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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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.