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. […]
lifeunderwriter.net 
Very interesting
I found the following statement from the full original article the most interesting because it describes what I do.
“Compared to controls, the WLM individuals were more likely to consider the future consequences of their behaviors and to make decisions about food based on weight control and health.”
Future and long term are the keys.
A lot of people have trouble thinking long term and future.
Ain’t that the truth!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/health/eating-late-appetite-metabolism-wellness/index.html
I found this interesting. All my life I know I have preferred to eat early.
Only 30 participants in the study. Sample size kind of small.