Food & Nutrition

Our friend, the telomere

I wrote an article several months ago about a controversial study suggesting that red meat wasn’t all that bad. You can find it here.

Bone broth is promoted as a “super-soup”, rich in collagen and minerals. But in reality, this eye-watering expensive broth is a poor source of nutrition and can’t boost your skin or help your joints as claimed.

Some scares never go away no matter whether there is a remotely plausible basis for the scare (maybe asbestos in talc) or pure insanity (vaccines causing autism).

Of course, anyone that has used these measures will tell you that at some point, the weight doesn’t continue to be lost, we plateau, and our bodies adjust to their new circumstances.

How's this for irony? The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is headed by a medical doctor, yet their latest fundraising letter is full of junk science, bogus health claims, and medical misinformation.

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

By Rob Shewfelt The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World as reviewed by Robert L. Shewfelt

As of May last year, all American restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets have been legally obliged to provide calorie counts on their menus in a bid to help people make less fattening choices. So how's that going then?

Bashing sugar is all the rage in nutrition.