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Erik Arnesen

@erikarnesen.bsky.social

Oslo, Norway. PhD in nutrition, M.Sc. in public health nutrition. Music and theatre geek. 🏳️‍🌈

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RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Diet His MAHA ideas about food are built on some of the same lies as his antivax campaign.

"While Kennedy’s progressive-sounding ideas about unhealthy food and industrial agriculture are more popular than his retrograde theories about lifesaving vaccines, many of them are just as pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and wrong."

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social in The Bulwark:

08.03.2026 20:36 — 👍 69    🔁 29    💬 4    📌 1
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Some more misconceptions (that you hopefully won’t perpetuate) addressed here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

08.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That must have been per kg. 30 NOK for 2 on Meny’s webshop

05.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Må være feilmerket. 30 kr på Menys nettbutikk.

05.03.2026 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Nothing breaks my heart more than all the farming subsidies that go towards meat and animal products in Norway while back home vegetable prices look like this:

2 parsnips in NO: 105 NOK/£8.12
1kg parsnips in the UK: 10 NOK/£0.74

UK food prices have risen a lot but you can still eat veg for cheap!

05.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1
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How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have? How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have? A Three-Year Household Investigation Conducted Under Conditions of Seasonal Citrus Oversupply by David Balmer¹, Gabriel Balmer¹, Siegfried Hapfelmeier², Maria …

This is groundbreaking research! How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have? 🍊 A longitudinal household survey improbable.com/2026/03/04/h...

04.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

03.03.2026 21:08 — 👍 4644    🔁 762    💬 161    📌 188

Forresten må folk slutte å lage svingdører.

02.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

«Vi får være enige om å være uenig» er verdens dummeste konklusjon.

02.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mener han at folk løp ute i gatene eller slo av TV'en på kvelden pga Midtøsten? 😄

02.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Musikalsøndag med Frank Sinatra på Cinemateket 😃🎩

01.03.2026 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Erik Bye og Egil Monn-Iversen - Vise i Vinterlys (1988)
YouTube video by Arnesen Erik Bye og Egil Monn-Iversen - Vise i Vinterlys (1988)

Min helt, Erik Bye, ville vært 100 år i dag! ❤️🙏 Tidenes nordmann.
youtu.be/ySDU5oaDMmU

01.03.2026 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From French Gastronomy to Cardiovascular Health: Cutting Salt in the Baguette Has Saved Thousands of Lives in France | Hypertension

"A modest reduction in bread salt content, entirely unnoticed by consumers, may have contributed to avoiding thousands of hospitalizations and deaths in France." 🥖 #hypertension #sodium #nutrition www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

28.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Lancets dom over RFK jr. som helseminister: "Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country's most vulnerable."

27.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long-term adherence to the new Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in relation to cardiovascular events and cardiometabolic biomarkers AbstractAims. Little evidence exists on the health implications of adherence to a diet in line with the updated Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR2023).

Swedish people with better long-term adherence to #Nordic Nutrition Recommendations had lower risk of #cardiovascular events and more favourable cardiometabolic biomarkers - academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan... #EpiSky #nutrition

26.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Third-Party Verification for Non-Ultraprocessed Foods Debuts With First Certified Products — Non-UPF Verified Amy's Kitchen, Simple Mills, Spindrift, Chomps, Olyra Foods, YES Bar and Heray Spice lead the natural products industry toward more transparency and integrity with respect to concerns about ultraproce...

This is what happens when there's a new food villain.

Someone invents a non-ultraprocessed certification, food companies make processed food that's just as bad, but without whatever additives.

Certifier charges big bucks for silly "non-UPF certified label"
www.nonultraprocessed.org/newsroom/new...

25.02.2026 21:00 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

Ikke tro at dette er bedre i Norge.

25.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

«Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism»

24.02.2026 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings

Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings

Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings https://theonion.com/nutritionists-recommend-following-occasional-trail-of-sweets-into-dark-forest-to-help-manage-cravings/

22.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 1459    🔁 167    💬 17    📌 10

Samtidig har konsumprisindeksen på grønnsaker og fisk økt med hhv. 39 og 63% de siste 10 årene. www.helsedirektoratet.no/rapporter/ut...

21.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I tillegg: Miljødirektoratet foreslår ikke å øke prisen på kjøtt med 50% i rapporten sin, som det påstås i debattene.

21.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Angående Miljødirektoratets Klimatiltak-rapport: Rapporten foreslår ikke å øke prisen på kjøtt med 50%, men på 50% mer enn andre matvarer, innen 2035. De to er ikke det samme. 🥩

21.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Dagens anbefalte kjøttinntak er på nivå med forbruket på 1950-tallet. Rundt 50% av kvinner oppfyller dessuten allerede anbefalingen om rødt kjøtt i dag (men de fleste spiser for mye bearbeidet kjøtt). www.helsedirektoratet.no/rapporter/no...

20.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sigh.

A couple things:

- Cringe x 100 x ♾️ 😬

- RFK Jr & MAHA didn't invent exercise & healthy eating. On the contrary, GOP = roadblocks to #healthylifestyles.

- Vaccines no, but TRT & steroids yes?

Bizarre new RFK Jr video features shirtless secretary www.msn.com/en-us/music/...

17.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 50    🔁 7    💬 8    📌 1

Han sammenligner det med å «stappe i seg 15 retter og halvannen flaske alkohol» 😂

17.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Det kommer selvsagt an på hva du sammenligner. Hadde den samme burgeren blitt laget på Maaemo, ville den selvsagt ikke automatisk sunnere.

17.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Døving har gått ut med dette utspillet i mange år.

17.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fikk en pose MSG til jul. Har ikke funnet noe å bruke det til ennå. 🤔

16.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Tweet: That slide is even worse than the NEJM KM curves with the truncated y-axis graph inserted on the proper graph. 

Now show me the curves without massively truncating the y-axis

Thank goodness Vinay is at FDA

Tweet: That slide is even worse than the NEJM KM curves with the truncated y-axis graph inserted on the proper graph. Now show me the curves without massively truncating the y-axis Thank goodness Vinay is at FDA

This is such terrible advice that I should use it to update my example of when stretching your y-axis is misleading, and truncating your y-axis is fine.

Hint: Only a fraction of people in a trial will get infected regardless.

14.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 186    🔁 31    💬 17    📌 12
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Fantastisk stemning på Joyride The Musical i Stockholm, med musikk av Roxette! 🥳

14.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0