#Dietary

Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)

UntoNuggan

[Dietary restrictions]My body: hey so our joints are wonky and we have very little energy so please don't overdo it or you'll suffer, k?Me: ...ok so frozen meals are easyMy

Brianne Benness

bennessb

[food/diet]If you're chronically ill, do you restrict your diet* to help manage your symptoms?*in any way, from following a formal protocol to avoiding your own collection of trigger foods well

Tom Babington

Tom_Babington1

"We conclude that virtually no evidence is available from randomized, controlled intervention studies among healthy, noninfant human beings to show that addition of LA to the diet increases the concentration

Lee Aase

LeeAase

THREADWhen someone has publicly championed scientific orthodoxy for 30 years it takes integrity to be open to considering contrary evidence.It's exceptional for one who's written a "how to" book based

Tamar Haspel

TamarHaspel

Some folks are mad that the Dietary Guidelines didn’t lower the added sugar rec from 10% of cals to 6.They say it’s rejecting the science of the advisory committee.I think

Rebecca Shatsky, MD

Dr_RShatsky

Today’s oncology rant is about dietary supplements and liver damage. Simultaneously one of my favorite and least favorite topics. Many (dare I say most?) patients come to me believing “natural”

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

What? I'm not sure where you are getting your information from or what Americans you hang out with when you visit, but I don't know anyone who fits this description.

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

LOL. Right. And how do you think the food environment gets shaped? You don't have to "know" about the guidelines in order to be affected by them *across the socio-ecological

Nina Teicholz

bigfatsurprise

Thread Re: #DietaryGuidelines (DGA), just out: USDA-HHS Secys said they're for “all Americans,” yet the DGA is scoped ONLY for disease prevention, not treatment. This ignores the 60% of US

Danielle Belardo, MD

DBelardoMD

Why I’m the most disliked vegan doctor, by vegans.Intellectual honesty doesn’t always make you popular.A thread. First of all, I’m vegan. It’s my personal choice. Veganism is a lifestyle, not

I Am Disabled.

thespinsterymc

TW: Child abuse, child death.I’m having so many conflicting emotions about this story. While these parents are unequivocally abusive, I’m also not a fan of using incarceration to punish child

Nina Teicholz

bigfatsurprise

In the US, "We live shorter, poorer lives" according to a Nat'l Academies' report. The report was called a "catalogue of horrors." Newspapers were "stunned" and "surprised." That was 2013.

Actually malicious, no actual malice

apark2453

Oh goddamn the comments responding to this.Let's rapid-fire some of these, but to begin with the most basic principle:A sincerely held belief is protected the same as any other, there

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

To me, this comment & some that follow indicate that there are some misconceptions about how we got where we are now (& thus, I think, some mistaken ideas about

Dave Feldman

DaveKeto

1/ #ReadingThreadThis paper by @zinocker, @kariannesve, @simondankel is proving an interesting read. Before I get too much further, I'm going to turn it into a "reading thread" and post some

Joe is waiting for curling to resume 🥌

joejamesw

It's PKU Awareness day, and I'm here to tell you about a rare genetic disorder called phenylketonuria or #PKU. PKU is a disorder of amino acid metabolism, specifically phenylalanine or

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