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Barry Groves
Personal blog · second-opinions.co.ukhealthscience
Barry Groves writes Second Opinions, a personal blog at second-opinions.co.uk about health and science. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2008, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for articles questioning mainstream diet and health advice, covering topics such as diesel exhaust and lung cancer, vegetable intake, heart disease and low-carbohydrate eating.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
UK based website of researcher and author, Barry Groves, offering online nutritional information, and exposing dietary and medical misinformation.
What Hacker News says?
Always a bit of a sucker for conspiracies and woo, reading this left a long term impression on me: " Are Diesels More Dangerous than Cigarettes as a Cause of Lung Cancer? " - http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/diesel_lung_cancer.html
Comment linking /diesel_lung_cancer.html
on “Smog in our brains”This trumps absolutely anything else you can do: avoid starch and sugar. Eat only meat/fish, vegetables, and fruit. Simply don't eat sugary drinks, cereal, oatmeal, rice, potatoes, bread and so forth. This way everything you eat is nutrient packed. Eggs and dairy are the best foods I know of. I normally eat four eggs a day (scrambled in lots of butter) and have a large glass of half and half, or sometimes I even dri…
Comment linking /latest_articles.html
on “Ask HN: How do you stay (somewhat) healthy?”Sorry I don't have time to find all my links as I am at work on my lunchbreak but here are a few. Weight Loss As the Paleo diet is by nature pretty low-carbohydrate: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708681 Longevity: Cancer Patterns in Inuits - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760245 This William Lands paper - http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/83/6/S1483.pdf Medical Establishment: Good Calories, Bad Cal…
Comment linking /cholesterol_myth_1.html
on “ How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days) ”http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/chd_decline.html
Comment linking /chd_decline.html
on “The Longevity Experiment”Regarding the environmental impact and sustainability: http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html... Here's another take: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#link1 One missing piece regarding the idea of sustainability of ruminant farming versus grain farming is that the former tends to rejuvenate the soil, and can be performed in areas unsuitable for crop growth. The latter, on the ot…
Comment linking /vegetarian.html
on “I Hacked My Diet with Science”The presumption that people need to eat a lot of vegetables is perhaps flawed: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html Population studies haven't really shown a clear benefit from eating a lot of vegetables.
Comment linking /why-eat-5-portions-1.html
on “Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries”
