“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon As noted in the recent column, The MAHA Report Card, recent …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: UPFs and The Misleading Narrative Of “Healthy” Ultraprocessed Foods
“It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V The new guidelines often, if not precisely, speak about “highly …
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Study Spotlight with Chef Dr. Mike: Why Better Labels Still Won’t Fix What’s Broken in Nutrition
Over the past year, initiatives like MAHA and renewed discussions around the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have signaled something important: a growing recognition that our dominant approach to food and …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: UPFs and Colon Cancer
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius. Over the last several decades, chronic diseases like Type II …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: UPFs & MS
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.” — Walker Percy Multiple sclerosis is a “chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, …
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The Caloric Myth:Beyond Thermodynamics: Why Not All Calories — or Zero Calories — Are Created Equal
Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: “In my opinion, it has never been proven that food even has calories. When I bite into a hamburger, I see pickle and …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: UPFs Matter
“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” ―Ayn Rand Recently, in both the UK and the US, the latest dietary guidelines opted not to …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Pregnant Pause ― UPFs, Type 2 Diabetes, and Pregnancy
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice The auguries of the Bard may indeed be true, and the sins of …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: The Sweet Lies of Sugar Substitutes
“Problem is, while the lie may be sweet as it falls from your lips, the feeling in your gut is always putridly sour. And almost always bang-on.” — Caz Frear, …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: The Matrix — Clues to UPFs
“What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply …

