Nature is one of the world’s most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals. It can be difficult to slog through research papers, so they also publish an interesting supplement called Nature Outlook. The articles are more in-depth, written in plain English, and are free to everyone. They do a great job of summarizing complicated and contentious issues.…
I still hear most people demonize fat (especially saturated fat), salt, and cholesterol (especially eggs) despite a significant amount of research that says otherwise. Perhaps many decades of having it pounded into everyone will take some undoing.
I thought I’d collect some references to recent research that covers these maligned nutrients.…
(Note that in 2018 an article was published that supports what I’m saying here)
What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?
For a long time, I put homeopathy in the same category as organized religion. I felt both were based primarily on faith with little science to back them up.…
I was reading this story today about kids in Arkansas mistakenly drinking windshield wiper fluid:
10 kids drink windshield wiper fluid at daycare
The comments are filled with:
Surprisingly few people have noticed, but I lost 65 pounds in the last 7 years! It was pretty evenly distributed so I didn’t look horrifying but I was unhappy about it.
I saw so many people I know fail so I decided to experiment and do things a little differently. A lot of it was common sense but some of it was unconventional.…
The upside of catching a nasty flu bug on my last week in New Zealand was getting a genuine glimpse inside a health care system outside the USA for the first time. Without getting into the pros and cons of socialized medicine, the experience was profoundly more humane and comfortable than I’m used to: