The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.
A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.
How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).
A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.
Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies.
The industry’s response to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary.
The sugar industry’s response to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic.
I was honored to testify before the US government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Check out the video to see my speech and a few of my favorite excerpts.
Studies show many doctors tend to overestimate the amount of weight loss caused by obesity drugs or were simply clueless.
Why don’t more people take the weight loss medications currently on the market?
The amazing story about what lobbying millions can do to shut down efforts to protect children.
The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.
How the food industry responds to “health food faddists.”
The biggest barrier to reducing toxic pesticides in cannabis is, not surprisingly, the cannabis industry itself.
Is butter—and other saturated fats—bad for you or not?
Dozens of lipsticks and lip glosses are put to the test.
How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk.
What about the recent studies that show cheese has neutral or positive health effects?
Do the benefits outweigh the risks for acid-blocker drugs (proton pump inhibitors like Nexium/Prilosec/Prevacid)? What about baking soda?
What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?
There have been at least 46 studies involving more than a thousand people to see if those suffering from electrosensitivity are deluding themselves.
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction?
What happened in states after medical marijuana laws were passed? Did opioid overdoses go up, stay the same, or go down?
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test.
Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs?
There are some serious public health concerns about the legalization of marijuana, but they’re probably not what you might expect.
Commercial influences may have corrupted the American College of Sports Medicine’s hydration guidelines.
The World Health Organization concluded that cell phone radiation may cause brain tumors, but what about effects on cognitive function?
What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?
Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to have lower mortality than abstainers?
Is there any benefit to resveratrol? If so, should we get it from wine, grapes, peanuts, or supplements?
If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?
Fact boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format.
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients?
What is the effect of cell phone radiation on sperm motility and DNA damage?
What do nine in ten women say they were never told about mammograms, even though they thought they had the right to know?
