Ultra-Processed Foods
Maintenance Phase
Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement.
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- Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
- Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
- Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
- A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
- Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
- Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
- Ultra-processed foods and mortality
- Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
- Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
- Food addiction: a valid concept?
- The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
- Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
- Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
- Sugar addiction: the state of the science
- The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
- Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
- Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake
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BONUS: MAHA's First 90 Days
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From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.
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The Bulletproof Diet
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Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress.
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- Mycotoxins Myth: The Truth About Mold in Coffee
- Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed
- You, Only Better
- FTC letter to Dave Asprey
- Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry.
- The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America
- Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype
- Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich
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Blue Zones
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The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.
Thanks to Catherine MacDonald for helping us research and fact-check this episode!
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- The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography
- Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors
- Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud
- Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer?
- They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa
- The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human
- A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia
- Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths
- Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature
- Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island
- Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia
- Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion
- Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?
- Familial transmission of human longevity
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BONUS: What's New With RFK Jr.?
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Because we live in hell, here is last month's bonus episode about RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign with a new intro about what he could do at HHS.
See you next year!
Richard Simmons Isn't Missing
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The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.
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- Richard Simmons Show
- Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye
- The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness
- The Sultan of Svelte
- The Deregulation Of Commercial Television
- Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful
- Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’
- Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit
- Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop
- Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead
- Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'
- Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence
- How eating disorders can damage the heart
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Growing Up Richard Simmons
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Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.
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- Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons
- "Hair-Do"
- Anatomy Asylum Commercial
- Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero
- A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
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How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.
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- The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre
- Myers Briggs Type Preferences
- What Personality Tests Really Deliver
- The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
- Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI
- The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment
- The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs
- Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless
- Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?
- What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
- MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
- Personality Tests Aren't All the Same
- The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap
Maintenance Phase
We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!
This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!
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Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/
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Stonewall: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/
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"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.
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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!
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- Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
- The "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" Controversy at AACAP's Annual Meeting
- Methodological Critique Of The Cass Review
- Methodological Critique of Littman (2018)
- Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
- A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’.
- Foundations Of The Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
- Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases
- Opinion: England's Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science
- Tavistock v Bell
- Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files
- As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view
- States Passed a Record Number of Transgender Laws. Here’s What They Say.
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"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 1: The Cooties Theory of Transgender Identity
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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!
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- Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
- What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
- Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
- Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
- Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: a Descriptive Study
- The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
- How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
- Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
- 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
- A careful step into a field of landmines
- Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates
- Recognizing and responding to misleading trans health research
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Jamie Oliver
Maintenance Phase
In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?
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- BBC Profile - Jamie Oliver
- Jamie Oliver Puts America's Diet on a Diet
- All The Times Jamie Oliver Made Everyone Angry
- Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
- A brief history of school meals in the UK
- Turkey Twizzlers: A Complete History
- Marcus Rashford Is Fighting the Government on Free School Meals. He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy
- Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
- Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty
- Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones
- Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster
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COVID Conspiracies
Maintenance Phase
What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.
Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter, Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!
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- How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ
- Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
- Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
- Disinformation and coronavirus
- COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter
- Pain in the Nation
- Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
- Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
- Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition
- A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation
- Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
- Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
- The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19
- The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
- Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?
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Ozempic
Maintenance Phase
Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?
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- How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic
- The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide
- Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor
- Insurers clamping down on doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss
- Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area
- Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
- Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK
- Safety of Semaglutide
- Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review
- Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
- Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5
- Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases
- Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States
- Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data
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"Soy Boys"
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How a plant-based pejorative went from an alt-right burn to a core concern of mainstream Republicans.
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- Joe Explains the Term "Soy Boy" to Donnell Rawlings
- Alex Jones Gay Bomb Rant
- Soyboys and Sensitivity: Mocking Meat Avoidance from Punch to Twitter
- How the alt-right uses milk to promote white supremacy
- Men's Health 2009 piece
- Neither soy nor isoflavone intake affects male reproductive hormones
- A Brief History of Conservatives Using Tofu-Eating as an Insult
- The Soy Conspiracy
- Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph Watson, Is About to Steal His Crackpot Crown
- Why Men Think Plant-Based Meat Will Turn Them Into Women
- Stangle: Impossible burgers are made of what?
- Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
- Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Masculinity
- Real American men and the liberal war on meat
- “The Great Replacement:” An Explainer
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RFK Jr. and The Mainstreaming Of The Anti-Vaxx Movement
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Join us for a 75 minute answer to a 5 word question: Is there mercury in vaccines?
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- Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
- Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
- Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
- Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement”
- Steve Silberman’s “Neurotribes”
- Transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting
- A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends
- Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature
- CDC Studies on Thimerosal in Vaccines
- RFK Jr’s 2005 article on mercury and vaccines
- RFK Jr.’s Inside Job
- Vast Majority of Americans Say Benefits of Childhood Vaccines Outweigh Risks
- Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- When Vaccine Injury Claims Go to Court
- Vaccine Compensation Hearing Decision
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RFK Jr. and The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement
Maintenance Phase
A political candidate has some questions and we have some extremely obvious answers.
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- Eric Garcia’s “We’re Not Broken”
- Mike and Sarah’s episode on autism and the anti-vaxx movement
- Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
- Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement”
- Brian Deer’s “The Doctor Who Fooled the World”
- Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
- Steve Silberman’s “Neurotribes”
- Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
- Behind The Bastards episode on smallpox anti-vaxxers
- RFK Jr.’s Inside Job
The Conspiracy Candidate - David Pitts's "Jack and Lem”
- RFK Jr.’s autobiography
- Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature
- Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
- Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine ‘facts’
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Pilates
Maintenance Phase
Somehow an episode about an old-timey fitness influencer ended up being one of our most wholesome ever. We're as surprised as you are.
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- Pilates and the “powerhouse"
- Sick Architecture - Ibiayi Briggs - Body Culture and Contrology
- World War One: Internment centre 'will unlock' family tales
- The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp
- The exercise phenomenon born in a prisoner-of-war camp
- History of Pilates
- An Introduction to Clinical Pilates
- The Fight for the Soul of Pilates
- Did you know Pilates was born in prison and inspired by cats?
- Inside The Shocking (Black) History Of Pilates
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Brittany Dawn
Maintenance Phase
How a fitness influencer went from small-time scammer to one of the Internet’s leading villains.
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- THIS IS DISTURBING
- goodbye for now…
- How Dallas-area influencer Brittany Dawn found herself at the mercy of social media's double-edged sword
- Conversations with the Inspiring Brittany Dawn
- Influencer Asks Customers to Sign NDA Before Refund
- Brittany Dawn's archived apology video
- Influencer Called 'Scammer' for Not Providing Coaching
- ‘You can’t cancel me’: embattled TikTok star reinvents herself as a warrior for Jesus
- Here’s what to know about the lawsuit against Texas influencer Brittany Dawn
- Followers Of Christian Influencer Brittany Dawn Said They Are Angry That She Pivoted To Religion To Avoid Scrutiny
- Fitness gurus and 'muscular Christianity': how Victorian Britain anticipated today's keep fit craze
- The Fitness-Driven Church | Christianity Today
- Christian influencer Brittany Dawn defends her foster parent journey amid criticism of her past, monetized baby posts
- Police Brutality Against Black Kansas City Man Caught on Video
- Brittany Dawn Fitness LLC
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BONUS: The Conservative Diet Books of Yore
Maintenance Phase
We're taking a much-needed break this week so to tide you over here is one of our bonus episodes!
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Oprah v. Beef Part 2: Apocalypse Cow
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The closing argument of our two-part Oprahsode starts in a Texas courtroom, wanders through some British slaughterhouses and ends with an emu.
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- "How the Cows Turned Mad" by Maxime Schwartz
- “Deadly Feasts” by Richard Rhodes
- "Mad Cow USA"
- UK Parliamentary inquiry
- How The West Was Won Over
- Texas Cattle Feeders v. Oprah Winfrey: The First Major Test of the “Veggie Libel Law”
- Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials
- The Unconstitutionality Of Iowa's Proposed Agricultural Food Products Act And Similar Veggie Libel Laws
- Appeal
- Original Lawsuit
- Food Safety Vs. Promotion Of Industry: Can The USDA Protect Americans From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
- Apocalypse Cow
- Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Mad Cow congressional hearing
- GAO report
- The Harvard Risk Assessment
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Oprah v. Beef Part 1: The Rise of "Veggie Libel"
Maintenance Phase
On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey did a show about mad cow disease. Six weeks later, a couple of Texas cattlemen had a cow (sorry).
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- Original Lawsuit
- Appeal
- How Oprah Got Sued for Dissing a Burger
- Two Degrees of Speech Protection
- Texas Cattle Feeders v. Oprah Winfrey: The First Major Test of the “Veggie Libel Law”
- Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials
- Howard Lyman talk
- The Unconstitutionality Of Iowa's Proposed Agricultural Food Products Act And Similar Veggie Libel Laws
- How the Cows Turned Mad
- Food Safety Vs. Promotion Of Industry: Can The USDA Protect Americans From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
- Apocalypse Cow
- GAO report
- A is for Apple, Alar, and ... Alarmist?
- Alar Five Years Later
- Auvil v. CBS 60 Minutes
- Alar and Apples: Newspaper Coverage of a Major Risk Issue.
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The 10,000 Steps Myth
Maintenance Phase
This week we're digging into the weird history of an omnipresent fitness goal. Episode comes free with a happy meal.
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- 10,000 Steps: A Brief History
- Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
- A Japanese first-mover in the fitness wearables race
- Counting Every Step You Take
- When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
- McDonald's Enlists Trainer To Help Sell Its New Meal
- Get happy with McDonald's Go Active Happy Meal for adults
- McDonald's Stepometer
- McDonald's pushing salads and pedometers
- The fight for healthier McDonald's Happy Meals
- Step-It Canadian TV ad
- McDonald's serves up Happy Meals for grow-ups
- McDonald's removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
- A Very Serious Review of McDonald’s Flesh-Burning Fitness Tracker
- McDonald’s quietly ended controversial program that was making parents and teachers uncomfortable
- Watch your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science
- When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
- Why Counting Your Steps Could Make You Unhappier
- How many steps are enough?
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The Trouble with Sugar
Maintenance Phase
This week we're tackling three big ideas about sugar: It causes hyperactivity in kids, it's as addictive as cocaine and it raises blood sugar in universal, predictably spiky ways.
Thanks to David Johnston for helping us with sources for this week’s episode!
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- Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole Smith
- Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness by Karen Throsby
- Is sugar really as addictive as cocaine? Scientists row over effect on body and brain
- Sugar Is Not the Enemy
- Dr. Benjamin F. Feingold, Controversial Pediatrician
- Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Sugar High’?
- Effects of Diets High in Sucrose or Aspartame on The Behavior and Cognitive Performance of Children
- Sugar and the Hyperactive Child
- Some popular diets are based on this carb-rating scale. Here’s why it could be misleading.
- Glycemic Index: History and Clinical Application
- Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
- Low glycaemic index or low glycaemic load diets for overweight and obesity
- What is the glycaemic index
- Don't Play a Numbers Game, Experts Say, Just Eat Your Vegetables
- Sugar addiction: the state of the science
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"Forks Over Knives": Is a Vegetarian Diet Better For You?
Maintenance Phase
A viral documentary says a "whole foods plant-based diet" will prevent heart disease and cure cancer. But once we look into the MEAT of the matter will we find factual CREAM of the crop or will we cry FOWL? (we're so sorry)
Thanks to Katherine Flegal for helping Mike with this episode!
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- Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat: a Burden of Proof study
- Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium
- Present status of the aflatoxin situation in the Philippines
- The role of natural consequences in the changing death patterns
- Dietary Protein and Amino Acids in Vegetarian Diets—A Review
- Quality of Plant-Based Diet and Risk of Total, Ischemic, and Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
- Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?
- Observational evidence does not necessarily imply causation
- The Problem with Observational Studies (Epidemiology)
- Vegetarian Diet Patterns and Chronic Disease Risk: What We Know and What We Don’t
- The rise, the fall and the renaissance of vitamin E
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Ultra-Processed Foods
1:11:20
BONUS: MAHA's First 90 Days
53:16
The Bulletproof Diet
53:40
Blue Zones
1:07:30
BONUS: What's New With RFK Jr.?
1:12:18
Richard Simmons Isn't Missing
1:05:35
Growing Up Richard Simmons
1:01:57
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
55:19
BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap
1:03:14
"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.
1:31:18
"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 1: The Cooties Theory of Transgender Identity
1:27:46
Jamie Oliver
1:02:52
COVID Conspiracies
1:27:39
Ozempic
58:21
"Soy Boys"
44:06
RFK Jr. and The Mainstreaming Of The Anti-Vaxx Movement
1:13:53
RFK Jr. and The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement
1:14:30
Pilates
44:59
Brittany Dawn
1:01:08
BONUS: The Conservative Diet Books of Yore
56:17
Oprah v. Beef Part 2: Apocalypse Cow
1:08:01
Oprah v. Beef Part 1: The Rise of "Veggie Libel"
1:03:40
The 10,000 Steps Myth
49:07
The Trouble with Sugar
49:21
"Forks Over Knives": Is a Vegetarian Diet Better For You?
1:02:33