Tamar Haspel
@TamarHaspel
James Beard winning WaPo columnist, author of TO BOLDLY GROW, gentleman oyster farmer. General nuisance.
What are the relative impact of diet vs physical activity on the global obesity crisis? New paper out @pnas uses the DLW Database with 4000+ participants across 34 populations to investigate Obesity & Energy Expenditure Across the Economic Spectrum. Open access link below!🧵1/
How can we fix our food system and stop "eating the earth"? RSVP for this deep dive webinar July 30, hosted by @TheBTI with @MikeGrunwald @p_lehner and @jennysplitter: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
I love this @TamarHaspel piece that explains why Italians keep their weight in check -- with an answer that everyone can apply to their own lives, no matter where they live. (I still wish high-quality gelato was as accessible here, however.) washingtonpost.com/food/2025/07/0…
Then a special event at noon ET: I’m reuniting with my @ClimavoresPod co-host @TamarHaspel for a Sustain What webcast with @Revkin! You can watch here: youtube.com/live/8eV1VSg6L…
Incredible how nutrition myths normalized. 1) Protein hype largely just manosphere noise (most get enough already) 2) Sure, ban food dyes. But lots of science-free fearmongering on pt. Most they care about getting enough protein & avoiding food dyes yahoo.com/lifestyle/food…
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More evidence that the strong correlation between physical fitness and risk of death is heavily confounded by genetics and other factors. This is a tough one for the preventive health community (including me)!
Our Video department is looking for someone who is a journalist, experienced editor and videographer to work on two editorial programmes a week, featuring senior journalists from The Economist and prominent guests. The deadline to apply is June 20th econ.st/43MLPnV
Someone should do the spurious correlation with beef consumption - charts are very similar.
Of the songs that Spotify reckons will “take over the summer”, half are under three minutes. Our analysis of almost 1,200 number-one hits suggests brevity is not season-specific econ.st/3T3WMfJ Photo: Getty Images
And imported $6.8 billion wine-intelligence.com/blogs/wine-new…
Wine down, because it’s National Wine Day! In 2024, the U.S. exported $1.24 billion worth of wine to other countries. #WorldTradeMonth
Once again, Tamar is here to set the record straight. Or as straight as it can be given the conflicting evidence.
Seed oils! They're way more likely to be beneficial than harmful. BUT the evidence is meh and there is zero support for zealotry either way. Stop cherry-picking. Look at ALL the data. They just don't matter much. I gift you my incisive analysis. wapo.st/4mmy8EQ
Seed oils! They're way more likely to be beneficial than harmful. BUT the evidence is meh and there is zero support for zealotry either way. Stop cherry-picking. Look at ALL the data. They just don't matter much. I gift you my incisive analysis. wapo.st/4mmy8EQ
we still have shoebill storks and people who love them
The Shoebill Stork..
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Study financed by the beef industry finds ... Drumroll please! ... that plant protein is as good as meat for building muscle. news.illinois.edu/omnivorous-veg…
For anyone following the LMHR/keto brouhaha over the new study, I think Ethan is very clear and totally right about the implications.
This is a really important point. Nobody is saying come off the diet. I myself have been low-carb/keto since 2018. What most of us are advocating is that for those people who are on these diets and find benefit and also have these increases in LDLc/ApoB, do not assume that it is…
Yep. "Natural" = King of BS health halos. 👑 Why we assume ‘natural’ food is better, even when it’s not wapo.st/3R9AJUf by @TamarHaspel @AlanLevinovitz: "The appeal of natural foods is also our intuition, right or wrong, that we understand how those foods are created."
RFK Jr's ideas about food & health are often untethered from the evidence, but his spectacular wrongness is an object lesson. Many of us are wrong in less spectacular ways, but for the same reason. It's all about the natural. Gift link. wapo.st/3R9AJUf
