HT – Marion Nestle – https://www.foodpolitics.com/2026/03/weekend-reading-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-food/ Download the full report – https://yuka.io/en/report-food-price-composition-us/ Yikes.
Over the years when I invited friends over for dinner they got pretty excited. One day I asked a guest what’s with all the excitement? Chinese food! They were expecting something I really sucked at making. To this day I don’t make much Chinese/Asian stuff. I’d rather go out and eat something someone actually knows […]
When I finished reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I realized my writing will never achieve the level of the great ones. But I am OK with this just as I was OK with deciding not to pursue writing for a living. Too hard, too demanding, too much time spent writing words into the […]
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Participants with the highest intake averaged 9.3 servings of ultra-processed foods per day, while those with the lowest intake averaged 1.1 servings. Compared with the lowest group, those in the highest group had a 67% greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease or stroke, or experiencing non-fatal heart attacks, strokes or resuscitated cardiac arrest. […]
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It is so sad how smartphones are changing everything! I find when I put it on silent and out of sight and out of mind I am way more productive this is so true!
To accomplish anything you need discipline and focus. If you discipline yourself to focus on your handheld computing device reading and responding to social media then that’s your focus. And we wonder why nothing gets done. Smartphones create dumb humans.
It is so true!