Buried under mountains of sugar
The onslaught of sugar in the American diet and its effect on our ability to sense sweetness — and other outcomes — is the subject of this speech I gave to my Toastmasters club last week. The...
View ArticleSoda isn't the sole cause, but it's a great place to start
Note to devious mouthpieces of Big Food ("Always with the negative waves, man."):Something needn't the sole cause of a problem to be a cause of a problem. So when you fault any attempt to curb...
View ArticleBig Soda's shill grasps at scientific straws
One of the tactics that Big Food's paid apologists deploy is class warfare. The pointy-headed, Ivy League liberals conspire with parentally support Berkeley students to take away gosh-darn good eatin'...
View Article"Overconsumption of food without control"
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View ArticleCanada enlists sugar king to fight diabetes
Ordinarily I’d just tweet this ‘cause I don’t have much to add to it, but I wanted to highlight the bankruptcy of this in a headline.One of the Canadian government’s “partners” for an anti-diabetes...
View ArticleNot only not deprivation, it might be a step toward health
Let’s talk about deprivation. As in “deprivation diets don’t work,” which is a mantra of most of the registered dietitians I’ve encountered. Everything in moderation, because people won’t stick to a...
View ArticleTo make food awareness fun
Two years ago, Kareem Bouhafs, 23, of Arlington would have been wary of someone who wanted to warn him about genetically modified organisms, the use of pesticides on foods, or the many additives...
View ArticleAssumed: Your perception of sweetness is very skewed
This is another entry in my “assumptions” series, in which my intention is to explain one of my underlying assumptions definitively, so the next time I feel the need to veer away from a post’s point at...
View ArticleMadness, but hey, it's Halloween
Often, we can see how askew our norms are, just by taking a step or two back from them.Today’s case in point is how all over America, adults are trying to dispose of the floods of candy that came into...
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