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fake news

Does the discovery of 170 000-year-old roast veggies “Kill the paleo diet?”

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 by Keir Watson

Read Time: 6 min Discovery of roasted tubers in a 170 000 year old South African cave has led to some spurious media claims about the Paleo diet.

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Categories Fake News Award, In the News Tags cooked tubers, fake news, paleo diet

Fake News #1 – Low carb diets linked to risk of birth defects

December 1, 2019February 5, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 3 min We take the papers to task for this highly misleading story which does not even apply to women in the UK.

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Categories Bad Medicine, In the News Tags fake news, folate, folic acid, fortified foods, low carb diets, neural tube defects

2019 The Year Vegan Pseudo-Science goes Mainstream?

December 1, 2019February 3, 2019 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 8 min • Veganuary Blues
• Meatless Burgers
• Eat-Lancet Report
•Vegan diets need supplements

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Categories Nutrition Tags Coffee with Afifah, EAT Lancet, fake news, plant-based diets, Veganuary, Walter Willett, World Carnivore Month

Gluten-free diet MAY be unhealthy and MAY increase risk of heart attack (or not)

October 18, 2019May 12, 2017 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 5 min Fake news; alternative facts; plus a dose of healthy skepticism. We take a look behind the recent gluten headlines.

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Categories In the News Tags Article, fake news, Gluten, gluten-free diet, heart disease, news headlines, paleo diet, real food, Walter Willett

Fake News #2 – Best diets for 2018 awards

June 5, 2019February 24, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 3 min The recent Best Diet Awards from the U.S. News & World Report, placed low carb diets bottom, claiming they had “No evidence” to support them… Oh really?

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Categories Fake News Award, In the News Tags DASH, fake news, low carb diets, Ornish, Paleo, U.S. News & World Report, weight loss, Zone

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