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Neil Barsky

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Writer - Death By Diabetes: America's Preventable Epidemic https://t.co/Bs6Gau2JBZ

NYC, Spain Katılım Nisan 2011
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Vital City
Vital City@VitalCityNYC·
Three years ago, Vital City launched as a small experiment: Could New Yorkers come together around calm, evidence-based ideas in a noisy, hyperpartisan moment? The answer was a resounding yes. Here’s what we achieved together just this year. 👇
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American Diabetes Society
American Diabetes Society@OfficialADSOrg·
Type 2 diabetes is not a chronic, progressive disease — it’s a reversible metabolic disorder rooted in chronically elevated insulin levels driven by excessive carbohydrate intake. #type2diabetes
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American Diabetes Society
American Diabetes Society@OfficialADSOrg·
Low-carb isn’t punishment. It’s peace. Food freedom is when you’re not ruled by cravings anymore.
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Rachael Bedard
Rachael Bedard@RBMD1982·
“What about the elephant in the room, Mr. Mamdani’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy? I believe high taxes on high earners are the price we pay for living in a democracy that allows individuals to earn millions while benefiting from a tax code that favors capital over labor.” My pal @nsbarsky speaking pragmatic truth to power in the NYT today! nytimes.com/2025/11/12/opi… via @NYTOpinion
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Vital City
Vital City@VitalCityNYC·
Mamdani believes in a robust public sector that does more things, and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for it. There’s a serious conversation to be had about whether this is a good idea. But it’s no threat to New York capitalism itself. We already have a really active public sector alongside a dynamic private economy: parks, public hospitals, public housing, pre-K, schools, public $ for private schools, more. High taxes, big budget. Public childcare and free buses are differences in degree, not in kind.
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Benjamin Bikman
Benjamin Bikman@BenBikmanPhD·
This is a great rebuttal to a silly paper. Nice work, Nick.
Nick Norwitz MD PhD@nicknorwitz

A paper was recently published titled, “Ketogenic Diets are Associated with Elevated Risk for All Cancers.” Grab your popcorn—scratch that, your pork rinds—because this study is so comically bad, it's more entertaining than alarming. Let’s dive in. 🚨Here’s the first red flag: their most ketogenic quintile consumed a diet that was 37% of calories from carbohydrates—amounting to 181 grams of carbs per day. Yes, their "most ketogenic" group was eating as many carbs as you'd find in 12 slices of bread. That fact alone disqualifies the paper's title claim —“Ketogenic Diets are Associated with Elevated Cancer Risk.” But for the sake of curiosity (or comedy?), let’s keep going. They used something called the Dietary Ketogenic Ratio (DKR), a rather obscure formula (more on that below) that assigns a score from 0 to 9 based on a diet’s potential to induce ketogenesis—with higher numbers indicating greater ketogenic potential. However, in their analysis, all effects became statistically non-significant above a DKR of 0.44—because 0.44 is barely scratching the surface of the scale. In other words, most of their supposed “ketogenic” range produced no significant findings. Even more absurd: using their method, a high-carb diet with 200 grams of carbs per day can yield DKR scores that are equivalent to medical 3:1 or 4:1 ratio (87–90% of calories from fat) with respect to the supposed cancer risk, as stated in the title. 😂That’s not just misleading—that’s “Turned you around 12 times, stuffed you in a barrel and sent it down Niagara falls.” 🍒And the cherry on top: they calculated the DKR using macronutrient data collected from a two-day retrospective food questionnaire. That’s right—participants recalled what they ate over two days, reported it, and then the authors through a non-standard formula which, again, showed mostly non-significant results. All of this in a population that, even in the lowest-carb group, was still consuming a loaf of bread’s worth of carbs per day. Thoughts? cc @janellison @bigfatsurprise @AKoutnik @BenBikmanPhD @lowcarbGP @davidludwigmd @Metabolic_Mind

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Neil Barsky@nsbarsky·
@StreamOnMax HI FRANK - CAN U PLS FOLLOW ME? WANT TO SEND U MESSAGE. THANK YOU!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick·
I want a future in which those who seek to exploit immigrants are the ones who are afraid of law enforcement, not the victims. We can build a fair and level playing field for American workers by passing a path to legal status — or we can crash the economy with mass deportations.
Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸@JudiciaryDems

Immigration economics expert: Congress has a choice. Instead of mass deportation, we can instead “crack down on exploitation, strengthen millions of families, and build American prosperity” by providing undocumented immigrants a way to fix their papers.

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Sal Albanese
Sal Albanese@SalAlbaneseNYC·
It’s hysterical @NYCCouncil & @NYCMayor touting as a major achievement building 80,000 homes over 15 years. Koch built 400,000 in a significantly shorter period.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders·
Last year, Coca-Cola spent $327 million on advertising in the U.S. while it raked in $9.5 billion in profits. Not one of their ads will tell you that a 20oz bottle of Coke contains more than 15 teaspoons of sugar. It’s time to take on the greed of the food & beverage industry.
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Virta Health
Virta Health@virtahealth·
@nsbarsky @nsbarsky 💯 Proper nutrition is THE building block to a healthy lifestyle and core to reversing diseases like diabetes and obesity. Any focus on putting nutrition at the forefront is a win. @samiinkinen
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