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Why can’t the U.S. have clear, sensible food guidelines?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why doesn't the United ...
There’s a good chance your nutritional supplements are laced with deadly substances
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Americans spend more than ...
Bad at planning? You might be out of touch with your future self
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Lately, scientists have come ...
Knowing your biology may help you argue more effectively
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Evidence continues to mount ...
No, there’s no ‘human’ in your veggie dogs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There was a bit ...
Why have mammograms failed to reduce breast cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The whole idea behind ...
23andMe relaunching health tests with nod from FDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetic testing company 23andMe has ...
Can Dr. Oz rehabilitate image as haven for pseudoscience?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Federal Trade Commission had ...
Global Food Series: How much do households from around the world spend on food?
In an absolute sense, the United States spends more per household on food consumed at home ($2,390 per year) than, ...
Have humans manipulated ‘natural’ foods before modern GMOs? Look at a Renaissance painting
Over time, we've bred watermelons to have the bright red color we recognize today. That fleshy interior is actually the ...
Latest blow for Oz: Oprah dumps his radio show, replaces him with Sanjay Gupta
The Dr. Oz media empire just took a blow from the woman who helped make him famous: Oprah Winfrey. According ...
Oz bungled attempt to shift focus to his critics
Dr. Oz is finally responding to his critics. But rather than address their complaints head on, he mostly wants to ...
More trouble in Oz: Wikileaks reveal beleaguered doc promotes products based on ‘business synergy’
Last week, WikiLeaks released a series of emails sent between Dr. Oz, his staff, and executives at Sony (one of ...
Fall of Dr. Oz: Tour of the world of a celebrity medical quack
Dr. Oz is arguably the most influential health professional in America. The Dr. Oz Show, which started in 2009, has an average ...
Overhyping research on ‘cures’ harms patients and medical community
In 2003, researchers writing in the American Journal of Medicine discovered something that should change how you think about medical ...
Combination of stresses contributes to bee deaths
In a recent review paper for Science, a team of researchers argue that the combination of modern stresses facing bees ...
Why we should be concerned about antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Scientists and public-health officials are a careful bunch who don't often paint doomsday scenarios. That is, unless they're talking about ...
Herbicides aren’t sole culprit in Monarch butterfly decline
Monarch butterflies are vanishing. Over the last 20 years, fewer and fewer of them have been making the long journey down to ...
After a decade and a half, stem cells remain a controversial topic
A couple of things helped lessen the [stem cell] controversy. By the late 2000s, researchers discovered other ways to create cells ...
Will Maui and Molokai’s GMO ban hold up in court?
Voters in Maui County approved an initiative that will put a moratorium on the planting of all genetically engineered seeds ...
What we know (and don’t) about the causes of autism
What causes autism? As researchers have worked to unravel t[autism's] nature, they've come to grips with some unsatisfying facts. One is ...
Personal genetics consumers risk uncovering uncertain paternity
Personal genomics products continue to have unintended consequences that end either in joyous occasion, but often times also come with ...
Nap and coffee combo clears neurotransmitters so buzz more effective
It might sound crazy: conventional wisdom is that caffeine interferes with sleep. But if you caffeinate immediately before napping and sleep for ...
New horizons and future directions for epigenetics
Ever since the age of Darwin — and especially since the discovery of DNA — scientists have thought of biological inheritance ...
Rise of GM crops in America over past decade
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently posted new data on how genetically modified crops have taken over American farms in the past ...
GMOs not any riskier than modern traditional breeding methods
"Traditional breeding methods" for crops have actually changed a lot over time — they haven't just remained static for 10,000 years. And ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson shows GMOs are not liberals’ equivalent of climate denial
I once asked Twitter to name the liberal equivalent of conservatism's climate change denial: that is to say, an issue ...
Skepticism grows over claims that organic food is healthier
You've no doubt noticed that organic foods are a fair bit more expensive at the grocery store. An organic head ...
