One of the major pitfalls of nutrition is that anecdotes are often given equal footing with scientific evidence. Stories of how you can use diet to rid yourself of acne, gain more energy, or stop that persistent runny nose proliferate in the uncritical halls of the web where they can almost always find an eager audience. Unfortunately, […]
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Your Diet Has Plenty of Magnesium—Really!
You’ve heard the headlines, right? Your diet is low in magnesium! If you’re like most adults (45-85% of all men and 48-70% of all women), then you only get an estimated 352 milligrams of magnesium per day—even less (256 milligrams) if you’re a woman. Considering that the official RDAs for men and women are 400-420 and 310-320 […]
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My Promise to You
The state of science changes all the time. Usually, it advances in small steps. Occasionally, by greater bounds. Regardless of the pace of change, it goes without saying that some of the things we know now will have been dismissed completely or evolved in depth 50 years from now. Dave Sackett (one of the early […]
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