April 24, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Basil S. Hetzel, AC, MD, FRCP, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, Australia and the first/founding Executive Director of International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), has been honored to receive the 2009 Pollin...
April 18, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Elsewhere we cover the first rigorous examination of possible causal links between diet and heart disease. The study appeared in the April 13 edition of the American Medical Association's Annals of Internal Medicine. Its authors are with McMaster University in...
April 13, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Mort Satin, Director of Technical and Regulatory Affairs at the Salt Institute addressed the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium on March 30 at their 2nd Information-Gathering Workshop. He cautioned the Committee to use great caution and to read...
April 11, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Will President Obama's actions match his lofty rhetoric? He has charted an ambitious course. He is pursuing nuclear disarmament while North Korea launches ICBM missles. He's ended the "War on Terror" and apparently extending U.S. civil rights to law-breakers like the Somalian...
April 8, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Ultimately, every paradigm is founded on faith. Faith in the process for some. Faith in the evidence, for others. Some systems survive, sustained by their evident logic and internal consistency. Adherents adopt a near-religious protective shield to deny data inconsistent...
April 4, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The American Public Health Association has been among those we've contested when they abandoned an outcomes- and evidence-based approach to public health nutrition. So it seems fair to compliment APHA when it gets it right. This week, APHA released its...
April 4, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The American Dietetic Association has reaffirmed its support for "functional foods," issuing this statement this week: All foods are functional at some physiological level, but it is the position of the American Dietetic Association that functional foods that include whole...
April 1, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
This is one of those blockbuster stories that is most accurately recounted by quoting the principles' well-considered news release, which follows. A month ago, K+S denied rumors it was in pursuit of US-based Compass Minerals (Compass denied the rumors as well)....
