December 17, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Myths & Truths | 50 comments
A friend of mine was observing me making my breakfast the other day. She's been hip to the dangers of low-fat diets and the benefits of saturated fat for some time now, but even so she was pretty surprised with just how much fat I was plowing into my smoothie. We thought it might be fun to actually measure the amount and do a full nutritional analysis on my breakfast.Here's the recipe:1.5 ...
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October 15, 2009 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 2 comments
I want to get some Juno-inspired T-shirts printed up for researchers that say "What other kind of shenanigans can I get into?" Seriously. I cannot believe the stuff that gets published in medical journals these days. I don't know which is the scarier possibility: that the researchers are really so poorly trained that they consistently violate the most basic principles of medical research (that you probably learned in your 8th grade science class), ...
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