by Michael O'Neill | Feb 6, 2013 | research
I’m rushing out this morning so I don’t have time to share a lot of thoughts on this, but on first glance it seems like quite an inconvenient truth to the old guard: “missing” data from the Sydney Heart Study (1966-1973) has been found, and...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Gary Taubes has a great article in today’s Columbia Journalism Review. He covers a few topics related to the coverage of obesity, and writing about health and nutrition…most notably, he takes on the central question of how multiple writers covering the...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 1, 2013 | research
Ashton Kutcher has been in the news a lot recently. Normally this is something well worth ignoring, but in this instance it’s interesting: He’s been promoting the new Steve Jobs movie (in which he plays Steve Jobs) by explaining how he was hospitalized...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 28, 2013 | video
In this BBC show, Brian Cox takes us on a tour of the history of sugar…how it is produced, how it is marketed, how it is consumed, and ultimately, how it affects us. If you’ve been paying attention to sugar in your diet, you won’t find any health...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Just wanted to drop a quick note here to publicly thank Wiley for sending me a review copy of Seyfried’s book, Cancer As Metabolic Disease. It showed up on my doorstep quite unexpectedly, and of course has prompted a complete revision of my reading schedule....