May 30, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The American Journal of Medicine published an article this week showing the utter failure of 30 years' efforts to improve the healthfulness of Americans' lifestyle habits. The findings suggest policy-makers need to be much humbler and likely less strident in their...
May 23, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Many government public health agencies recommend universal salt reduction. Unfortunate. Unjustified. But true. In the past couple weeks, however, nutri-fascists have been spewing forth wild and scary allegations about the "toxic" level of dietary salt. Their fact-free rants may have...
May 15, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Headlines across the country, and the world, alerting the public that the DASH Diet reduces the rate of heart failure. As champions of the DASH Diet for the past dozen years, we feel vindication. It was distressing, therefore, to read...
May 9, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Dietitians are in consensus: diets are important. Individual nutrients, specific foods or single meals need to be considered as part of a person's dietary pattern before they rise to the level of health significance. For years, it's been annoying to...
May 5, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Fearmongering prevails. Fearing their diets may mean risk of chronic disease, consumers seek to lower their risks by using "healthy" foods, whose unhealthy ingredients are reduced or eliminated. But is seems there is no escape: health conscious, label-reading food purchasers...
