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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Interesting. But I don’t think it’s a spatial storage sort of thing. A 30 year old who has accumulated extensive knowledge does not have trouble retrieving names. I think it has to do more with aging neurons.
and decayed or dead synaptic connections.
I’m trying to revive some of my synapses with learning a new language.
Always a good thing to continually create new neural pathways. This is a major reason why I keep working.
Buy five more coffee cups so you will always have one readily available.
I have plenty of cups. I just might have to use more than one per morning. But then I might forget where I put several, not just one cup of coffee.
Maybe disposable paper coffee cups?
I would still misplace whatever cup I was using for coffee.
Maybe get one of those necklaces that holds your glasses around your neck and use it on your coffee cup
Great idea but could get real messy.
I know, one of those camelback water carriers
https://www.camelbak.com/recreation/shop/packs/ — Nope. Water only.
Fame and fury: China’s wildly different reactions to US-born Olympians https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/china/eileen-gu-zhu-yi-nathan-chen-comparison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
I had never even thought about what it must be like for these Olympians of Chinese decent competing in Beijing.
Thanks for sharing. Now I’m convinced I am a traitor and Too White.
(my reply was written in a humorous fashion and I am not offended about being an American)
I found the article very difficult to read. It seems like you can never please anyone. No matter what you do somebody will criticize it. So best to just be true to yourself.
I felt the same way about the article being a tough read. Journalism, writing quality/skills aren’t what they used to be.
Amen!