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Follow Friday: How to win an argument with a nutritionist
I don’t necessarily agree with all of the arguments made in this article (although I do agree with most). And I certainly don’t agree with the premise that many dietitians aren’t “basing their...
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Do you need a testosterone boost?
A friend recently sent me a link to this article Why Testosterone Is Your Friend. My first question was: is testosterone deficiency a common problem. This study puts the prevalence at roughly 10% in...
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Skeptic or jerk? What’s the difference?
Eternal Damnation by Stephen L. Cloud used under a Creative Commons Licence. Last week I tweeted the question “When did skeptic become synonymous with a**hole?” (except without the asterisks because...
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Eating to change your eye colour
I recently came across a post by David Wolfe (yeah, that guy) about the ability of a raw food diet to change your eye colour. Apparently this is a thing ever since some raw food guru nutritionista...
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Science is not my religion
After I wrote about the study that supposedly showed that consumption of vegetables and fruit has no bearing on cancer development someone commented on facebook that I was undermining “real science”...
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Why industry shouldn’t have special input into the food guide
With the recent public consultation on the new Canadian “food guide” just coming to an end I’ve been noticing a lot of push-back from industry. There was a letter from a MP voicing concern about the...
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Are dietitians getting too sexy?
A few years ago I wrote a blog post that really hit a nerve with other dietitians. It was about how dietitians just aren’t sexy. This was in the sense that we don’t hop on trends (unlike other...
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Should we allow advertisers to have unlimited access to children?
As in many countries, including Canada, there is currently a push in the UK for a ban on “junk food” advertising to children. Naturally, there’s push-back but surprisingly not (just) from the food...
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