Category Archives: nutrition in the news

The (missing) role of genetics and genomics in nutrition research

By preston | Published: November 3, 2010
I’m a little late to discovering his blog and work but Keith Grimaldi at Eurogene has some excellent thoughts in this post about why most human nutrition research is pretty weak, inconclusive, and misses the boat much of the time.   This line of thinking really struck a chord with me because ever since I’ve transitioned [...]
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What Happened to Dose and Context?

By preston | Published: October 27, 2010
Fat is evil. Carbs are evil. Fructose is evil. Gluten is evil. Meat is unhealthy. Vegetarians are unhealthy. You have to eat ‘clean’ to be healthy. Absolute statements like this fill the nutrition and health headlines but are always off the mark. These and other extreme positions fail because they do not allow for the [...]
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Why Dean Ornish is Wrong

By preston | Published: September 11, 2010
Hot Air in the Huffington Post In a much-publicized brouhaha this week, Dr. Dean Ornish wrote an article in the Huffington Post summing up his take on a recent observational study comparing animal and plant-based diets.  The cohort study, which was published last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, studied long-term mortality rates among [...]
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