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Tag: obesity

9/7/2018

5-Star Friday: Unexpected endings

2 6/27/2018

News stories parrot assumptions about ‘body positivity’ health risks — and ignore conflicting evidence

3/28/2018

Internal documents show Coke had profits in mind when it funded nutrition ‘science’

12 12/7/2017

How to communicate about obesity without promoting stigma

10/6/2017

5-Star Friday: Reports of the death of investigative journalism have been greatly exaggerated

14 5/19/2017

“Fat but fit”? Studies confuse, while advocates & journalists do little to clarify

2 7/21/2016

Will a few extra pounds save you or kill you? Science can’t tell us, yet news stories project certainty

1 9/14/2015

Dr. Richard Lehman: Why does having abnormal glucose tests cost the USA $245bn?

1 8/25/2015

The Cleveland Clinic dumps McDonald’s: important symbol of change or PR lip service?

2 4/10/2015

Some news goes overboard on overweight protecting against dementia

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With the discontinuation of @HealthNewsRevu, there's a genuine concern that well-written and researched "reality checks" in healthcare are not economically interesting. This should be disconcerting to anyone, and yet I'm only seeing more and more piling into "promising findings"

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Thanks for sharing this with all of us today, @garyschwitzer @HealthNewsRevu
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