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Anthony Colpo
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Anthony Colpo's personal blog at anthonycolpo.com covers health and science. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Anthony Colpo's posts on nutrition, sugar, grains and vaccines are linked as rebuttals to Robert Lustig's sugar claims and as sourced reviews of the research, especially his whole-grain and sugar essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-truth-about-robert-lustigs-anti-sugar-claims/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-07
- /the-whole-grain-scam/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-20
- /?p=8522 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Article below has more than 50 references that describe the argument well. http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-tr... You can check the sources yourself too. Although, I believe Lustig changed the narrative and is currently promoting diets rich in starch (which means high volume - low calories) and most of his studies produce a caloric deficit (while he denies it despite the fact that less calor…
Comment linking /sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-truth-about-robert-lustigs-anti-sugar-claims/
on “Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago”I guess it's possible you don't actually know the difference, but what you linked isn't a research paper or study; it's a news article! And it's factually incorrect. It cites the Bangladesh RCT, which I am well aware of already. The trial results showed little to no statistically significant benefit to masking: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360320982_The_Bangl... "A very large trial, whose results were pu…
Comment linking /the-bangladesh-mask-study-is-back-and-it-shows-just-how-far-science-has-fallen/
on “Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis”Definitely. Lustig made numerous claims in his Bitter Truth talk that were just incorrect. Here are articles that are unbalanced but on the other end of spectrum (pro sugar). http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-1-is-sugar-real... http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-tr... It's interesting that in the USA the calorie consumption rose from 80s to 00s from 3100 to 3600. In the UK and Austr…
Comment linking /sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-truth-about-robert-lustigs-anti-sugar-claims/
on “The Sugar Conspiracy”Thanks to pyridoxine glucoside, B6 from cereal grain products is absorbed with far less efficiency than that from animal foods Comparative vitamin B-6 bioavailability from tuna, whole wheat bread and peanut butter. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6655507 the high phytate content of whole grains binds to minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, and zinc in the gastrointestinal tract, significantly reducing their…
Comment linking /the-whole-grain-scam/
on “Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully”For another perspective on this, see: http://anthonycolpo.com/stephan-guyenet-debunks-gary-taubes/
Comment linking /stephan-guyenet-debunks-gary-taubes/
on “After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight”read http://anthonycolpo.com/the-whole-grain-scam/ it's very thoroughly researched and sourced
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on “Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t”It's destroying our planet and causing untold, horrific amounts suffering to animals just because people get a kick out of chewing on other beings. You may be interested in this article: http://anthonycolpo.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-... Its arguments, in short, are: Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: –at least 25 times more sentient animals being…
Comment linking /ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-more-animal-blood-on-your-hands/
on “The case for eating steak and cream”These are factually incorrect, as has been proven: http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-1-is-sugar-real... http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-tr...
Comment linking /sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-truth-about-robert-lustigs-anti-sugar-claims/
on “World's Obese Population Hits 641M”Here's the best summary on the subject that I've found so far: http://anthonycolpo.com/?p=852 That summary is pretty horrible. Maybe you were testifying to the state of the literature, but it read like two children arguing. Both kind of referring to literature, but little really putting together coherent arguments. Based on this, I think I'll eat what tastes good. :-)
Comment linking /?p=852
on “Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated”there is nothing wrong with unprocessed grains/legumes if eaten in moderation It probably depends on one's definition of "nothing wrong". The fact that grains, whole or not, are packed with antinutrients like gluten, phytic acid or lectins is well-known. Here's the best summary on the subject that I've found so far: http://anthonycolpo.com/?p=852 Edit: lectins
Comment linking /?p=852
on “Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated”Ok found something https://anthonycolpo.com/the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna... It says, among other things.. >Using reasoning that could only make sense to a government bureaucrat or drug company-sponsored researcher, it was decided no Phase 2 trials were necessary for a drug that had just been shown to cause local and systemic side effects in the vast majority of healthy subjects who took it.
Comment linking /the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
on “Moderna receives fast track designation for RSV mRNA vaccine”Ok found something https://anthonycolpo.com/the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna... It says, among other things.. >Using reasoning that could only make sense to a government bureaucrat or drug company-sponsored researcher, it was decided no Phase 2 trials were necessary for a drug that had just been shown to cause local and systemic side effects in the vast majority of healthy subjects who took it.
Comment linking /the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
on “Moderna: Covid vaccine booster produced ‘robust’ immune response against delta”Thanks for the answer, but sadly it is not very convincing >mRNA tech was for a long time believed to be non-essential Please correct me if I am wrong, but this is is hard to believe. The mRNA tech provide obvious advantages in terms of production and quality control of the vaccines and reduced overall cost, because you no longer have to maintain this library of attenuated viruses.. Also you say >advantages of mRNA…
Comment linking /the-disturbing-truth-about-moderna-and-its-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-part-1/
on “Moderna: Covid vaccine booster produced ‘robust’ immune response against delta”So I was asking around how mRNA vaccines got approved after being blocked in approval process for so long, and a little earlier came across this https://anthonycolpo.com/the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna...
Comment linking /the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
on “Moderna Recommends Covid-19 Vaccine Booster to Protect Against New Variants”Lustvig is a crackpot. https://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-t... His understanding of what happens to fructose in the liver is fundamentally incorrect.
Comment linking /sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-truth-about-robert-lustigs-anti-sugar-claims/
on “When did people stop being drunk all the time?”