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Artificial Opinions 15 Jul 2013 | 04:15 pm
Note: A shorter version of this post appears on Weighty Matters. An opinion article in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism by Dr. Susan Swithers about artificial sweeteners made for sc...
What’s Bleach Doing in My Fruit? 29 May 2013 | 10:06 pm
This article was originally published on Food Product Design. Last month, I came across a blog post at Prevention magazine titled “What’s Anti-Freeze Doing in Fast Food?”, based on a blog post titled ...
Dr. Oz’s not-so-sweet artificial sweetener recommendations 25 May 2013 | 12:30 am
Dr. Oz writes today that artificial sweeteners are “linked to diabetes and some forms of cancers – including cancers of the colon, kidney, and esophagus.” The study he links is by Gallus and colleague...
Lazy Scholar Chrome Extension 22 May 2013 | 09:02 pm
I got tired of highlight title-> ctrl+c -> open Google Scholar -> ctrl+p -> search every time I want to check if Google Scholar has indexed the full text of a scientific abstract that interests me. So...
Experimental Biology tweets #EB2013 6 May 2013 | 04:05 am
As I’ve done for another conference, I collected tweets for this year’s Experimental Biology conference with a Python script that I wrote and played around with them in R. I could not attend but it wa...
Naturopathic distraction 30 Apr 2013 | 12:54 am
This morning I saw a press release that said “Treatment by naturopathic doctors shows reduction in cardiovascular risk factors” based on a Canadian study. The skeptical bells went off in my head as I ...
When gadgets go beyond the data: HAPIfork 14 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
A vibrating fork called the “HAPIfork” got a lot of buzz (sorry) last week with promises to help you lose weight, enhance digestion, and improve overall feeling by letting you know when you are eating...
2012: A year of nutrition according to twitter 29 Dec 2012 | 11:29 pm
In the past I’ve done a favorites list at the end of each year, but I’ve been enjoying using Python to download tweets, so I decided to try something new. I downloaded the last year’s worth of tweets ...
An analysis of Prop37 (GMO) twitter activism 21 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
The election this November had an important topic on California ballots: Proposition 37, which would require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients. It ended up failing by j...
Analysis of #FNCE tweets 16 Oct 2012 | 06:00 pm
The annual Academy of Nutrition’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) is a huge conference with an estimated 10,000+ in attendance, and there were many people people tweeting about it under the ...
