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Junkfood Science
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Critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health and healthcare that mainstream media misses. Debunks popular myths, explains science and exposes fraud that affects your health. Plus some fun food for thought. For readers not afraid to question and think critically to get to the truth.
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Note to My Readers

Dear Readers,Thank you, again, for your letters of support. As you know, I continue to passionately believe everyone deserves sound information about their bodies and health, food and the world we li...

29 Jan 12

Appearances and Individuality

The best quotes of the week: “You can’t trust your eyes. You never could.” — Russ White “When you live in a world heavily focused on the way things look, it’s increasingly important to focus on what ...

25 Dez 09

Predicting heart attacks — the government study the media ignored

Most heart disease occurs in healthy people without traditional risk factors and who aren’t considered to be at risk. That has led healthy people without symptoms to feel vulnerable to this ‘silent k...

16 Okt 09

Penalties for bad behavior

Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee approved a healthcare reform amendment that would penalize employees who are not following “healthy lifestyles” and participating in wellness programs. Employe...

04 Okt 09

Your boss will weigh you now

According to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s Annual Report, claims in 2008 reached $10.7 Billion — half the entire budget for the state of North Carolina. Claims increased nearly three tim...

27 Sep 09

Who will speak out for you?

Two New Mexico nurses have paid a heavy price for following their consciences and the basic tenet of the nurse’s Code of Ethics — the ethical duty to protect and advocate for the rights, health and s...

19 Sep 09

How some food can make us sick

Do you have friends who say that they feel physically sick and develop headaches, heart palpitations, nausea and dizziness when they eat sugar or anything with high fructose corn syrup? Do you know o...

14 Sep 09

The man who fed the world

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. — Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009) One man is credited with saving more lives than any other person in world history. Born to...

13 Sep 09

912 — A day that will go down in American history

According to the Examiner in Baltimore, mainstream media won’t report the story, accurately. In a history making event remniscent of other marches, the American people — fat and thin, old and young, ...

13 Sep 09

A Day to Remember — September 11, 2001

America Attacked 911 Dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives, those brave people who gave their lives, and the heroes who responded to the emergency 11 September 2001. We will n...

11 Sep 09

Reality check — How have scary predictions about swine flu held up to reality?

The flu season is winding down in Australia, where their winter is nearing end. How did the expert claims, speculations and predictions of the deadly pandemic hold up to the facts? Three months ago, ...

10 Sep 09

Look before we LEAP again

Clinical guidelines are used to measure the quality of care provided by physicians and are purportedly evidence-based. National childhood overweight and obesity policies in the United States, United ...

08 Sep 09

A Labor Day health story

The health story for this Labor Day is the health of our labor force. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest employment figures on Friday. The unemployment rate...

07 Sep 09

Common sense about swine flu

The flu season has barely begun and yet the panic is already in full swing with 186,933 media stories about H1N1 and 47,159 news stories about the swine flu currently at Google News.* Do you know wha...

06 Sep 09

Blame, compassion and science

On August 14th, mainstream media was reporting that osteoporosis-linked fractures have dramatically increased over the past decade. Among 723 news stories, not one questioned the study behind the new...

04 Sep 09

How does healthcare reform fit with your values and ethics?

The healthcare reform debate has become so discordant, it’s even been said to be a sign of a larger, irreconcilable ideological abyss growing in our country. In this environment, it can be hard to so...

31 Aug 09

Online social media — marketing in disguise

Millions of Americans have received emails and read blogs and commentary on social media sites and never realized that what they were reading was carefully crafted marketing messages from the governm...

23 Aug 09

The sky is not falling … again

Once again, the biggest health story of the year has found that we are healthier and living longer than in the history of our country. The latest vital statistics data from the CDC National Center fo...

20 Aug 09

Our shared humanity

“Diversity” and “acceptance” have become politically correct ideas and appear in countless employee policy manuals and mission statements of nonprofit groups. As well-intentioned as they may be, they...

20 Aug 09

The scientific process in action — Where is the evidence for governmental efficiency?

Scientific literacy isn’t the stuff found in a science textbook. That’s science literacy — and, while understanding the principles of science is important too, it’s not as important as knowing how to...

17 Aug 09

The myth of unhealthy belly fat

Before continuing with the obesity paradox series, one of the most important null studies of the year deserves mention… especially since the media universally ignored it. As the body mass index (BMI)...

13 Aug 09

Medical Grand Rounds 5.47

Dr. Rich hosts this week’s issue of Medical Grand Rounds. The topic is cost containment in healthcare reform. The commentary was true to his reputation for sharp, stinging humor. Good sarcasm is hard...

12 Aug 09

Equitable isn’t always ethical or compassionate

If more medical professionals shared with the public what it’s like to care for patients covered by managed care plans, the reason most doctors find it incompatible with medical ethics would be more ...

08 Aug 09

What are they going to do… make us?

There is nothing to fear.It’s not like the government will install 24-hour surveillance cameras into our homes to make sure we’re behaving correctly, that parents are feeding their children properly ...

04 Aug 09

No American can ever say they didn’t know…

An ongoing debate has been unfolding among the public and medical professionals about whether the healthcare reform bill really requires mandatory counseling for every senior that will steer them to ...

03 Aug 09

Weight of the Nation — “We have a plan”

If anti-obesity news coverage has seemed to get a shot in the arm the past few days, you might want to know why. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activ...

31 Jul 09

Prioritized lives

We can never be allowed to hear good news about our health. The government won’t allow it. “Such is the strength of cultural miserabilism today that even the most smile-inducing good news stories can...

27 Jul 09

He who controls the medical profession, controls life

As hard as some are trying to make healthcare reform to be about political sides, it is really about human lives. Sadly, because the general public largely doesn’t understand what healthcare reform i...

26 Jul 09

From the cognitive disconnect pages

Our thoughts go out to our friends across the pond today and to parents with sick children there. The King's Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies released a new analysis of National Health Servi...

22 Jul 09

Today’s changing medical ethics — where it’s taking us

There’s no such thing as a kindler, gentler capitation. — Pamela K. Mulligan, Ph.D., Canadian Family Physician, 2002 Last week, the Massachusetts’ state commission proposed a radical restructuring of...

19 Jul 09

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