Why doesn’t the mainstream realize that the latter is better? We both need to get started on this.
Category Archives: Health
Vegetarian Diet
I don’t know if this is true, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all: It apparently increases risk of heart disease and cancer.
Our Gut Bacteria
This topic came up in comments at yesterday’s nutrition post, but new research indicates that tampering with them may significantly reduce the risk of stroke.
The Imperial First Lady
The government is threatening to fine schools for not following Michelle’s child-abusive lunch program.
I wonder if someone could file a lawsuit demanding to see the science behind her recommendations? Because there is none.
Lipidophobia
Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise, was thrown off a panel discussing diet and nutrition, because her actual science-based views are apparently too heretical. Here’s a petition to get her reinstated.
A Feminist Picnic
…falls apart when no one is willing to make samwiches.
Maybe they’ve just realized that people should go paleo.
OK, probably not.
Growing Human Hearts From Stem Cells
The headline on the article is misleading, but this seems like good progress.
Not that (as far as I know) I need a replacement, but faster, please.
Epigenetic Aging
We may be able to turn it off, and reverse it. I’ve always been amused by (in Clarke’s words) the “distinguished elderly [or not so elderly] scientists” who think that the laws of physics require our bodies to deteriorate over time.
Via Glenn, who has some further thoughts.
BMI
Not exactly news to readers of this site, but it is a terrible measure of health.
The “Dangerous” Paleo Diet
Here’s your daily dose of stupid. Based on nine mice.
Future researchers will find bizarre the notion we thought lab mice were good analogs for humans in diet studies. https://t.co/xrT0dOoH02
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 19, 2016