Egg yolk consumption, carotid plaque & bad science
“Egg yolks linked to heart disease” screamed the headlines on Monday 6th August 2012. The newspaper article came from a journal article called “Egg yolk consumption and carotid plaque“. I really have got better things to do than to continually dissect articles from so called scientists, but, when the item under attack is the super [...]
Read more »Avocado diet ‘triples chance of success’ for couples undergoing IVF
So announced the media headline on 4th July. The study was presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Istanbul. It was carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health and was funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Study leader Professor Jorge Chavarro said: “The best kinds of food [...]
Read more »We die instantly without cholesterol so why do we try to stop the body making it?
On May 8th 2012, we woke up to the headline:”Shot in the arm for fight against heart attacks: The fortnightly jab that could unclog your arteries.” The article opens by saying “A fortnightly jab that slashes levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol could dramatically reduce the death toll from heart attacks and strokes. The injection has been [...]
Read more »Red meat & mortality & the usual bad science – Part 2
I blogged on March 12 2012 about this press release about an article in the Articles of Internal Medicine published on the same day. The article now appears to be unavailable on free view. On March 20, I emailed the author listed for personal correspondence (frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu) with the following query: Dear Dr Hu Please can [...]
Read more »Red meat & mortality & the usual bad science
The media lit up on the evening of Monday March 12th as a press release was issued about an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine published that day. The BBC were among the first to pick up the story and the story was featured extensively on BBC Breakfast TV and Radio 4 on Tuesday [...]
Read more »Men’s Health and Eat this, Not that – bad science at its worst!
“Swap cheddar for edam and Snickers for Flakes and you could lose two stone in a year” screamed the Daily Mail article headline on 11 January 2012. The claim comes from a study “by the team behind Men’s Health magazine”. As you will be able to see from the link, the article lists 21 items [...]
Read more »“Divorce rate for over-60s surges”
So screamed the Daily Mail headline on 19 November 2011. “Britain is seeing a boom in ‘silver separations’”, read the first line. I wonder if they do with other headlines what they do with drug and disease headlines? The article soon gave some numbers – 11,500 over-60s were granted a divorce in 2009. It takes [...]
Read more »Eggs & Prostate Cancer
Yet another story came out over the past few days trying to demonise a real food. The Daily Mail ran the story “Eating just THREE eggs a week ‘increases chance of men getting prostate cancer’” I have the following points to make: 1) Association vs causation: This study makes the usual and unforgiveable mistake of [...]
Read more »Make Friends With Fats
Here is the full presentation that I did at The Abergavenny Food Festival on Saturday, 17th September. And you can download the presentation slides here
Read more »Red meat & diabetes?
There is an article widely reported in the media today (11 August 2011). The original research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. You can see the abstract for free and the article then costs $12. I bought the article, so that I can comment on the full picture and not the abstract [...]
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