Food & Nutrition

What do you say when a pretty wacky idea is ostensibly promoted by a well-respected scientist? Well, you (politely) have to say that the idea is rather wacky.

It's that time of the year when the Environmental Working Group produces its "Dirty Dozen List" - foods they believe you should fear the most.

Sure, we all know that it's important to be physically active to help achieve and maintain a healthy body weight and perhaps diminish the risk of heart disease, some cancers and overall mortality. But how much is enough?

Here we go again: From Yahoo: Bacon, soda & too few nuts tied to big portion of US deaths

In a recent documentary, religion scholar Reza Aslan ate a small piece of huma

They're "hooking" up. They've got more access to safe-sex and birth-control information – at their fingertips via their smartphone – than any generation in human history.

Here are the headlines: From UPI: Study links soy consumption to breast cancer survival.

ACSH followers are clear about the problems associated with fake science — from the promotion of supposed obesity "cures" by Dr. Oz to the nonsense of hydrogen-infused water, we've covered a myriad of pseudoscience.

http://cdn.nutrition.org/content/early/2017/02/08/cdn.117.000422

Soda taxes are many things. Obnoxious. Unscientific. An example of government overreach. The one thing they aren't is racist, yet precisely that case was made by Seattle Times reporter Gene Balk1.