More Thoughts on Macronutrient Trends

I had a brief positive exchange with Gary Taubes about the NuSI post.  He reminded me that there's an artifact (measurement error) in the USDA data on fat consumption in the year 2000 when they changed assessment methods.  Here are the USDA data on macronutrient consumption since 1970, corrected for loss (28.8%) but not corrected for the artifact:Read more...

Kata Mutiara Islam: Bersedekahlah

Kata Mutiara Islam :BersedekahlahKata kata indah islam dan kata mutiara islam: BersedekahlahKata kata indah Islam :Bersedekah tidak akan membuat Kita merasa kekurangan melainkan sebalik...

Kata Mutiara:Bangkitlah dari kegelapan

Kata Mutiara Motivasi :Bangkitlah dari Kegelapankata kata indah kehidupan dan kata mutiara motivasi : Bangkitlah dari KegelapanKata kata indah kehidupan:Jangan biarkan dirimu berada dalam Kegelapan.Karena dalam kegelapan, Bayanganpun akan meninggalkan...

Kata Mutiara : Nothing Is Impossible

kata kata indah kehidupan :Nothing Is ImpossibleKata kata indah dan kata mutiara :Nothing Is ImpossibleKata kata bijak kehidupanKata Mutiara :Nohing Is Impossi...

Twilight of the Anechoic Effect? - New England Journal of Medicine Article Discusses Previously Taboo Topic of Bad Corporate Health Care Leadership

We have often complained of the anechoic effect, that the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal often do not seem to be considered topics of polite conversation.  Any discussion that might question the brilliance, integrity, dedication, or selflessness of the leaders of health care organizations seems particularly taboo.  So a major aim of this blog has been to discuss the numerous publicly available examples of leadership that is ill-informed,...

A Good Reason to Refuse Use of Today's EHR's in Your Health Care, and Demand Paper

I've written before that health IT, including the technology and the social infrastructure in which it resides, is not ready for widespread diffusion.  Its widespread dissemination (on largely economic grounds) at this point in its development is premature, and is destructive.So much, in fact, that I am considering demanding that any physician I see or hospital I visit use paper records, not any EHR they have available.Think that extreme? ...

Open letter to Tom Naughton

You've been punked.  Oh .... and your version of Krusegate contains a blatant lie, not to mention that you put the smears out long past when the facts of his lies were out.  Of course my comment went directly to your trash.  I on the other hand have the balls you so clearly lack to discuss things here.  You can comment, really.  I'm not afraid of you, but you apparently are...

bright white....that's what i need right now.  i stayed up too late last night.  i'm not a good sleeper when my husband is away (luckily he's on his way home now).  so i stay up really late listening to all the sounds, triple checking on my sleeping kiddos, watching horrible late night tv, looking at pinterest...i wish i was just the kind of person who got into bed and fell fast asleep....

NuSI, NuSI ... What to make of NuSI

Boy Wonder Attia has called off hiswar on insulin, but his character lives onWell Gary Taubes and Peter Attia -- or, if there was ever a time to refer to them by their superhero Asylum names, Fatman and Glucagon  -- have launched their project, NuSI, the Nutritional Science Initiative.Finally!  Some real proper science will get done, free from the stranglehold of bias inherent in the evil...