In a Swedish study published last month in JAMA Open Network, meat consumption was associated with cognitive health in individuals with a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. Does this mean eating meat protects against Alzheimer’s? Does it mean avoiding meat increases risk–i.e., should vegetarians worry that their diets are accelerating cognitive aging? (Hint: I would.) In…
A new post on Uncertainty Principles
RFK Jr and the MAHA Initiative may have inverted the food guide pyramid, turning red meat and full-fat dairy back into health foods, but the American Heart Association has just doubled down on the low-fat, plant-based advice it’s been disseminating for decades. Should we expect anything different from the organization that created the low-fat consensus…
Substack 11: Life Lessons from the Dearly Departed?
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…