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David S. Ludwig

Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital

Publications -  341
Citations -  41839

David S. Ludwig is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glycemic index & Obesity. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 319 publications receiving 38729 citations. Previous affiliations of David S. Ludwig include Stanford University & VU University Amsterdam.

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Philosophy of Ethnobiology: Understanding Knowledge Integration and Its Limitations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model of partial overlaps that acknowledges both substantial similarities and differences between knowledge systems and argue that their partiality requires reflectivity about the limitations of collaboration and co-creation.
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The Real Cost of Food: Can Taxes and Subsidies Improve Public Health?

TL;DR: Suboptimal diet quality is among the leading factors associated with death and disability in the United States and globally, and the combination of taxation (to reduce selection of unhealthy foods) and subsidies (to increase selection of healthful foods) offers a balanced, evidence-based approach.
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Glycemic load comes of age.

TL;DR: An article in the current issue of The Journal of Nutrition addresses the issue in relation to dietary carbohydrate, and demonstrates that calculated GL can predict the glycemic response to food.
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Ontological Choices and the Value-Free Ideal

TL;DR: The authors argue that ontological choices in scientific practice undermine common formulations of the value-free ideal in science and argue that it is often neither possible nor desirable to evaluate scientific statements independently of non-epistemic values.