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Bing Crosby Science: Ultraprocessed Food edition.
What do you do when the latest clinical trial contradicts the core assumption of UPF science? How about accentuate the positive and eliminate the…
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Can Obesity Be Predicted? Does Inactivity Cause It? And What About Corn Syrup?
The latest nutrition news tells us more about the state of the science (and the reporting) than it does what we need to know.
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Gary Taubes
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The Curious Lessons of Calorie Restriction
What can we learn about aging well from the "potential downsides" of living hungry?
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Gary Taubes
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Of Course Overeating Makes Us Fat... Except When It Doesn't?
What a pair of experiments--one a thought experiment, one a century old--tell us about the illogic of overeating.
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Gary Taubes
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Tales from the History of Carnivore Diets
Nutrition dogma habitually ignores the past. Paying attention, after all, can be terribly inconvenient.
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Gary Taubes
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Are Ultra-Processed Foods the Problem?
With all the interest in the dangers and addictive nature of ultra-processed foods, can we start, please, with the right questions and the right…
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Gary Taubes
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NIH Has A Nutrition Problem (Part 2 )
If you want to demonstrate that a low-fat diet is better than a ketogenic diet (or that ultra-processed food makes us overeat), these critical design…
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Gary Taubes
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Uncertainty Principles
Uncertainty Principles
When what we don’t know is more important than what we do. Wrestling with conflict and controversy in science, medicine, health and nutrition.

Uncertainty Principles

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