As a clinician, my primary goal is to help my patients. While I am fascinated by scientific theories, I am far more interested in whether those theories can be applied to practical solutions for the patients that I work with.
I feel grateful for this perspective, because I believe it helps me to keep an open mind and not get too attached to one theory or another. My patients are constantly teaching me that no ...
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I know this was all over the blogosphere yesterday but I think it's important enough for a repost.
One thing I can count on every time I write an article extolling the health benefits of animal products is someone sending me an email or posting a comment like this:
I think you're absolutely wrong. You should read: The China Study, by Dr. T. Collin Campbell.
Sorry to be contrary, but T. Colin Campbell’s “The China ...
You might have seen an article in your newspaper or online touting a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that "strongly" linked red meat consumption with cancer and an increased risk of death. Heck, how could you miss it? Google shows 547 new articles about the study, and it was mentioned in just about every major newspaper in the U.S.
(That's not an accident, by the way. It's an intentional attack ...
If you read the papers or watch the news you've probably heard about the recently published JUPITER study, advertised with bold headlines such as "Cholesterol drug causes risk of heart attack to plummet" and "Cholesterol-fighting drug shows wider benefit". If you've been following this blog (and perhaps even if you haven't), you are by now aware that such claims cannot be taken at face value.
You might suspect, for example, that the study was sponsored by ...
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