Top five press articles – 2018

What prominent news coverage did low-carb diets receive in 2018? Plenty. In addition to the well-placed op-eds we covered separately, news organizations and institutes had top writers covering various aspects of nutrition last year.
Here are our five picks for terrific coverage:
- Anahad O’Connor for The New York Times:
How a low-carb diet might aid people with type 1 diabetes - Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee for The New York Times:
It’s time to study whether eating particular diets can help heal us - Dr. Georgia Ede for Psychology Today:
Obesity: Stop shaming, start understanding - Anahad O’Connor for The New York Times:
When we eat, or don’t eat, may be critical for health - Terence Kealey for The Cato Institute:
Why does the federal government issue damaging dietary guidelines? Lessons from Thomas Jefferson to today
- Jane Brody in The New York Times:
Confused by nutrition research? Sloppy science may be to blame - James Hamblin in The Atlantic:
A credibility crisis in food science