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If Japan eats so many carbs, why are the Japanese so lean?As someone with three half-Japanese children, who speaks Japanese reasonably well, and who was strongly influenced in thinking about

Just because insulin resistance is associated with heart disease, and just because keto reduces one marker of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (but makes other markers worse), does not mean that keto

Many believe lifestyle change is a “privilege” enabled by high incomeYet:Weight loss works similarly across income in RCTsObesity is evenly distributed by incomePeople with higher income work more, vice versaThis

Version 13 of the nutrition and health science unreliable/low-quality information listRELIABLE LIST:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7MCWRiLFuJ9O7h5-srdDQ7FThp9leNTxoouGc9iBpU/edit#gid=1020014575UNRELIABLE LIST:https://docs.google.c

Nutrition quack list updateThis is going to make me persona non grata in many circlesThat's fineHere is the listHelp me add to it and get it up before I get

Six new and sometimes radical principles of online nutrition science communication.A thread. 1. Information does not exist by itself but must be conveyed with rhetoric or art to make maximum

Hot takeLow-carb does not improve blood glucose by reducing glucose intake or decreasing insulin response but *entirely* by causing a reduction in calorie intake by other mechanisms. What’s more, the

A preprint published Monday shows that among 175 recovered COVID-19 patients from Shanghai, 30% showed a low neutralizing antibody response, with 10 patients showing undetectable antibodies. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365

No.A thread.1/n The no's of 04/02/2020:2/n NO.3/n WHAT?! No!4/n God damn it, no.5/n April 5th, 2020No upgraded to stunned silence6/n Somewhere between a wtf no and an lol no7/n No...8/n

Telling people to "lose weight" to survive COVID-19 is in really bad taste and stupid as well, because it: 1. Won't work if "you will die early from heart disease,

How to determine who is a legitimate science-based health expert and who is not.A simple method, a single criterion.A thread. Many popular health experts claim to be science-based. They will

The response of the low-carb community to studies showing that low-carb consistently associates with worse outcomes:"But there were almost no subjects in the study that were low-carb enough."Here is why