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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Always good to have a Plan B.
As I approach seventy I still don’t have any retirement plans. I used to think my plans for continuing to work were not shared by others. That is until I saw this chart!
If you like what you do, no reason to retire. Especially in this day and age where one can work from home. I probably would have continued longer if the field of medicine had not so drastically changed with the advent of the electronic health record and insurance companies running the show. Oh dear, you are in the insurance field I hope I have not offended. 😂
No worries. I am extremely hard to offend. All industries have bad actors and the insurance industry has its fair share.
So true. Medical field included!