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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5.4 now. 5.7 pre-COVID. Made dietary changes, and upped my exercise. Also increase the number of hours asleep by two hours per night. Not sure whether that affects blood sugar. But I read that it can decrease chances of developing dementia.
5.8 but it’s been a few years so I need to get mine checked again. FBS has been OK not great the last three times: 96, 98. 103.
Creeping up. I just checked and actually mine was 5.8 pre-Covid. Yours is probably greatly improved with the weight loss during Covid.
Probably and hopefully so. I have a very strong family history of DM (F dx age 50 and B dx upper 20’s). But so far I’ve managed to delay the onset for myself.
And maybe adhering to your healthy lifestyle and diet you’ll avoid it altogether. How’s the craft beer situation going?
Crept back up to 174, a five pound gain and have stopped the craft beer. (sad emoji)
Good for you! Maybe an occasional craft beer on trips or when you go out?
Behavioral restrictions re-engaged. Yes, only the occasional craft beer for the foreseeable future. I allowed myself a watered down single can of Miller Lite yesterday. (insert another sad emoji).