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Marion Nestle Knows Saturated Fat Causes Heart Disease. But I Don’t Know That.
I respect and appreciate the work of NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle, as does much of the organic food community. I cited her in my most recent post, on genetically modified organisms. And I...
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Fat Is Dense with Calories. But Does That Mean It’s Bad for You?
As I’ve noted before, I’m skeptical that saturated fat is causing our country’s quadruplet epidemics of heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes. At best, the scientific evidence on this is mixed....
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Does Diet Soda Increase Your Risk of Stroke?
A new study presented to the American Stroke Association shows a link between diet soda consumption and higher rates of stroke and heart disease. According to the study, people who reported drinking...
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Is Diet Soda a Cancer Risk?
I posted last week about a new study that shows a 60% increase in heart disease risk for people who drink a diet soda every day. For people like me who aren’t crazy about the chemicals in diet soda,...
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Trans Fats Tied to Depression
A study from Spain last month found a correlation between trans fat intake and the risk of depression. The study followed 12,000 university graduates for six years. None of the subjects was depressed...
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High-Protein, Low-Carb. Bad for the Colon?
In one of the least-conclusive studies I’ve seen, UK researchers recently found that high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets may pose health risks to your colon. This study is questionable on so many...
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Does Salt Actually Raise Your Blood Pressure?
Americans know that salt raises your blood pressure. Or do we? A recent study out of Europe suggests that salt intake has zero correlation to higher or lower blood pressure. The study followed...
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Is Test-Tube Beef Better Than the Real Thing?
For some time now, I’ve been reading reports of a Netherlands research team that’s been working on growing beef in a laboratory. The researchers take stem cells from cattle, then allow them to multiply...
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My Future Dog’s Diet
My wife has wanted for some time to get a dog. I don’t want one. So far I’ve “won” this battle, largely because we live in a small apartment in a big city and, while having a dog here is possible,...
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More Bad News for Diet Soda?
Diet soda’s been linked in recent studies to cancer, heart disease and obesity. Though the first of these three ailments has long been linked to artificial sweeteners, the second two offer a bigger...
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