What’s all this, then?
The book is supported by footnotes which are references or links to further reading. They work great in an e-book. You have to squint and type them in if you’re reading ODT (On Dead Trees), and if you’re listening to an audiobook, well, fugeddaboudit.
So why should paper readers and audio listeners be left out, I ask you? (The answer is that they shouldn’t.)
So here are the links from the book, on a handy web page, just so you can be smarter at parties. Oh, and gain a better understanding of the science of eating.
Some are scholarly papers, most are consumer-accessible. Play link roulette!
Footnotes
Introduction
1- I’m not counting the birds that set fire to grasslands on purpose.
2- Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow. "Father of 'Green Revolution' Dies" . The Wall Street Journal
Chapter 1: Of Fear and Fads
Why me?
(No footnotes)
Book Recommendations
2- Secrets From the Eating Lab
3- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Orthorexics
5- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the book used by the American Psychiatric Association to define mental disorders for diagnosis.
6- https://gastropod.com/weve-lost-diet-episode-2/
7- An Overview of Attitudes Toward Genetically Engineered Food
The Root of All Fears
8- DHMO.org
Chapter 2: All Food is Healthy
Ask the right questions
4- Resveratrol: Don’t Buy the Hype
5- Agrp neuron activity is required for alcohol-induced overeating
Natural, Schmatural
7- Maize
8- How “Organic” is a Marketing Concept
9- Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?
10- 99.99% Of Pesticides We Eat Are Produced By Plants Themselves
11- No Health Benefits from Organic Food
12- Nutritional quality of organic foods: a systematic review
13- Herbicides make sweet corn sweeter and boost crop’s beneficial mineral levels, study finds
14- Is Organic Food More Healthful?
15- USDA National Organic Program
17- Nitrate leaching from intensive organic farms to groundwater (PDF)
18- Carbon footprints and land use of conventional and organic diets in Germany
19- Farming Claims Almost Half Earth's Land, New Maps Show
20- Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change
21- The organic industry is a case study in rent-seeking.
22- Organic Marketing Report (PDF)
24- GMOs and the Revenge of Lysenko
25- We still Need Better Communication on GMOs
Sugar isn't Cocaine, and Bacon Won't Give You Cancer
26- Gary Taubes and the Case Against Sugar
27, 28- Does Sugar Make Kids Hyper? (This is referenced twice in the chapter.)
29- Clever Hans
31- Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit
32- “Eating addiction”, rather than “food addiction”, better captures addictive-like eating behavior
33- Communicating Risk and Certainty
34- WHO Report on Red and Processed Meat
35- Meat intake and mortality: a prospective study of over half a million people
36- Vegetarian diets, chronic diseases and longevity
38- https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dietary-associations-with-cardiovascular-and-diabetic-mortality-bacon-soda-and-too-few-nuts/
39- Nearly Half of US Deaths Can Be Prevented With Lifestyle Changes
40- Everything we eat causes cancer…sort of
41- Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review
Don't Fear the GMO
42- Viewpoint: Humans have been ‘genetically modifying’ food for thousands of years
43- Mutagenesis
44- Is it true there are no long term GMO safety studies?
45- FUD means Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
47- Gilles-Éric Séralini: Activist professor and face of anti-GMO industry
48- The Seralini GMO Study – Retraction and Response to Critics
49- Another Anti-GMO Paper Retracted
50- More bad science in the service of anti-GMO activism
52- Foregone benefits of important food crop improvements in Sub-Saharan Africa
53- Bt GMOs reduce pesticides, increase yields, and benefit farmers (including organic farmers)
55- Is Organic Really Better? 4 Food Myths Debunked By Science
56- The Environmentalist Case In Favor Of GMO Food
57- Farming Ideology Trumps Evidence
58- A Conversation with Rich(ard Roberts)
59- From GMO hater to biotechnology advocate: One person’s Facebook journey
Chapter 3: Mythelany
2- Skeptoid
3- These Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests on Fire (See, I told you so in the notes for the Introduction. And to think that you scoffed.)
4- Does exposure to aluminum cause Alzheimer’s disease?
5- What’s the Deal with Reactive (and Nonreactive) Cookware?
6- Cutting Boards and Food Safety
7- USDA: Cutting Boards and Food Safety
9- Pass the Salt (But Not That Pink Himalayan Stuff)
10- Pink Himalayan Sea Salt: An Update
11- The War on Salt
12- Getting a BANG out of Beans
13- The Food Lab: A New Way to Cook Pasta?
15- Milk and Health: The Evidence
16- Do lobsters feel pain when they’re boiled alive?
17- USDA Revises Cooking Temperatures for Pork
18- Ask the Skeptic: Reheating Meat [ NB: Currently a Wayback link ]
Chapter 4: Choosing What to Eat
Nutrition 101
1- Trans fat
3- The Skinny on Saturated Fat
5- Probiotics probably aren't making you well, and they could make you sicker
6- Probiotic use is a link between brain fogginess, severe bloating
7- The Benefits of Probiotics Might Not Be So Clear Cut
Eating for Active People
Can you believe it? No footnotes for this part. Just going to have to trust me.
Beware the Latest Study
9- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
If Your Diet Has a Name It's Probably Bogus
10- What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity’?
11- http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to-tradition/
14- Prevalence and Severity of Food Allergies Among US Adults
15- Keto Is the Dumbfuck Diet Du Jour, But That Won’t Last
16- The Natural Alternative? Part 1
17- The Keto Diet
Let’s Go to the Store
Another section with no footnotes. Not that you needed any here. Get shopping!
Chapter 5: How to Lose Weight Safely
Who should lose weight?
No footnotes here.
How Much Should You Weigh?
2- 2.2 billion people are overweight and sick, but we’re still measuring them by a terrible metric
Don’t diet.
6- I Lost 90 Pounds. Maintaining That Weight Loss Was Harder.
7- Lose It! (Note that this is not a blanket endorsement. It counts calories well, but sometimes promotes woo, like DNA-based diets. Sigh.)
Beware Bad Advice
A Nutritional BS Detector
1- Ayurveda: Ancient Superstition, Not Ancient Wisdom
2- The new religion: How the emphasis on 'clean eating' has created a moral hierarchy for food
3- How The Clean Eating Fad Is Taking A Toll On Young Women
4- “Clean Food” The Deeply Offensive Marketing Ploy
6- The Medical Medium’s Thyroid Pseudoscience
7- Skeptoid
9- Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites
10- Viewpoint: How the organic industry spreads ‘fake science’
12- TV Doctors Give Unreliable Recommendations
Water Woo
13- Down the Virtual Rabbit Hole: Kangan water®
14- Gold Water, Silver Water, Copper Water
15- “Raw water”: The latest dangerous “natural health” fad
16- Does ‘Raw Water’ Provide Probiotic Health Benefits?
17- H2O.con
The 30-Second Detox
For something that takes 30 seconds you want footnotes?
The Only Supplement You Need is a Chill Pill
18- Diets in a Time of Scurvy - Part 1
19- More Trouble for Antioxidants
20- A Call for Caution on Antioxidant Supplementation
21- Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
22- Vitamin D: To Screen or Not to Screen?
23- Routine Vitamin Supplementation Mostly Useless
24- Multivitamins and Vascular Disease
25- Is Cancer Caused by a Deficiency of ‘Vitamin B17’?
26- Liver Failure from Green Tea Extract
27- Green Tea: Panacea or Poison?
28- What is a dietary supplement?
29- Utah Senator Orrin Hatch: A pit bull in defense of the supplement industry
30- DSHEA: a travesty of a mockery of a sham
32- Fishy Fish Pills
33- An Increase in Dietary Supplement Exposures Reported to US Poison Control Centers
34- Increase In Supplement Poisonings
35- Dietary supplements and herbal medicine toxicities—when to anticipate them and how to manage them
36- Hundreds of Dietary Supplements Are Tainted with Prescription Drugs
38- FDA Warns About Homeopathic Teething Products
39- Prenatal Multivitamins and Iron: Not Evidence-Based
Don’t confuse food with medicine
This little section didn’t need any footnotes. Don’t you think?
Chapter 8: The Joy of Food
How to Eat
1- Artificial Sweeteners: Is Aspartame Safe?
2- Update on Low Calorie Sweeteners
3- Combating Excessive Eating: A Role for Four Evidence-Based Remedies
Helping Children Love Food
Children don’t read footnotes.
What's for dinner?
Not a footnote, but a handy link- America's Test Kitchen Online Cooking School
Relax and Enjoy Your Food
5- Hallberg et al. Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, October 2000