoming a vegetarian, and if the book touches on this as well - better.

Anyone know anything about Sally Fallon and/or the Weston A. Price Foundation? Fallon wrote a popular book called Nourishing Traditions, and is affiliated with the WAPF. Some of what they say about diet and health sound reasonable to me--other stuff I'm not so sure about. But I'm no nutrition...

From an article I read in my morning paper: "Are cleansing diets myths?". The article takes a more rational approach to the topic, explaining what cleansing diets are, how they can be harmful, and how the body naturally detoxifies. Enjoy.

There has been plenty of research lately on the potential health benefits of restricted caloric intake involving various animals. CNN reported this morning on a group of people (they interviewed one couple) who have taken this very preliminary research to heart, and are enthusiastically...

So, awhile ago on another board, someone mentioned that America's obesity problem seemed to begin when manufacturers switched their sweetener from sugar to corn syrup. I was beginning my diet as I read this, though I didn't pay it much mind, and my mother was rather skeptical. I lost over a...

I have heard multiple times that because of all the preservatives in our diets cadivers last longer than normal. Do any of you know if this is true?

The Weekend Australian The dangers of detox diets By Emily Smith May 08, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2a5p3

I was wondering if there have been any studies on the diets of ants and what is most healthy for them. I mean, if you had several mounds of the same species of ant and fed one mound only fruit, one mound only veggies, one only corn syrup, and one only meat would the mounds end up with different...

Article As a friend of mine put it when I showed him the article over IM, "yea! In you face AMA! ... you want low fat Doctor? eat my a**"