Reading Time: 3 minutes Pseudoscience and quackery love the food-is-medicine philosophy because it helps them sell their nutritional supplements, diet books and therapy sessions
Author: Dylan MacKay
I am a nutritional biochemist, specializing in human clinical trials and inter-individual variability. I focus on how phenotype and genotype modulate an individual's response to dietary interventions. I use stable isotopic tracers to characterize responses to nutritional interventions. I am interested in how lifestyle can impact chronic disease risk and whether lifestyle intervention strategies can be made more effective through personalization. I am a type 1 diabetic and this has led me to have a special interest in glucose metabolism and diabetes, both type 1 and type 2.
Three nutrition trends to stay away from
Reading Time: 3 minutes Skip the cleanses, alkaline diets and IV vitamin therapy; there’s no evidence they work and plenty of evidence they can be harmful
The diet shell game
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stick to the evidence when reporting on – and endorsing – food studies. We need real solutions to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, not book sales