Well it’s that time again, so Happy New Year! January is a great time for trying new things to improve our lives and make them a bit better than they were the year before. A number of people in the blogosphere have offered some great dietary ideas for January. Stephan Guyenet recently passed on Matt …
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Reductionism and Holism Go Hand in Hand
In a new blog over at WestonAPrice.Org, I argue that reductionism and holism are not at conflict with each other unless they are used improperly, and that for science and any other type of problem-solving we must use both of them together. I also provide a critical analysis of a recent study that used a …
More Attacks on Vitamin A
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: More Attacks on Vitamin A And an addendum: Further Questions on Vitamin A
Saturated Fat Is Not Associated With CVD, Evidence of Publication Bias
A recent meta-analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart …