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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Choose your own adventure, I liked that description the best.
Still shopping in-store at CVS with a mask on is my own adventure.
Florida’s ostrich approach.
https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/education/campus/2022/01/07/check-out-these-florida-university-covid-19-omicron-policies-spring/9114783002/
Wow.
Just a few more days and maybe we can be number one! https://twitter.com/pnj/status/1480563080782389249?s=21
This is not good.
Oh I think governor death Santis would love to see Florida number one! It is certainly interesting living in a state where the governor and surgeon general seem to be actively trying to kill off their constituents. Court ordered ban on mask mandates, vaccination requirements , restricting gatherings of large groups inside, using federal money provided to improve ventilation, and obtain test kits. All in for Monoclonal Antibody Tx though. For the life of me, I cannot understand why people will gladly accept technology that is actually newer and less tested than mRNA vaccines. SMH.
I’ll race you to #1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/oklahoma-reports-more-than-27-000-new-covid-19-cases-58-additional-deaths-since-friday/ar-AASDjq4
Ready, set,…
GO! The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 5,011 new COVID-19 cases across the state, bringing the total cumulative number of the state’s positive cases to 769,662 https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-reports-more-than-5000-new-covid-19-cases-16-additional-deaths/38736782
You’re trying to catch up to Florida!
It’s a race!