When nutritional epidemiologists conclude (as they always do) that some item of our diet or lifestyle associates with chronic disease, it’s inevitably news. Not so when methodologists point out potential, if not very disturbing problems with the epidemiology itself. This research has enormous influence on our conceptions of a healthy diet and yet the media…
SUBSTACK 6: DO WE CARE WHY MICE GET FAT?
by GT When Nina Teicholz and I were discussing working together on a Substack newsletter, I suggested a name for it that I’d always joked I’d someday use: “Let’s Pretend This Is Science….” Let’s just say, wiser heads prevailed. Still, that’s the phrase that comes to mind when I write about some of the research in…
Substack 5: Less Meat, More Plants: A rules of evidence controversy (part 1)
That a plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat is the nutritional equivalent of common sense. We’ve been told it’s the one thing on which nutritionists can always agree. Journalists treat it as dogma. But where’s the evidence? When a group of researchers decided to apply the same methodology to nutrition that is accepted…