I’ve wanted to write for years about the seemingly unseemly tendency in the nutrition world to speculate about the dietary lessons we can learn when a prominent promoter of a particular dietary philosophy passes away. It’s not inappropriate to ask these questions. But there are limits to what we can ever know. The recent passing…
Substack 10: Magic Pill and the Satiety Problem Problem
My latest post on Unsettled Science: Johann Hari’s new book, Magic Pill, does a good job on the benefits and risks of taking a drug like Ozempic. It goes off the rails when he gets around to discussing the science of obesity. Consider this the Satiety Problem Problem. Another learning experience (we didn’t need) on…
Substack 9: The science activist problem. What nutrition and climate science have in common.
In the years after I published Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), I would frequently get emails from readers saying, in effect, “now that you’ve taken on nutrition science, would you look into climate change?” I never did and, I would reply, I almost assuredly never would. That’s still true, but this week I took the…