Adding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology. In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu…
Read more Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire | NutritionFacts.orgSham surgery trials have shown that some of our most popular surgeries are themselves shams. Intragastric balloons “arrived with much fanfare in the 1980s,” since they could be…
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Read more IBD and Cannabis | NutritionFacts.orgWhy is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world? “There is now overwhelming…
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