Will Sugar In My Coffee Make Me Fat? No
Does sugar make you fat? It will if you combine it with a lot of fat. Will fat make you fat?
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Soylent: Another Meal Replacement
Soylent – the drink that promises you will never eat again. There are some legitimate questions about this drink and it is nothing more than a gimmick.
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Biotruths: What We Are Meant to Eat
In the future someone will say, “Eat like they did in the 21st century, they lived long and had little disease.” They will argue over McDonald’s. A biotruth is a logical fallacy – in this case applying it to food, about how we are “meant” to eat.
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Heroin vs. Over Eating: Which is Harder to Kick?
There is a high level of weight regain after diets. Dieting is a multi-billion dollar industry that peddles more hope than weight loss. Is the 95% return of lost weight that was reported half a century ago still the same in light lifestyle modifications with modern drugs, exercise, psychological support, and understanding of the microbiome and evolutionary biology?
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The Bad Fat isn’t Bad and the Good Fat isn’t Good
President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.
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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul
Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.
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Bacon Cures Cancer
They want you to think that vegetables turn off cancer genes – that if you get cancer you are not vegan enough. Here is the story of a lifelong vegetarian/vegan who will tell you that vegetables didn’t turned off the most deadly cancer progression of all. Someone who is the longest survivor of pancreatic cancer- and the one thing that changed — bacon
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Vegan Activism
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine seems to play a bit loose with the facts about nutrition. This organization is less about research and evidenced based medicine, and far more about an agenda or advocacy.
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Do Vegans Live Longer?
Can the diet you eat make you live longer? Do vegans live longer? Probably no- food can kill you faster, but it is more a question of balance than of anything else.
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