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After some twitter and personal conversations of late, I thought I'd make a post, that I'll continually update, on resources that I use to stay up to date on what's happening in the many worlds I attempt to follow (food, nutrition, medicine, public health, agriculture, research). I don't want these recommendations to be a pure endorsement, and I would encourage you to look skeptically at all resources. These are all based on my opinions/biases, and not through the direct influence of anybody. I will take suggestions though if you have any and check them out and add them if I like them! I'm pretty new to the podcast world and these are just a few of the ones I've perused.

Reference Textbooks:
Biochemical, Physiological, and Molecular Aspects of Human Nutrition
Present Knowledge in Nutrition
Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology

Facebook Groups*:
Food and Farm Discussion Lab
Nutrition Sciences Research (shameless plug because I started this)

*many of these groups contain a wealth of information and opinion/references in the comments, I'd highly suggest using the search function for terms. Threads in groups like FAFDL tend to have 'dedicated posts' to certain topics that are a wealth of information.

Podcasts: 
Gastropod (food science/nutrition)
Rationally Speaking (skepticism)
QuackCast (medicine/skepticism)
Talk Nerdy (science/skepticism)
We Do Science! The Guru Performance Podcast (nutrition/sports science)
Sigma Nutrition Radio (nutrition)
Real Nutrition Radio (nutrition)
Freakonomics Radio (econ/some food and nutrition)
Signal (medicine/policy)
Lipid Luminations (lipids)
Sound Bites with Melissa Joy Dobbins (nutrition/dietetics)
Evil Sugar Radio (nutrition/health)
Talking Biotech (biotechnology)
The Prism Podcast (medicine/skepticism)
The Skeptics Guide (skepticism/medicine)

Apps:

Youtube*:

*I keep a running playlist of videos that I think are relevant to Nutrition and Metabolism here. 

Blogs*:
Alan Arragon Research Review (nutrition/sports sci)
Chemicals In My food (nutrition/food science)
Chew The Facts (nutrition/dietetics)
Dienekes (anthropology)
Dr Sharma (nutrition/obesity)
Evolving Health (nutrition)
Examine.com (nutrition/health)
Food Politics (nutrition/policy)
Gibney On Food (Nutrition)
Health News Review (health/medicine)
Imperial Mitochondriacs (mitochondria)
Human Nutrition and dietetics (nutrition/dietetics)
Keith Kloor (science/society)
NutSci (nutrition)
Neurologica (skepticism/health)
Nutrition As I Know It (nutrition/skepticism)
Risk Science (risk/statistics)
SCAN DPG blog (nutrition/sports/cvd)
Science Meets Food (food science)
Science Based Medicine (medicine/health/skepticism)
Science Based Pharmacy (medicine/health/skepticism)
Science and Food (food science)
Sense about Statistics (statistics/society/health)
Systems and Signals (basic science)
CarbSane (nutrition)
The Foodie Farmer (nutrition/agriculture)
The Mermaid's Tale (anthropology/biology)
The Vegan RD (nutrition/veg*nism)
Unearthed (food/ag)
US Food Policy (policy/nutrition/ag)
USDA Blog (food/ag)
Weighty Matters (nutrition/obesity/policy)
Variable Genome (nutrition/genomics)
Whole Health Source (nutrition)

*I use Google Blogger's Reading List to keep up with these.

















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