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The NaCl Debacle Part 1: Salt makes you fat?
Don’t look now, but I think the Institute of Medicine’s new report on sodium just bitch-slapped the USDA/HHS 2010 Dietary Guidelines. In case you have a life outside of the nutritional recommendation...
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The NaCl Debacle Part 2: We don’t need no stinkin’ science!
Sodium-Slashing Superheroes Low-Sodium Larry and his bodacious side-kick Linda “The Less Salt the Better” Van Horn team up to protect Americans from the evils lurking in a teaspoon of salt!(Drawings...
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans: We don’t need no stinkin’ science
I know, I know. I never post. I never call. I don’t bring you flowers. It’s a wonder we’re still together. I have the usual list of excuses: 1) GRADUATE SCHOOL But before I disappear off the face of...
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Changing the Dietary Guidelines
If you have been following any of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s meetings (who does that anyway? I mean, unless you are a total geek like I am), then you might have noticed that the next...
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I went to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Report oral comments session and all I...
I had the pleasure of sharing the condensed version of my summary of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report with the folks in Washington earlier this week. If your idea of fun is...
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The slick “new” Dietary Guidelines
Because never changing the recommendations means never having to say you’re sorry for 35 years of crappy advice, the 2015 (really 2016, but who’s counting?) Dietary Guidelines repeat the same old-same...
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Alternative Fa(c)ts
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while now, but as always: grad school. However, today in my inbox appeared a call to sign a petition sponsored by the Nutrition Coalition to have federal...
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