Category: Nutrition/Public Health
Over the last year public health became the world’s number one public policy concern, and poor nutrition should have been at the center of discussion and debate. Past nutrition and public health posts share...
Micah Meadowcroft calls for cutting Fifteen Pounds To Slow The Spread (The American Conservative, July 26, 2021). The title refers both to waistlines spreading across America and to spreading health problems, from chronic diseases...
Update: See Food Behind Bars Podcast episode “The Science” for discussion of prison nutrition research. High sugar, high-carb foods a key problem in prisons. Interviews Kimberly Wilson about her podcast series Crime and Nourishment....
The CDC article Artificial Intelligence, Public Trust, and Public Health (CDC Genomics and Precision Health, September 17, 2020) explains: As part of the Data Modernization Initiative, CDC is supporting strategic innovations in data science using...
Energy powers the American economy, from transportation to textiles, agriculture, and manufacturing, to information technologies, communications, even rocket launches. Lots of matter and electrons pushed one way and another making and moving the everyday...
An earlier post spoke of a “distant metabolic gift” that people today in rich societies struggle with. For many thousands of years the struggle was to survive winters. So the metabolic systems of humans,...
A challenge for modern medicine: Most accepted medical treatments and surgeries lack evidence for being effective: According to the analysis, which analyzed evidence for thousands of medical treatments, there was “evidence of some benefit” for slightly more than 40% of the treatments,...
My new book could be titled: Don’t Diet: Research Nutrition. Diet programs and fads attract millions wishing to lose weight, with billions spent on weight loss goods and services (see The $72 Billion Weight Loss & Diet...
Notes below from Facebook posts on nutrition, public health, and the pandemic. Most Americans have poor metabolic health from poor nutrition (study finds only 1 in 8 are metabolically healthy). Links below to articles,...
Let’s get measured! Notes below on health-related gadgets. Earlier posts have discussed public health debates over nutrition as well as my journey since last April shifting what and when I eat and researching nutrition...