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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Very interesting. I keep saying high schools should be teaching basic life skills, not just English, history, science, and math. Bring back shop and home ec. Include banking investing,insurance, credit, things like that. Also some basic life skills such as how to change a flat tire, how to hang a ceiling fan, how to sew on a button, how to cook some basic meals, how to take care of a house and yard etc.
I actually took shop and home economics in HS and similar courses in college. Try to find a young person today who has taken similar courses. At least with the sheltering in place people are cooking more!
I can so relate. So many young people have absolutely no survival skills. They live their lives on their phones.
And are unable to function without a phone.