A post over on Sciencebase about alcohol, drugs, and genetics prompted a comment from David Brown, which we reproduce in full here:
I’ve studied alcohol issues to some extent as they relate to genetic predisposition and nutritional modulators. It appears that primates share configurations of genetically determined metabolism that affect drinking behavior. Check out this video. [...]

The phrase “artery clogging saturated fats” has been in common usage for many years. In fact the notion that saturated fats cause heart disease had it’s genesis in research conducted by Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota Physiologist. I’ll have Henry Blackburn, MD, Mayo Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, begin [...]

Valery Fortie is the National Awareness Coordinator of Mediterraneanbook.com, a directory of news source focused on healthy eating habits. The author suggests that the Mediterranean Diet can help ward off many diseases and illnesses.
One of those serious and potentially life threatening diseases is breast cancer. With a risk of one in seven people developing breast [...]

I hate hearsay and received wisdom regarding health and medicine. There are too many old tales of cure-alls that are nothing more than snake oil and advice on what’s good for you and what’s not. The UK government is as guilty as any organization for spreading food rumors, but the UK’s Food Standard’s Agency has [...]