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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This sounds great, but is insurance going to pay for it?
I have two probable answers for you, both strictly personal opinion. In life insurance we test for PSA in males over a certain age when exam and labs are used in the underwriting process. My answer then if and when life insurers implement the Stockholm test it will replace PSA and therefore be “paid for” by insurance companies as part of their acquisition costs.
In health insurance my best guess is no, companies will not pay for the Stockholm test. This test and the associated MRI would likely be considered “medically unnecessary” so pay for these tests yourself. It’s sad that health insurance doesn’t cover/pay for more preventative procedures.
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That’s pretty much what I figured. And it’s so very sad. I know many men, my father included who were not diagnosed until the cancer was extremely advanced.
And I also have four close friends who happend to have their cancer diagnosed early and they are all doing well. They range in age from late 40s to early 70s. And all are between five and 10 years post treatment. All had robotic prostatectomies
My fifth friend locally was just diagnosed last year and unfortunately his is in the advanced stage. He had an orchiectomy and is now receiving radiation treatment.
Unfortunately the PSA test has low specificity. When you combine this with the tendency of males to delay health care needs…, well you probably know more about this then most people. I tend to specifically ask for certain tests during wellness visits. A good example is when I first asked to be tested for Vitamin D levels. I’ve had routine butt scopes since my 40’s (family history). I wonder what my doc will say when I ask her about the Stockholm 3 test. HA.