Posts Tagged ‘evidence quality’

If Food Is Medicine, Maybe Olive Oil Shots Are a Good Idea?

December 4, 2025 — We kid you not. Olive oil shots are a hot thing on social media and in the milieu of lifestyle health influencers. Writing in Glamour, Catharine Malzahn declares “I tried olive oil shots for a week – and the effects were immediate.” If you read carefully, though, it seems that the immediate effect was on […]

Super Mega High Quality Data on Intermittent Fasting?

December 20, 2021 — We found plenty of buzz words in this press release: mega-analysis, intermittent fasting, high-quality evidence. Who knew that “mega-analysis” was even a real thing? Well it is, but the use of it here to describe an umbrella review of meta-analyses deviates from the most common usage. Nonetheless, it sounds impressive. Setting all that buzz aside, […]