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Food Matters but the film does not
I finally watched the “documentary” Food Matters on Netflix. It’s always good to find out what’s floating around out there regarding nutrition and health. I managed to avoid getting annoyed for...
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Bacon: the new superfood?
I saw a tweet the other day trumpeting the virtues of bacon. Apparently bacon is no longer just delicious, it’s actually a healthy choice. I love bacon. When I lived in residence way back in the day I...
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Eating your way to strong teeth
While I am a firm believer that aspects of our health are interrelated and that nutrition affects both our physical and mental health, I am also a firm believer that many people misrepresent these...
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The cure for heart disease
My mum recently sent me a link to this article about the perils of a low-fat diet. While I am in complete agreement that a low-fat diet is not a healthy diet (we need all of the macronutrients: fats,...
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Eggs: Get quacking
A friend sent me a link to an article entitled “10 Reasons to Eat Your Yolks” looking for my opinion. In my opinion, yolks are great. They’re where much of the nutrition in the egg is stored. One egg...
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Is there poison in your water?
You know, I get why people are sucked in by alarmist quackery. It’s just so damn convincing. A link on twitter recently led me to this article on the horrors of fluoride. As soon as I clicked the link...
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Fruit: cause and cure for cancer?
A relative recently forwarded me a chain email that she had received several times, suggesting it might be useful blog fodder. The subject line read: Eating Fruit – In Perspective. The message was...
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Follow Friday: Julia vs Gwyneth
Lots of talk on the twitterverse about Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook It’s All Good. While I haven’t seen it myself, and the recipes therein may be perfectly tasty and nutritious, she’s been slammed...
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The tooth-whitening power of raisins!
I feel like this shouldn’t need any comment. When I saw this tweet my first thought was: @DrOz has been hacked! I mean, really? Raisins for white teeth? This is one of the most ludicrous suggestions...
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Dr Oz and banana leaf tea
Oh Dr Oz. Where do you come-up with these gems? I can’t find any research to support this statement. Even if it’s true that banana leaf tea has a metabolism-boosting effect, it’s more than likely that...
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Follow Friday: The red flags of quackery v2.0
Yeah, I know, this is old but it’s still applicable (unfortunately). Check out the excellent guide to quackery by sci-ence to avoid falling prey to nutritional and scientific nonsense. You can also...
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Supplements: Should I take truBrain drinks?
I guess promoted tweets do come in handy every now and again. Blog fodder. This tweet appeared in my feed last week: Naturally, my response was: that sounds like complete and utter bullshit. I went to...
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Eating to change your eye colour
I recently came across a post by David Wolfe (yeah, that guy) about the ability of a raw food diet to change your eye colour. Apparently this is a thing ever since some raw food guru nutritionista...
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Are dietitians getting too sexy?
A few years ago I wrote a blog post that really hit a nerve with other dietitians. It was about how dietitians just aren’t sexy. This was in the sense that we don’t hop on trends (unlike other...
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Breathing vs raw food. Should we be getting our oxygen from our diet?
Does everyone remember when that Australian “health coach” told everyone that cancer is actually good for you (see above)? And then everyone piled on and she relented and removed the post and made a...
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Scientific illiteracy will be the death of us
Maybe it’s nothing new but it seems to me that there’s an ever increasing lack of scientific literacy in government and I worry about the impact that this will have on all of us. Just a few recent...
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