{"id":1047,"date":"2010-02-25T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/snake-oil-the-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements.html"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:38:41","slug":"snake-oil-the-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/snake-oil-the-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements.html","title":{"rendered":"Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This image is a &#8216;balloon race&#8217;. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supps. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. For example, there\u2019s strong evidence that Green Tea is good for cholesterol levels. But evidence for its anti-cancer effects is conflicting. In these cases, we give a supp another bubble.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This image is a &#8216;balloon race&#8217;. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supps. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/snake-oil-the-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}