Public Health

What Next In The Saturated Fat, Cholesterol And Statin Controversy

For decades, Americans have been told that high blood cholesterol as a result of heavy saturated fat intake causes cardiovascular disease. As such, Statin drugs are often prescribed to curb cardiovascular disease  risk by lowering cholesterol. That convent ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2014 - 1:06pm

A Fishy Attempt To Link Glyphosate And Celiac Disease

Stephanie Seneff (a computer scientist at MIT),  and Anthony Samsel (a retired consultant), have recently been attempting to link the use of the herbicide glyphosate to a long list of modern maladies.  Their latest such attempt  to is Celiac disease.   The ...

Article - Steve Savage - Mar 31 2014 - 9:43pm

Suicide By Soda—Bullsweet!

In the mood to off yourself? I sure hope not, but if you are contemplating it, there is no need to use a gun, poison, or pills. Just take a sip of Diet Coke. Because anyone who takes headlines seriously—a universally bad idea—will be afraid to even look at ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Mar 31 2014 - 6:21pm

Beer McCarthyism- The Food Babe Goes After Breweries Again

Vani Hari, an earnest unqualified pundit who sells a lot of stuff on her website, implies you will look like her if you don't eat foods she cannot pronounce. And now she has gone after pizza. No big deal. Whereas people who eat at Subway are easily du ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:15pm

Oligomeric Procyanidins In Chocolate Could Help Prevent Diabetes

There is a great deal of interest how cocoa flavanols (a type of antioxidant) like monomers and procyanidins might prevent obesity and type-2 diabetes, though little is actually known how they might work.  A new study compared the impacts of long-term die ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 10:12am

Benefits Of Circumcision Exceed Risks 100 To 1

Like everything else in science and medicine, there is modern controversy about circumcision. In the United States the rate of circumcision is around 81%. A paper in Mayo Clinic Proceedings finds that the benefits of infant male circumcision to health exc ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 12:39am

Bright Morning Light May Be A Weight Loss Strategy

A Northwestern Medicine study reports the timing, intensity and duration of light exposure during the day is linked to your weight-- the first time this has been shown, though take population correlations with a grain of sunshine. People who had most of t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 11:15pm

Vegetarians Found To Have More Cancer, Allergies And Mental Health Disorders

Population-based studies have consistently shown that our diet has an influence on health- a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is recommended. But some people go overboard and just eat meat. Or just eat vegetables. Evidence for health benefits of exclusi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 12:20am

Raw Milk Is Not A Libertarian Issue- And Republicans Should Not Make It A GOP One

In American politics there is a comfortable détente about which science craziness to allow under the big tents- Republicans are okay if their members won't accept evidence of climate science or evolution while Democrats are fine if their voters don� ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2014 - 4:32pm

Tilapia Fatty Acid Combination Worse For You Than Bacon

Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Diet ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 3:53pm