Food & Nutrition

Policymakers love nudges – predictably altering people’s behavior without forbidding choices or changing economic incentives.

“Small glass of juice or soda a day can increase cancer risk” screamed a recent CNN headline… “Just ONE drink of fruit juice or sugary tea a day can dramatically increase the risk of cancer, major study suggests,” was DailyMail.com’s take.

Supplements, currently a $30 billion industry, are the best example of “it couldn’t hurt.” A meta-analysis of meta-analyses finds, once again, that supplements have no impact on the great killer, cardiovascular disease.

“An extra burger meal a day eats the brain away," is the sort of arresting headline you’d expect from a tabloid, but it actually comes directly from a recent

Who would think that meat could be such a divisive issue?

Recently I was talking with my brother-in-law, a fit and healthy type 1 diabetic, and he was bemoaning the fact that it was getting harder to find sufficiently sugary drinks to have on standby in case of a hypo.

Late in the evening when I look for that special snack, I console myself by believing that any food eaten while standing magically contains no calories. A recent study suggests that I am sorta, may be correct, but not entirely.

When I first heard about “Bulletproof coffee” it was from the perspective of enjoying an eye roll moment at the daftness of some LA diet trends.

By James McIntosh

The multiplicity of diets and dietary recommendations is all we need to know about the status of our current nutritional beliefs.