Questioning Claims, Part I: Some Personal History
I think I was 22 or 23, when my husband brought home a used book that changed my life. The book was “Science: Good, Bad and Bogus” by Martin Gardner. A few people might recognize the name…he wrote the well-known “Mathematical Games” column that ran in Scientific American for 25 years. Gardner wrote a lot more than that, however: he was also a prolific science writer who specialized in exposing...
Ten Things The Junk Food Manufacturers Don’t Want You To Know
David Ludwig and Marion Nestle are the authors of a recently published commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In it, they question whether the junk food industry is really sincere in its efforts to “combat obesity.” After all, the industry’s shareholders celebrate when stock prices rise (i.e., people consume more of their products) and not the other way around. In a recent interview, David and...
Sneaky, Rotten, Underhanded, Dirty Tricks Vol II.
A little while ago, I started a series on some of the dirty rotten tricks I’ve seen perpetrated by retailers on a largely unsuspecting and vulnerable audience (if things continue to proceed in the same manner, I suspect this will be a long, and on-going series). Anyhow, one other MAJOR pet peeve of mine is retailers who name their products as close as legally possible to any number of major prescription weight loss drugs, and...
Dishonest Or Incompetent? Your Choice…
For some reason I decided to go check out some of UltimateFatBurner.com’s competitors today; you know – the thinly disguised product promotion sites masquerading as unbiased “review” sites. Not really sure why I decided to do this; some perverse desire to raise my blood pressure, I guess. Anyhow, if you’re subscribed to UltimateFatBurner.com’s newsfeed you’ll be aware that many of the products...
Newsweek Article: A Drink’s Purple Reign
It’s all about Mona Vie – a multi-level marketing product that’s really just expensive fruit juice. I don’t doubt that it’s nutritious or contains some useful antioxidants, but natural products almost invariably need to be taken in either a) highly concentrated form or b) in volume for the user to obtain significant amounts of the active compounds. Drinking a glass of orange juice, for example, will...
Why Am I Not Impressed…
…by this press release? A just-released review article in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension concludes that an increase in potassium coupled with a decrease in sodium may be the most important dietary choice, after weight loss, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The problem is, most Americans consume about half the recommended daily amount of potassium and double the recommended amount of sodium, putting them at...
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