Tag Archives: Junk

Black and Hispanic youth are targeted with junk food ads, research shows

Junk food comprised 86% of ad spending on black-targeted programming and 82% of spending on Spanish-language television in 2017, according to the study released Tuesday. “These companies are not just targeting black and Hispanic kids with their advertising, but they’re targeting them with the worst products,” said lead author Jennifer Harris of University of Connecticut’s… Read More »

Male Doctors, Female Consultants, and Clinical Trials Mess with My Space Junk (A Nod to Andrew Marvell)

I had an interesting…no let’s call it revealing…a revealing experience a few years ago and again a few months ago about two weeks after my wife Dianne and I returned from Spain. Let us now splice baby, splice. Most of us are aware that fitness, and the visual allure of something resembling perfection, morphed into… Read More »

Is Nutrition Science Mostly Junk?

One day, coffee causes cancer; the next, it cures cancer. One day, wine is good for you; the next it kills you. Given its self-contradictory wishy-washiness, can nutrition science be trusted? Not at all, say Edward Archer and his co-authors, in a new paper published in Frontiers in Nutrition. They believe nutrition research is so… Read More »