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Adele Hite of Healthy Nation Coalition: Awesome Insights about Diet and Health

Today Caloriegate brings you a fantastic interview with the ever insightful Adele Hite, a MPH/RD candidate at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Adele serves as Executive Director of Healthy Nation Coalition, a group that’s striving to bring positive … Continue reading

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Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution Is Getting Routed. How Do We Fight Back?

It’s been 40 years since the late, great Robert Atkins pulished his famous treatise on the near magical efficacy of low carbohydrate diets. Dr. Atkins foresaw a glorious revolution based on his low carb approach. If only enough people understood … Continue reading

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Is the Obesity Epidemic Unstoppable?

The obesity epidemic ravages our society to the tune of trillions of dollars of every year, if you count up all its indirect costs and the indirect costs of those indirect costs. The trillion dollar question is: can we turn … Continue reading

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Whom to Trust?? Dealing with the Terrifying Possibility that Most Health “Experts” are Boneheaded Nincompoops.

The philosophical implications of Caloriegate should chill any thinking person to the bone. If, indeed, Caloriegate is “true,” then logic suggests it is possibly one of the biggest f**kups in the history of institutional science, if not the biggest f**kup … Continue reading

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