CHILDHOOD OBESITY IS CAUSED BY POOR PARENTING
by Alex Boersma
Make no mistake. This is a rant. If the heading above offends you, I suggest you stop reading now. It ain’t gonna get any better! But if you are genuinely concerned about your child’s weight, I suggest you tough it out. You can and should be the one to save your child from the lifelong affects of battling with weight. If you’re not going to do it, who will? Read the rest of this entry »
About 10 months ago I wrote an article entitled The China Study – How Not to do Science. I wrote it with the express intention of having a resource to which I could direct people who questioned me about the value of Colin Campbell’s ode to veganism. Unfortunately, my design to make things easier on myself hasn’t worked out quite the way I had expected. Instead of having to explain myself less, I find myself continually entangled in lengthy disourses supporting my position. It seems I have decidedly underestimated the emotional and intellectual investment most people have already made in Campbell’s hyperbole by the time they ask me about the book. Either that or I’m just wrong about all this! Read the rest of this entry »
by Alex Boersma
“Red-meat consumption linked to increased stroke risk“
December 30, 2010 | Medscape
“Eating lots of red meat ups women’s stroke risk
Dr. Oz website headline
“Eating Lots of Red Meat Increases Women’s Stroke Risk“
Foxnews.com
“Alex, you told me it was OK to eat red meat! Now look what you’ve done! I think I’m having a stroke!”
Just kidding, actually. Most of the friends and clients who I give nutritional advice to are a little more media savvy than those for whom these kinds of headlines are designed. Besides, they rarely follow my “crazy” advice anyway. Still, it gets under my craw. I can’t figure out who’s worse; the journalists who are spreading this nonsense or the scientists who are providing it. Read the rest of this entry »
written by Alex Boersma
IS THIS REALLY THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING?
Sometimes people go too far. I always say that as long as what you are doing doesn’t hurt anybody else, go ahead and fill your boots. And in general, I’ll concede that vegetarians are a harmless lot, if perhaps a little misguided. But when they try to augment their mundane agenda with unfounded scientific rhetoric and then force it on innocent schoolchildren, my blood pressure goes up! Read the rest of this entry »
