Should debaters call for Congress to “push the button” and end federal agriculture programs (Stoa topic)? Or to end federal health insurance programs (UIL/NSDA topic)? Or maybe end SNAP, at the intersection of agriculture...
Notes on Health Insurance: Economic Principles and Metabolic Science Gregory Rehmke (NSDA/UIL Substack post) NSDA and UIL debaters can find myriad books, articles, and videos offering policy reforms for the federal health insurance topic....
For the Stoa agriculture debate topic, and for the NSDA (public school) health insurance topic, understanding the Hidden Half of Nature is key. The invisible half of nature are the microbes underground, underwater, and...
Next year’s Stoa league policy topic calls for reforming federal agriculture policy. American industrial agriculture and aquaculture have long been blamed for heavy water, soil, and air pollution. Environmentalists have called for reforms to...
The first long-term nutrition test in Guatemala was the INCAP Longitudinal Study, conducted from 1969 to 1977 by the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP). It was a randomized trial that provided a...
An earlier post, U.S. Foreign Policy and Economic Freedom for Central and South America discussed the history of U.S. military interventions in Central America. I’m researching a separate post on nutritional support programs in...
Last post looked at USFG policies pushing alternative and usually more expensive energy sources in South America. A USFG goal is to reduce carbon dioxide and methane emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas...
Homeschool debate students develop research, advocacy, and communication skills, skills in high demand at think tanks, consulting firms, and education foundations. The recent NITOC tournament featured hundreds of debates on reforming federal heath care policies....
How is this year’s federal health care debate topic like last year’s federal energy topic? Our bodies benefit from clean and reliable energy sources, much as the economy does. But scientists and policy makers...
The metabolic revolution rolls on. Myths and Facts Regarding Low-Carbohydrate Diets, published in the journal Nutrients (17, March 2025), explains: Low-carbohydrate diets have been studied for nearly three decades, with papers on clinical trials...
