Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. In that book, I review research on the “funding effect,” the strong correlations between who pays for food and nutrition research and its outcome. Industry-funded research tends to produce results favorable to the funder’s interests (otherwise it wouldn’t be funded). But recipients of […]
Source: Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy – https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/24/food-inflation-the-price-spikes-of-beef-coffee-eggs-and-dairy/ I decided I would try to collect data online from the largest supermarkets in the country, and I pretty soon realized that the numbers I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. Alberto Cavallo, […]
Over the study period, 1,131 cases of type 2 diabetes were identified among the 108,723 participants. Compared with people who consumed the lowest levels of preservatives, those with higher intake showed a markedly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Overall preservative consumption was linked to a 47% higher risk. Non-antioxidant preservatives were associated with […]
garyskitchen.net is a personal WordPress.com blog (also referred to as a “food memoir”) authored by Gary, the same individual who runs lifeunderwriter.net under the handle SupremeCmdr. The site’s tagline/subtitle is: “A food memoir of weight loss, family recipes, digital cookbook and nutrition information for family and friends”. Key aspects include: Overall, it’s a niche, opinionated […]
Thinking about making black eyed peas for good luck? Me too. As 2025 comes to a close I once again searched my blog for the number of Badass versions I have. Badass Black Eyed Peas Black Eyed Peas – Pandemic Version 2021 Vegetarian Badass Black Eyed Peas – 2022 (don’t ask what happened in 2023) and 2024 Badass […]
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Is there anyway to access this without subscribing to Feedly? I’m curious, does the suspension mean the sale of new policies?
I couldn’t find the actual press release. But according to my news feed it wasn’t much. Here is the company’s full statement:
Prudential is focused on helping customers with their life insurance needs in this challenging time. The product changes announced last week are in response to the unprecedented market volatility over the past month and the anticipated low interest rate environment for the foreseeable future. Moving forward we will maintain a prudent financial approach, continuously evaluating our product portfolio and making adjustments that enable us to continue to deliver for our customers.
Yes, suspension means the company has stopped selling their 30 year term plan.
Thank you. And I assume if you die they will still pay out on existing policies? I don’t have Prudential, but I do have life insurance.
Yes. Death claims will be paid as contractual obligations. Once a life insurance policy is issued it becomes a contract.
Do you think any multi billionaires such as Bloomberg, Gates, Buffet, Bezos might step in to help to save the country’s economy?
The Gates Foundation is stepping up and has pledged $10 billion over the next 10 years towards vaccine development. But I don’t see any B’s throwing money at saving the economy.