John Ray

HRT 'raises risk of kidney stones by 20 per cent'This is juvenile rubbish. It is data dredging pure and simple. In a large correlation matrix, statistically significant effects will emerge by chance alone. And that's how this finding emerged unexpectedly. This time it was kidney stones. Next it will...
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US nutrition bureaucrats seek simplicity in new food pyramidHow about truth instead NOTHING leads to permanent weight loss outside surgery and lifespan differs little for all but the extremes of the weight range. Good to see below however that it is all just politicsWith most Americans overweight or...
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Those wicked fizzy drinks againFizzy drinks "pop", "soft drinks" are regularly attacked by the obesity warriors because they are allegedly very calorific. Though milk, which is also highly calorific, gets a pass, for some reason. The attack does not end there, however, there is a...
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The Governments Weight-Loss ProgramAmerica is quickly becoming the fattest nation in the world. Results from the 20072008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES indicate that about 34.2 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 years and over are overweight, 33.8 percent are obese and 5.7 perc...
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Three cups of tea a day 'can protect against heart attacks' I drink tea regularly so I could be inclined to hail the findings below. But the tiny difference quoted is incapable of supporting causal inferences. It's all just another sermon of the stupid old antioxidant religion Drinking just three cu...
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