The impact of GMO corn: a meta-analysis of over 21 years of research. The results support the cultivation of GE maize, mainly due to enhanced grain quality and reduction of human exposure to mycotoxins.... .nature.com/articles/s4159…

The magic of submitting a paper for peer review. Watch the crazy fireworks.

Size doesn't matter..... well, at least that is what this article says. I find short, terse reviews with no specific criticism less helpful than long, explanatory reviews that point out every single flaw. publons.com/blog/its-not-t…

Frank Hu, one of the intellectual giants of epidemiology as it relates to nutrition and disease, weighs in on diet and cardiovascular disease. Good news, is his conclusions were the same ones we made in our review in Trends in cardiovascular medicine :) cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Observations from the desk of a statistics editor: do not use fancy models to fish for associations when the most simple analysis tells the best story. We know when you are fishing versus when you are actually looking at the data the way the study was designed.

Owning and running a service based business has been more illuminating in terms of showing me human behavior than anything else I have ever done...

3rd installment in an ongoing article series on ketogenic diet research. In this article, we discuss effects on hunger. Kudos to Adam Tzur for heading the project, as well all the reviewers involved. Enjoy the read! sci-fit.net/ketogenic-diet…

Another study showing that a high fat diet reduces exercise economy physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

"we believe that the real enemies in modern nutrition are hyperbole and oversimplification. The fight against obesity need not rely on artificially sweetened renderings of the past."

T NATION by Biotest great article by Brad Dieter on T-Nation.

Many diets can work, including low-fat approaches: care.diabetesjournals.org/content/41/4/6…

White matter microstructural deterioration occurs in patients with relapsing-remitting #MultipleSclerosis despite ‘no evidence of disease activity’, arguing for DTI for better monitoring of the disease process. jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

Is there a body set point? If so, how mutable is it? #nutrition sciencedrivennutrition.com/set-point-theo…

The NIH receives an 8.3% increase to $37 billion. That is well above the increase proposed by either the House of Representatives or the Senate in their versions of the spending bills, and a blunt rejection of the 22% cut proposed by the White House. sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/u…

This week's list of Stuff To Read While You're Pretending To Work - tonygentilcore.com/2018/03/stuff-…

This is a great episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. Gardner has a real knack for explaining concepts in the simplest way possible. x.com/NutritionDanny…

Is Exercise Killing You? - mailchi.mp/81b5298131fa/i…

Micheal D'Alessandro Read this too if you can access the full paper by Brad Dieter - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28161146