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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I guess another reason to wear a mask when around people.
One of the studies I came across was very small involving three families in a restaurant in China.
When the researchers looked at who got infected the patrons were at three different tables in the path of the airflow from the HVAC system. Let’s just say any barrier is better than no barrier.
What about people living in places like Brooklyn with these huge multi story apartment complexes all close together? I’ve seen pictures of what looks to be a whole block of buildings 4 x 4 of buildings maybe 16 of them, each probably housing hundreds of people. Wouldn’t they have a shared ventilation system? The big cities have such a huge density of people. The more affluent ones can flee to the Hamptons or Florida. But the middle and lower classes are stuck.
The rich get richer and the poor get the blame.