nutrition

Paul Whiteley: The Gut-Brain Axis and Schizophrenia

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Paul Whiteley, who blogs at Questioning Answers (mostly on autism research), posted this intriguing research summary from Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry on the relationship between the “gut-brain axis” and schizophrenia, which is not a new avenue of research, but is nonetheless still considered a fringe notion in the mainstream schizophrenia research. It only … Read more

Kiera Butler – I Went to the Nutritionists' Annual Confab – It Was Catered by McDonald's (via Mother Jones)

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Driving home from work last night, I heard Kiera Butler, Senior Editor at Mother Jones, on NPR’s All Things Considered, discussing her recent article about her visit to the annual conference of the California Dietetic Association (CDA). What she found is that the dieticians and nutritionists are in bed with the purveyors of the crap … Read more