A group with which I was unfamiliar, PropellerFish, sent me a report of a survey it conducted: Partisan Wellbeing in America. Earlier this year, we sponsored a study to take a more robust look at how partisanship may be shaping people’s decisions around health, nutrition and wellbeing. We

I was induced to watch all of this video because Chris MacAskill, whom I do not know personally but who quoted me a couple of times briefly in a previous show, starts out his investigations by displaying my book Food Politics.   This is titled, “How Food Myths SPREAD: Fact Checking Dr David

While I’m catching up on items I’ve been wanting to post about I ran across this report from NIH about its nutrition research initiatives.    Some highlights: NIH’s total investment in nutrition-related research was approximately $2.0 billion in FY20 and $2.1 billion in FY21. Nutrition

A report, Science Education in an Age of Misinformation, from Stanford University and written by a distinguished group of scientists addresses a question I get asked all the time: how do you know whom to trust when reading articles about food and nutrition. It presents a decision tree for

I always appreciate the Headline vs. Study sections of the Obesity and Energetics newsletter that arrives in my email once a week. This one concerns coffee.  It amuses me that researchers are always trying to prove either that coffee is a superfood or that it is poison. It’s neither, but never