Food Inflation in America – https://wolfstreet.com/2026/03/11/food-inflation-in-america/ As one reader commented “learn to grow your own veggies and do community chickensotherwise learn to eat soy products.” I Googled “community chickens” and found this: Must be getting rough out there. Health insurance companies are offering mental health counseling to their customers free of charge. Funny thing is […]
Spring Roll Dipping Sauce https://thewoksoflife.com/spring-roll-dipping-sauce/ For new readers an electronic sticky note is a reminder and pointer to recipes from other websites that one day I might try. So when the bots come back (see The Recipes in This Blog Are Being Stolen by AI) they’ll be stealing someone else’s copyrighted material.
I know it’s AI because my recipes can’t be this good!
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, […]
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I read someplace to combat the negative effects of prolonged sitting to take a break every 30 minutes and do two minutes of brisk walking along with 15 chair squats.
I take frequent walk breaks but no squats.
I try to do that little burst of exercise, and also focus my eyes in the distance to relax the muscles in my lens.
I rarely suffer from screen induced eye strain because I also focus my eyes on a distant object to relax my eye muscles. Quite effective.
How often do you focus your eyes on a distant object? I suffer from eyestrain a lot. And any tips you have I’d appreciate.
I’ve never counted but my educated guess is about 2-3 times an hour. I tend to daydream and peer outside my office window.