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I’ve been hearing through the grapevine about financial problems with Atkins Nutritionals for months. I guess the rumors were true. I think the problem for Atkins and all the other purveyors of what is basically low-carb snack food is that the prices of their products were too high and the taste was not all that…

From Today’s New York Times. I think pork barreling is the most disgusting part of our political system. And both sides do it shamelessly. This article shows only the tip of the pork barrel iceberg as it describes how Senators and Representatives from both sides of the aisle not only bring home the bacon but…

The lipid hypothesis of heart disease is rapidly being supplanted by the inflammatory hypothesis, which, for my money, is much more on the mark. The researchers who have spent their careers doing cholesterol research are not going down without a fight, however. Whereas most of the speakers at medical conferences always used to show graphs…

An eye-opening article on Alcoholics Anonymous in the London Review of Books by someone who is an alcoholic and does attend meetings. You can get a taste of the writing style by this excerpt on the alcoholic’s contempt for doctors: The belief that they are victims of an illness allows recovering alcoholics to forgive themselves…

There is hope for the future of civilization. Whowouldathunkit?

I found several human studies published in various journals that appear to confirm the study from Brain, Behavior and Immunity (BBI) discussed previously. The first, published in Physiology & Behavior in 1999, is a study detailing the self-reported effects of stress on eating behavior. The researchers had the subjects (a group of 212 undergraduate students—63…

Talk about a bunch of worthless research. Just look at the ink this turkey has gotten. University College London must have a lot of spare cash on its hands to throw away on research like this when there are many really important questions that need research money to answer. Call me a curmudgeon, but really……

You might find it strange to find me writing about an animal study immediately after pointing out that animal studies should be taken with a grain of salt. The study under consideration in this post, however, is a little different in that all the various components of this animal study have been shown to hold…

You may have seen the reports from a number of sources detailing how scientists have discovered why a diet rich in saturated fats is harmful or that scientists have figured out the “science” of saturated fats. Don’t worry about the harmful part unless you happen to be a C57BL/6 mouse or even an apoE-/- mouse….