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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A big problem now is that the synthetic fentanyls are not responsive to naloxone. At least the ones down here in Florida. So overdoses with these synthetics cannot be reversed with naloxone.
Yikes!
Yes!
I was just reading an article on this. And it’s actually not synthetic fentanyl. It’s another drug that is used to stretch the fentanyl. At least in Florida about 20% of the street fentanyl has a drug called xylazine. It is actually a veterinary tranquilizer. And it is the xylazine that does not respond to Naloxone. Most of the overdoses around here are from drug abuse with xylazine laced, fentanyl and other opioids. https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-reports-widespread-threat-fentanyl-mixed-xylazine
Thanks for the link. Now this is a Double Yikes!