This month two reputable doctors, horrified by the rise in bariatric surgeries to reduce the harms associated with diabetes, published an op-ed on the front page of the Sunday Review of the NYTimes sharply suggesting that we’re doing it all wrong with it comes to medical measures recommended for diabetics. Most doctors — and theContinue reading “Low fat, saturated fat, and sugar: the confusion continues”
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Did avoiding fats make our obesity problem worse?
Could the misunderstanding about fat have made the American problem with obesity worse? That’s the understated implication — or an implication — of the latest version of the medical consensus on fats in the bloodstream, as defined by Frank Hu, head of Harvard’s School of Public Health, in a story by Jane Brody in the NYTimes with aContinue reading “Did avoiding fats make our obesity problem worse?”
How to confuse the media and public: Butter ’em up
A few months ago the rapturous reporting of a new study on saturated fat caught my eye. Sounded too good to be true, and, well, long story short, that's exactly what it turned out to be. Here's the opening, from the USC Annenberg/California Endowment's Reporting on Health site: Time to jump on the bandwagon ofContinue reading “How to confuse the media and public: Butter ’em up”
Kit Stolz 