nutrition

I generally take a calcium/Vitamin D (400mg calcium, 500IU VitaminD) pill before I eat breakfast and dinner, especially if it's going to be protein-heavy. Wanna avoid my body leaching calcium out of my bones, as well as any kidney stones, etc. My friend noticed me doing this while having a...

Vegetarians and vegans should plan their diets carefully to avoid negative consequences:

You guys know about Jordan Peterson, right? For anyone who hasn't heard of him, he's a Canadian psychologist and a professor. He's also a bit of a "self-help guru" if I can use that term. He recently wrote a best-selling book called 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and he has a popular...

I have a question for those with a background in medicine and/or nutrition.... A friend of mine is trying to loose weight. They have a relative that is a Nutritionist or dietitian (not sure which one, but it was something they had to train for, although I'm not sure what sort of accreditation...

Sorry, I heard about this on a podcast and I'm not sure where the original study is but apparently it was a meta-analysis. But what it found was that drinking milk was actually associated with lower, not higher rates of obesity in children, for example. None of the studies found it associated...

I can eat a tomato with a sprinkling of salt and it tastes good. But if I buy canned tomato juice, one small glass is going to give me something like 30 percent of the day's sodium requirement. And it doesn't even taste salty. If I get the lower sodium kind - it tastes like it needs salt. I'm...

I have recently encountered the claim that if you have a diet with rabbit as your only real protein source you will eventually die of starvation. Wikipedia says it isn't really about rabbit but about lean meat in general and that there really hasn't been much study into rabbit in particular...

I run, walk, and work out with dumbbells. I do situps, pushups, crunches, etc. I have little body fat, but of course what I have gets distributed evenly to my belly these days. It might be a losing battle but I will win or die trying. My biggest problem is sensible nutrition; I don't eat well...

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-red-meat-20120313,0,565423.story This is very interesting and telling to me. Not just as a vegetarian. Hell, I'm an alcoholic who loves cheese, so I can't be holier-than-thou. I just find this interesting. I'm usually pretty skeptical about nutrition science...

I came across this article today which states that the Harvard School of Public Health has declared that dairy is not part of a healthy diet. Intrigued, I went to Harvard's site and the article appears to be giving an accurate assessment. I have heard that dairy isn't healthy for you in...

I just finished watching Stephen Colbert interviewing Michael Pollan about his new book. Aside from advocating taxing pop, this line stuck out at me. It was alone the lines of, "we've listened to scientists too much about food." I'm sure the interview will be up on the website within the...

Last night I got around to watching the film Fat Head which is a tongue-in-cheek response to the Morgan Spurlock documentary Super Size Me. For those who don't remember: in "Super Size Me" Spurlock ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, gained weight, experienced other health issues, blames fast...

The use of Weston Price's old research by anti root canal, paleo diet, and anti fluoride advocates and the criticism of such for the last 20 years makes me worry. About everything being talked is dependent on the use of just two works by the man: Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic (1923) and...

"It's good for you" seems to be a quite acceptable thing to say....except it's a sweeping statement that therefore cannot be true (in most cases). "A glass of red wine is good for you." I reply no, it's quite terrible for me and others who have a few of the health problems it is actually bad...

Surly Amy over on Skepchicks skewers the naturalistic fallacy with regards to homogenized milk. http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/09/ask-surly-amy-homogenization-how-does-that-work/ Yet there's one bit that I'm having a little difficulty digesting. "and homogenized milk is slightly more...

There may be another thread in this subforum on this topic; but I cannot find it. There is an excellent article http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6501 that compares high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to a large number of "natural" sweeteners. Most such articles only point-out that HFCS is...

Hi all, I don't post much in the science forum, but I was curious about what I think is a piece of pseudo-science. I had a conversation with someone today, and they assured me that it has been "scientifically proven" that girls mature faster today, because of growth hormones in beef, chicken...

Mark Morford takes the "idiotic, obese, undereducated masses" to task for their contemptible fondness of awful, evil, corporate fast food. The KFC Double Down: One Sandwich To Kill You All . Mark, please don't pull your punches. Tell us what you really think of middle America.

I found the claim in another JREF thread. Is it true?

Hi! There's been quite a lot of talk regarding diet here lately, especially vegetarian vs. omnivorous. Thought this should be brought up. From The American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition: Effect of vegetarian diets on bone mineral density: a Bayesian meta-analysis Interesting. Comments?

So, I have mentioned before that there is a radio program with a morning show here in Tucson that doesn't even ever think twice about putting woo on the show. Alison DuBois (the psychic medium or whatever she is) is a regular guest, as well as other people with dubious claims at the very...

The Food and Drug Administration has warned General Mills regarding the claims made on the Cheerios box. The complaint wasn't about the general claims of healthfulness that the cereal box makes, but instead about specific medical claims (that Cheerios has been clinically proven to lower...

Anyone know anything about Sally Fallon and/or the Weston A. Price Foundation? Fallon wrote a popular book called Nourishing Traditions, and is affiliated with the WAPF. Some of what they say about diet and health sound reasonable to me--other stuff I'm not so sure about. But I'm no nutrition...

"The complete guide to Homeopathic and Nutrintional Pregnancy and Childbirth" I was checking out a site for some freelance work and came across this: http://www.ifreelance.com/project/detail.aspx?projectid=31713 It's bad enough that people waste their money and ruin their own health with...

I've been invited to the official opening of Juice Plus+ Finland. It starts today in about 6 hours. They are promoting different pills and oils that should be good for our health. I got a bit suspicious when I first met the main sailsperson of the Finnish division of Juice Plus+. She was...

The cafe at the place where I work has put out leaflets advertising soups with a number of claims: "These delicious soups are full of immune-boosting nutrients" "You need to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day to reinforce your defences" "This fresh tomato soup is...

Let's keep an eye on this one.

Or so those pesky Danes say. It appears that high doses of the "antioxidant" vitamins A, E, and beta-carotene may shorten life span, and contribute to the diseases that "nutritionists" claim they can prevent, namely cancer and heart disease. High dose vitamin C and selenium had no detrimental...

Is anyone read Good Calories, Bad Calories? I'm about a quarter of the way through, it's an eye opening book. Taubes is done an amazing job of documenting the weak, at best, science behind a lot of our dietary guidelines. It looks like Atkins was a least partially right. Amazon link...

Hi everyone, first post here! I noticed this seems like the website where intelligent if conservative people like to get together and discuss what ideas are worthwhile or not. I am an intelligent person, and love to research ideas and gain knowledge. It has recently come to my attention...