Nutrition

Seed oils: how a panic over cooking fats is lubricating the alt-right pipeline

The seed oils fear may look like just another nutritional panic, but it plays into an ideological drive towards 'traditional' alt-right ideals

Madmonq, or how not even video gamers are safe from the nutritional supplement industry

As Esports becomes big business, wellness industry companies like Madmonq want in on the act, claiming to provide optimal nutrition for the pro video gamer

The real-world harm of nutritional misinformation

Fad diets and dubious claims about nutrition have always been popular, but with social media, avoiding bad food advice seems harder than ever

False diagnoses like ‘adrenal fatigue’ offer us simplistic solutions to our stressful lives

According to wellness influencers, so many of our symptoms are caused by adrenal fatigue - a false diagnosis, that stops us questioning the real stresses in our lives

Is the ultra-processed food fear simply the next big nutritional moral panic?

Headline after headline warns about the supposed dangers of ultra-processed foods, but evidence that processing food causes poor health outcomes is lacking

Gillian Anderson misses the “G Spot” with her range of wellness drinks and health claims

The marketing for G Spot - the new range of wellness drinks from Gillian Anderson - goes beyond cheeky into outright misleading

Not right about nitrites? Mouse study provokes media scaremongering over cured meat

Headlines warn of the carcinogenic chemicals in school meals, but before we ban smoked sausages and nitrites, we'll need to see some better evidence

Is it time to stop using Body Mass Index as a diagnostic tool?

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is still widely employed as a health indicator, even though its usefulness is extremely limited, and demographically inaccurate
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