The Times’ Frank Bruni on calorie counts

Yesterday’s Sunday Times column by former chief food critic Frank Bruni discusses, somewhat ruefully, the accelerating trend toward posting calorie counts more or less everywhere food can be purchased. (This “trend” will be accelerated when the...

Strict glycemic control has long-term benefits in type 1 diabetes

Because intensive control of blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes can have negative side effects — such as repeated bouts of low-blood sugar (hypoglycemia) — it is important to evaluate whether such tight control is worth the risk. The Diabetes Control...

Shout out to Derek Lowe’s ‘A little chemical education’

In a world dominated by the click of a button, where bad news seemingly travels at the speed of light, while science-based good news barely makes it into the media at all, it should come as no surprise that an article titled “Eight Foods That We Eat In The U.S....

Some progress against HPV thanks to the vaccine

The  prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), which is both a major cause of cervical cancer and the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, has been cut in half among teenage girls. Because the United States has such a low HPV...

Some sanity on genetically engineered foods

Will wonders never cease? The British newspaper The Guardian has reported the sobering news that crop yields will be inadequate to feed the burgeoning world population by 2050.  But that’s not the amazing thing — that news has been around for a while....

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