A Second Distant Metabolic Gift
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,...
Category: Nutrition/Public Health
The Path to Normal Nutrition
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,...
Two Surprise Nutritional Journeys
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, Books, and Videos: Poor Nutrition and the Pandemic
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,...
Nutrition Notes: Gadgets for Looking Inside
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...
Vitamin D: Planners, Searchers, and Researchers
Public health authorities, the planners, recommend only modest amounts of Vitamin D, enough to prevent rickets. That’s true but misleading and contributes to public health disasters like the Covid 19 pandemic. It turns out...
From Poor Nutrition to Permanent Pandemics
Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, study finds (ScienceDaily, November 28, 2018) When hundreds of millions across the U.S. and Europe suffer from chronic conditions caused by poor metabolic health, upper...
Amazing Stories of the Pandemic, Energy, and Lockdowns!
• FDA Delays Emergency Vaccine Approval Until They Finish Evaluating New Bagged Salad Kit (The Onion, Nov. 20, 2020) • Energy Future will be a lot like energy past… • Schools (and Children) Need...
Update: Recent Stories on the Pandemic and Public Health
Recent Facebook posts on the Stay Healthy! Research Nutrition & Public Health Policy theme : • A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 (Johns Hopkins, Nov. 22, 2020, updated link) The newsletter...
Lacking Nutrition Knowledge, 88 Million Inflamed
Americans are inflamed! From the campaigns and elections, social and news media anger, lockdowns, and the battered economy. But what if this inflammation is caused as much by poor nutrition as upsetting news? Studies...