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Life Lessons from the Recently Departed?

Life Lessons from the Recently Departed?

A short discourse on the limits of evidence

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Gary Taubes
Jun 04, 2024
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Writing about nutrition and chronic disease for a living comes with an occupational hazard that might be described as unseemly. Since the job entails obsessing about the influence of diet on health, when a prominent advocate of a particular dietary approach makes the news with a chronic illness or passes away – diet-book doctor, celebrity, athlete, or i…

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