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A science channel asked what a good gut microbiome is, and didn't sell you one

SciShow's answer to "what makes a gut microbiome good" is diversity plus luck, and no product. We'd go further on probiotics than they did, add the detail they dropped from the FMT trial, and flag one number we couldn't trace.

Sep 14

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A third of the RD exam is management and money, not nutrients

KWCH covered a gift from incarcerated men toward a Kansas district's unpaid meal balances. School lunch is a budget line — and under the credentialing body's own specification, 34% of the exam that makes someone a dietitian is management and foodservice.

Sep 10

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Adrenal fatigue was named in 1998 by the man who still sells the cure

Nutrition For Mortals traced the diagnosis back to the naturopath who named it. We followed the trail forward — his storefront still lists nine adrenal products, and the 80% figure influencers quote traces to his own book, not to a study.

Aug 6

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Harvard asked whether seed oils are harmful. The answer needs one asterisk

The mainstream position on seed oils is well supported. It is also being defended slightly more confidently than the evidence warrants — and some of the reassurance is soy-industry funded.

Jul 25

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Consumer Reports found lead and cadmium in dark chocolate. Here's what the numbers mean

A viral panic that tracked real lab testing. The measurements hold up; the threshold they're measured against has a strange history worth knowing.

Jul 25

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Shriners Children's is warning about the molten sugar trend for a second year

A hospital repeating a burn warning a year later is a different signal from a hospital issuing one. The mechanism, and the baseline it sits on top of.

Jul 25

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The injury ledger: viral food trends that put people in hospital

Molten sugar, unguarded blades, dry hydrocolloids and undiluted stimulants. What sends people to emergency departments is rarely the nutrition — it's the technique.

Jul 25

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H5N1 and raw milk: what actually happened, in order

Bird flu in dairy cattle has been unfolding since March 2024 in fragments. The sequence in one place, with sources — including the study that gets cited for the opposite of what it found.

Jul 25