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Atkins-bashing and the spirit of Bill Buckley
The headline read “Vascular effects of a low-carbohydrate high-protein diet.” The article, as anticipated, was trying to trash low carb diets. This is not uncommon. Those of us who work in the field...
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Evidence Based Medicine and Admissibility. III. Steinberg for the Prosecution.
In 1985 an NIH Consensus Conference was able to “establish beyond any reasonable doubt the close relationship between elevated blood cholesterol levels (as measured in serum or plasma) and coronary...
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Evidence Based Medicine and Admissibility. IV. The Oslo Diet-Heart Study.
“In the Viking era, they were already using skis…and over the centuries, the Norwegians have proved themselves good at little else.” –John Cleese, Norway, Home of Giants. With the 3-foot bookshelf of...
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No Sunshine Down Under: Comments on Larsen, et al.
“These results suggest that there is no superior long-term metabolic benefit of a high-protein diet over a high-carbohydrate in the management of type 2 diabetes.” The conclusion is from a paper by...
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The Office of Research Integrity Conference and the Crisis in Nutrition.
The headline in the BBC News is “Fat ‘disrupts sugar sensors causing type 2 diabetes’” The article does not attribute the quotation in the headline and the first sentence says “US researchers say they...
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The Nutrition Mess. Lessons from Moneyball.
Baseball is like church. Many attend. Few understand. — Leo Durocher. The movie Moneyball opens in theaters today. Based on Michael Lewis’sbook, it stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the General Manager...
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MedicineBall*: Harvard School of Public Health steps up to the Plate.
First published in October of 2011, this post announced a Q&A on line with Harvard’s Eric Rimm to answer question about the School of Public Health’s new “Healthy Eating Plate,” its own version of...
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