by | Dec 21, 2021 | Nutrition
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods. Whenever I’m asked at a lecture whether a specific food is healthy or not, my reply is: “Compared to what?” For example, are...
by | Dec 16, 2021 | Nutrition
Today is the start of our annual end-of-year fundraising drive. More than half of our entire annual operating budget is raised around these final few weeks of the year, and our goal is to raise $350,000. We count on your giving-season generosity to make a...
by | Dec 14, 2021 | Nutrition
Fact boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format. When it comes to cancer screening, doctors “have too often ignored” the fact that women may place different weights on various pros and cons, so they have just “focused on persuading rather...
by | Dec 9, 2021 | Nutrition
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients? “In these mammography wars, rational thinking can be easily lost.” Mammograms are big business, bringing in about seven billion dollars a year, but it would be a bit too...
by | Dec 7, 2021 | Nutrition
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years. With mammograms, though, breast cancer may only grow and spread for…21.4 years. Critics of breast cancer screening claim that, on a population...
by | Dec 2, 2021 | Nutrition
After reading this, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias. While running for president of the United States, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani ran a campaign ad contrasting his 82 percent chance of...
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