This article also appeared in this week’s @Health_Affairs issue on climate and health. It’s worth noting what companies underwrite the dietary standard being advanced here, as listed here:…
This is an update of work previously done analyzing US health care’s contribution to carbon emissions (see: Just Read: Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System –…
Thanks to study lead author David Ludwig, MD, PhD, (@DavidLudwigMD) for letting me know about his latest publication, and noting, his helpful addition to my graphic above: Thx.…
This is an example of healthy user/healthy adherer effect. This effect is very difficult to adjust for, and its impact pervades the nutrition epidemiological literature. In this study…
This is a repeat of many other analyses of this topic. See: Just Read: Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory…
Diabetes Canada (@DiabetesCanada) has now joined the American Diabetes Association (with European Association for the Study of Diabetes), Diabetes Australia, and Diabetes UK in having a position /…
There has never been an RCT of a whole-food plant-based (vegan) diet vs a whole-food animal-based diet. We’ll have to continue waiting for that study. In the meantime……
Thanks to the team at @EdXOnline @HarvardOnline and instructors @MiscSusan @RespResource for making this course available to us. It brought me back to one of the reasons I…
This paper, widely shared in the media, is where the idea that social (physical) distancing may have to extend into 2022 has come from. The analysis, produced by…
This is an interesting paper covering the topic of contact tracing and isolation, and the case for doing this with mobile technology (a very persuasive one). Rather than…
I thought about making this post accessible to a lay audience, however, in the interest of expediency, I’ll just speak in scientific language. Feel free to ask questions…
This is the type of literature that will be of great interest in the interim period, and it’s good news :). Markers of muscle size and strength can…
If you would have told me that at some point in my life I would spend a month eating only meat and no plant products I wouldn’t have…
This pilot study is good news for “mainstream” (20th Century) medicine utilizing the current Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), to prevent diabetes, which is currently a covererd service “…by…
We may never know if plant based diets are healthy or not based on the physicians and scientist advocates’ numerous conflicts of interest and behavior. The difference is…
What we need isn’t another set of one-size-fits-all guidelines, a pyramid or plate or dodecahedron illustrating oversimplified rules for a theoretical public. We don’t need more advice based…
Language that shames and judges may (contribute) to diabetes distress, and ultimately slow progress in diabetes outcomes I was prompted to read these two pieces while reviewing the…
This is a solid overview of ketogenic diets, now being used for a variety of metabolic and other health issues, by David Ludwig, MD, PhD (@DavidLudwigMD), an accomplished…
This study has been widely shared already, with a significant degree of alarm. Among adolescents, the prevalence of prediabetes was 18.0% (95% CI, 16.0%-20.1%) and among young adults…
The only reason I picked up on the change was because the figure in the original publication (reference below) had such a striking problem when it was published.…
This is an opinion piece connected to a very interesting study (Trends in Dietary Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat Intake and Diet Quality Among US Adults, 1999-2016 – see…
This data isn’t new, and it’s not enjoyed by anyone I’ve seen write about it, including plant-based or plant-free eating advocates. It paints an unseemly picture of the…
This paper is a review of the dietary habits of Americans from 1999 – 2016, a follow-up from a previous analysis, using the NHANES database. As the chart…
The most important part of this week’s published nutritional guideline recommendations – personal preferences and values are respected. …other guidelines have paid little or no attention to the…
I was highly interested in reading this paper because I have informally worked to understand the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the pharmaceutical industry through their own web…
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Why? It covers a topic I know…
On Eating Meat: The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it My generation of physicians trained in an era when our profession lacked curiosity about…
This is a very well written piece in the journal Religions (Religions_MDPI) covering the title of the piece. Even if you live in the future and know where…
This paper, by Cucuzzella et. al (of all the authors Adele Hite, PhD RD is on Twitter – @ahhite) is a nice review of what’s known about standards…
Last evening was the annual Washington, DC Capital TransPride (@DCTransPride365) rewind, held a few months out from the TransPride celebration as a review and planning for next year.…