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Category Archives: Nutrition and eating
What happens when facts lead us to where we don’t want to go?
As I outlined in the last entry, sometimes the facts take you to a place you don’t want to go. Obviously the first thing to do is make sure you have your facts in order. But if the facts are … Continue reading
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Looking for keys under a streetlamp
Why do RCTs of nutritional supplements often show no benefit? As I pointed out in a previous post, many of the large intervention trials over the past few years that have looked at the effect of nutritional supplements on health … Continue reading
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Paradigm shifts, correlations and intervention trials
I have read that paradigms change from the outside, and do so slowly. I got into the field I am in now (therapeutic nutrition) over 40 years ago. Back then, the conventional wisdom of the medical community was that vitamin … Continue reading
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An examined life (Part 2)
So what exactly does it mean, to “examine one’s life”? As I’ve mentioned in these posts, what brought this to my attention so forcefully was the death of my friend Mike Katke a little over two weeks ago. There were … Continue reading
Nerdly aside: randomized controlled trials (RCTs) defined
The placebo effect is a well-known phenomenon in medicine. If a person is told they are being given an extremely powerful and effective new medication, a significant percentage will improve, even if they are not told the product they are being … Continue reading →