

The Best Diet Writing 2018
Welcome to the second annual "2018 Best Diet Writing" Anthology [AKA blog post with embedded hyperlinks]. Nearly every week, I send an email with links to recent stories, podcasts, articles, lectures, etc. titled This Week in Nutrition. While anything food related is fair game, it tends to include topics that have a direct relationship on how the ways that we eat impact health and wellness- also known as "nutrition" or, more controversially, "diet." From the pool of stories f


Artificial Sweeteners: Agents of Death or Harmless Scapegoats?
Do artificial sweeteners cause weight gain? One epidemiologist feels that diet sodas (and other artificial sweetener containing foods) lead