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Marion Nestle
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Marion Nestle's personal blog at foodpolitics.com covers health, politics and economics. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “HFCS makes rats fat? A counterpoint.”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- HFCS makes rats fat? A counterpoint.2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-03-25
- /wp-content/uploads/HFCS_Rats_10.pdf2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-13
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You can find the original paper at http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/HFCS_Rats_10.... . The statistics are a bit confusing to me, but it looks like they only find a significant difference for males over 8 weeks, not females over 7 months. The "significant" difference for males seems pretty small given that the rats started out weighing between 300 and 375 grams. And the conclusion doesn't mention sucros…
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on “High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)”Submitted HFCS makes rats fat? A counterpoint. as a story · 33 points
HN discussionAll those studies are as shady as the studies that used to promote cigarettes as healthy. There is enough evidence out there to the contrary, including recent studies : http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12... http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=a... The cu…
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on “We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert”Submitted What the Supreme Court's Nix on the Chevron doctrine means for food regulation as a story · 18 points
HN discussionIt isn't the American Medical Association which I'm referring to, but rather the American Heart Association. From the parent's source: > The DGAC used the 2013 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) report on lifestyle management to reduce CVD risk for its evaluation of saturated fat intake. The DGAC concurred with the AHA/ACC report that saturated fat intake exceeds current recommendati…
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on “How cancer cells fuel their growth”Submitted Not good news: The FDA is conducting fewer foreign inspections as a story · 15 points
HN discussionFor dinner, it says I should have quinoa, wild rice, and chickpeas. I think it would be more appetizing if it did its calculations on a recipe basis -- so you'd get a menu plan composed of recipes selected to meet the given requirements. Even though I have all eggs and dairy unchecked, it still tells me to eat 6 eggs for breakfast. I also take umbrage to the trend of confusing foods with macronutrients (spinach is n…
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on “Swole.me - The automatic diet planner”Submitted FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI tend to just pay attention roughly to what I eat, and not eat foods that are generally bad for me/empty calories. However on some days I'll consume twice the amount of "recommended daily calories" for an adult my size. Yet I remain an 140lb adult male. There are no hard/fast rules for calorie consumption, and I don't believe a calorie counter will help. In-fact, it is the precise quantification of food that leads…
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on “Living the Fitbit life”Submitted USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPlease see section 4.5 of this paper http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/HFCS_Rats_10....
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on “Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets”Submitted The first lawsuit against ultra-processed foods as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/HFCS_Rats_10.... But there's this cool site where you can do all this research on our own, it's called google.com (or scholar.google.com).
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on “Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets”Submitted Is the Food Industry in Trouble? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm now reading "The Big Fat Surprise" ( http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Fat-Surprise-Healthy/dp/145162... ). I have not read the whole book yet but if what is written in it is truth then there is no science I am expecting in lipid hypothesis and that's is very disappointing. I will double check some facts myself after reading this book but it is interesting. 1-star comments in am…
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on “Brazil's billion-dollar gym experiment”Submitted Greenpeace study finds microplastics in Gerber baby food pouches [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Also, patronizing. And quite possibly mistaken. Perhaps I was unclear. It was my intention to point out two things. First, that the base ingredient grains we eat now are a great deal different from what was regularly consumed in 1914. Second that our sources of grains are more likely to be prepackaged foods containing ingredients that were very uncommon in 1914. This was done as a means of pointing out a significa…
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on “Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914.”Submitted Eating your veggies isn't easy: they cost more and there aren't enough of them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/american_heart_... http://www.foodpolitics.com/2011/02/american-heart-associati... They also lobby against government policies that would eliminate meat from school lunches, even though they would vastly reduce the incidence of heart disease in the U.S.
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on “Google Aims a $50M Moonshot at Curing Heart Disease”Submitted The proposed destruction of the USDA: it's deja vu all over again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot quite. I'm a lobbyist in the health care industry, and policy related to alcohol and tobacco are designed to meet a very different policy goal from over the counter medications. The latter is a can of worms beyond the scope of this but let's narrow to alcohol and tobacco. First, alcohol is not as highly regulated as you might think. The contents of the bottle are not strongly regulated, and producers are actuall…
Comment linking /2010/11/nutrition-labeling-of-wine-beer-and-spirits-a-regulatory-morass/
on “Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study”Submitted Can Robert F. Kennedy, Jr influence the Dietary Guidelines? Most definitely, yes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe princeton study is very poor science. Here's a good summary of why: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/hfcs-makes-rats-fat/ And here's a longer article about why at Ars: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/does-high-fructo...
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on “The bitter truth about fructose alarmism”Submitted Should we be eating lettuce? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTake a look at http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/hfcs-makes-rats-fat/ It seems that Princeton's press release greatly overstated the results of the study. It also seems that there are some valid questions about the methodology of the study.
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on “Princeton researchers find that HFCS prompts considerably more weight gain”Submitted Farmers get short-changed in our current food system as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> That's an assertion of your personal view, and not at all objective. Why is it always the responsibility, throughout history, of a vocal minority to convince others that violence against a group is wrong? No, empathy isn't my personal view, it is shared by any rational and sane person, who will agree animals have an inherent right to be free of pain and suffering. Or do you dare assert humans have an exclusive mon…
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on “The Nutrition Gap: Are Doctors Ready to Think Outside the Pillbox?”Submitted What's Happening to Beyond Meat? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMarion Nestle of the Politics of Food, wrote about this study early this week ( http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/06/does-where-calories-come... ) She's skeptical. Basically, she says you cannot really draw any reliable conclusions becuase of the short, highly controlled conditions of the study.
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on “It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds”Submitted The push for more protein (a euphemism for meat): good, bad, indifferent? as a story · 2 points
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