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Milk: Is It the Elixir We’ve Been Sold?

Joe Keon — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:58:52 +0000

Milk sales first began to slow in the US in 1970, and the industry has been scrambling to stop the free fall ever since. Although the connection between milk, calcium, and bone health has been the cornerstone of dairy advertising, the industry has also engaged in continual efforts to expand the image of what milk can do for Americans. But no matter what purported benefits they use to entice consumers, the dairy industry has been plagued by an absence of credible research to support their assertions.

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Written by Joe Keon.

Oversaturation of Fat in the Media

Susan Levin, MS, RD, CSSD — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:26:28 +0000

We have known for decades that fatty foods are anything but good for you, but recent media reports glorifying saturated have caused confusion. Do not be fooled. There is nothing healthful about butter, bacon, cheese, or steak. Saturated fat poses numerous severe health risks of which everyone should be aware.

This recent confusion over saturated fat may be a result of people trying to blame carbs for the nation’s weight problems—even though the country’s grain intake is actually far lower than what it once was.

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Written by Susan Levin, MS, RD, CSSD.

How Do You Like These Apples?

T. Colin Campbell, PhD — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:15:44 +0000

I am writing in response to George Johnson’s article in the New York Times An Apple a Day, and Other Myths dated 4/21/14. With this title, I am imagining that the New York Times is proposing to be our myth buster.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

Diet Matters: Clarifying the Link between Breast Cancer and Eating Patterns

T. Colin Campbell, PhD — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:09:52 +0000

It was June 1982. At a news conference in Washington, DC, a group of internationally recognized scientists had just finished announcing the National Research Council’s report on diet, nutrition, and cancer.[1] The report received extensive news coverage, criticism from the industry most affected by the report’s conclusion, and according to some authorities, the highest number … Continued

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

Letter to the Editor: Journal of the American Medical Association

T. Colin Campbell, PhD — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:02:05 +0000

Holmes et al, using data from the Nurses' Health Study, report no significant association between breast cancer risk and type of dietary fat consumed, a finding mostly (but not entirely) consistent with earlier reports on this important study.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

Dietary Fat is Only Partly Where It’s At

T. Colin Campbell, PhD — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:08:50 +0000

The breast cancer/dietary fat relationship, once a key point in getting American women to switch their eating habits, has now been seriously challenged. A prominent Harvard study of nearly 90,000 American nurses,

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

Fat and Plant-Based Diets

T. Colin Campbell, PhD — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:25 +0000

I don't argue for a 10% fat diet as the main starting point. Rather, I begin with the view that a plant-based diet is optimal and it just so happens that this diet, when done right

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.