A Scary Government Report Implies That Moderate Drinking Is Manifestly Reckless
The focus on the health risks of alcohol consumption gives short shrift to the reasons people like to drink.
The focus on the health risks of alcohol consumption gives short shrift to the reasons people like to drink.
The evidence is vast but open to interpretation because observational studies are inherently ambiguous.
Stealth alcohol prohibition in the guise of an anti-cancer campaign.
His priorities may not be the drastic reforms that are actually needed.
Washington bureaucrats are rewriting the rules on drinking, and a hidden panel of unelected officials could be paving the way for Prohibition 2.0.
George Koob says the U.S. could follow Canada's lead and recommend no more than two alcoholic drinks per week.
The federal government continues to be very bad at telling people what and how to eat.
Most Americans are not consuming excessive amounts of sodium.
Refusing to recommend policy based on bad science isn't unscientific.
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Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.
Implausible estimates of benefits or risks associated with diet reflect almost exclusively the magnitude of nutrition researchers' cumulative biases.
Q&A with journalist Nina Teicholz
Bad Food Bible author Aaron Carroll on flawed government nutrition guidelines, diet-science nihilism, and why you shouldn't give in to restrictive food moralism.
Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma
Exploring the absurdities of modern nutritional epidemiology.
USDA's diet guidelines are a mess because the information it uses is suspect.
Two recent examples illustrate deep and broad problems.
Review of saturated fat studies "do not provide support for the traditional diet heart hypothesis."
Follow the new guidelines at your own peril.
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