Wellness

The Corporate Playbook Behind Undermining Dietary Guidelines

International Life Sciences Institute, a nonprofit, is accused of being a front group for Coca-Cola and other junk food giants.…

Big Sugar Twists the Science behind the Dietary Guidelines

How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process? In 2016, a Washington-based lobby group…

When Should We Rely on Observational Studies?

How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?…

Meat Studies Fail to Apply GRADE Properly

The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine. A series of articles published in the Annals of…

The Many Conflicts of Interest Behind the Meat Studies

The same person paid by Big Sugar to downplay the risks of sugar was paid by Big Meat to downplay…

The Meat Papers Contradicted Their Own Data

The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death.…

How Big Meat Distorted the Evidence

Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality. A series of studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found…

How Many Minutes of Life Does a Burger Cost?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and…

Chemotherapy Is Expensive—Is It Effective?

Most chemotherapy drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) without evidence that they benefit survival or…

How Much Do New Chemotherapy Drugs Extend Life?

If you put together all the new chemotherapy drugs approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is…