Here are some interesting reads from the week of February 4th.

• hope to do a long post on the PCRM eventually, but this was annoying. NPR consulted an embassy for an alternative perspective to the PCRM claims about cheese on their billboards instead of the science. Poor journalism in my opinion Billboards Slather On The Guilt With Anti-Cheese Campaign : The Salt : NPR
• PLoS ONE: Mimicry of Food Intake: The Dynamic Interplay between Eating Companions
• Interesting about treating to cardiovascular risk (multiple risk factors) instead of to target LDL levels Hayward and Krumholz: Open Letter to the Adult Treatment Panel IV of the National Institutes of Health « Marilyn Mann’s Blog