Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Monday, September 25, 2023

You are NOT rational

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Addictions affect our ability to think rationally; they prejudice our judgment in favor of maintaining the addiction. That is why it is so d...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Once more, round the 'Net

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Not sure where to start this week. Maybe let's start with this , from Bicycling, on how social media affects, wait for it. . . what you ...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

I dare you to prove him wrong!

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"No study has ever shown that a diet with a significant amount of animal product-based foods can reverse atherosclerosis—and no study e...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Musings on exercise rooms

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As you know, I recently returned from the annual AAR/SBL meetings, this year in Atlanta (you can read about my trip there and back again )...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

I don't like this

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I just ran across this summation of some bee-related research. Seems the bees are just as good at getting addicted to bad food as we are. T...
Monday, February 17, 2014

I should have expected this

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This showed up in my inbox this morning: Last month, “Big Food,” in the form of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a trade orga...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Where it all goes

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Factory-farmed animals on this planet consume more calories than all the humans, by a long shot. Through this lens, the issue of world hunge...
Monday, January 06, 2014

An apple is an apple is a pill...

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As it turns out, an apple does a lot more inside our bodies than all the known apple nutrients ingested in pill form. The whole apple is far...
Friday, December 13, 2013

The good, the bad, and the ugly

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That pretty much describes a few of my culinary experiments in the last few months (man, time flies!). First the good: I receive a daily e-...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

A little exercise goes a long ways

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I've had this in my drafts folder for a few weeks...it's about the value of exercise. After only a week, the young men who had no...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

And where do you eat?

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In 1978, 18 percent of calories were eaten away from home; the figure is now 36 percent. In 1970, Americans ate 6 billion fast-food meals. B...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Things that make you go hmmm...

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How many baked potatoes do you think you can eat to get the same amount of fat as in 1 teaspoon of olive oil? If you said 70, you are right....
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Thursday, June 06, 2013

People of the lie

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The message that people hear is that it is okay to continue with their present diet, as long as they supplement with vitamin pills or other ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Antibiotic use

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More than 90 percent of all antibiotics produced are slated for animal administration.— The Pleasure Trap , page 128 (in CAFOs, etc.) <...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Whole? Not likely

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Incredibly, less than 2 percent of the wheat products consumed in the U.S. Are “whole wheat.” This means that the majority of plant-based fo...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Count the cost

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Modern medical science has given us wonderful gifts, but these gifts have not been free. The astonishing technical capability of medicine, w...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The power of addiction

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..if you give a laboratory rat a choice between cocaine and food, he will choose the cocaine, because cocaine is a more powerful cause of pl...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The wrong questions

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Some people ask if there is any difference between nutrients in 'chemical' or 'organic' form, but that is really asking the ...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Taste good?

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Our tongue is able to distinguish five tastes: sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and savory. Sugar covers up all four. It covers up salty (trail mi...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Food

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Micronutrients matter—the biochemistry says so—except they don't work when provided as supplements in clinical trials. How many studies ...
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