Tag Archive for: health news

Problems with the Dark-Chocolate Study

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The journalist and his colleagues who perpetrated the dark chocolate and weight loss study I talked about Tuesday were out to prove a point: typical journalists, even the ones who specialize in health, don’t really understand the fundamentals of nutrition, weight loss, and fitness. They especially don’t understand statistics and how they’re misapplied even in legitimate studies. Nothing new there.

What I think they did show was that there are many news and information sources on the web that will publish anything provocative. Dark chocolate helping weight loss certainly fit that profile.

The author explained everything he . . .

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The Truth About Sunscreen!

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In today’s message, I’m going to examine the science behind the article on sunscreen that started this week’s look at reposting websites. There are three primary research findings used in the article that are supposed to blow the lid off the myth of sunscreen preventing cancer. Let’s take a look.
“Avoiding the sun doubles all-cause mortality”
This research finding is taken from an epidemiological study done at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute titled the Melanoma in Southern Sweden Study or MISS (1). The data does show that over 20 years in a group of close to . . .

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The Problem with Reposting Websites

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I get asked a lot of questions about articles posted on other health-related websites. Some are legit, but usually it’s something with a provocative title to get your attention: “Scientists Blow the Lid on Sunscreen & Cancer Myth” is one someone asked me to check as I was preparing Tuesday’s message on sunscreen. This is a perfect opportunity to talk about something that’s been troubling me for several months: reposting websites. I don’t know if that’s what they’re officially called, but it seems to fit what they do.

These reposting websites find the . . .

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The Exercise Myth

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I often begin the week’s messages by responding to a health headline gone crazy. The headline generally sensationalizes what’s in the article, usually supported with press releases with similar headlines. Not in this case; every headline I read was spot on.

Here’s the actual title of the editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

It Is Time to Bust the Myth of Physical Inactivity and Obesity: You Cannot Outrun a Bad Diet

Before I go further, ask yourself a question: do you believe that if you exercised . . .

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