We already know that weight loss reduces risk of:

➡️diabetes
➡️heart disease
➡️sleep apnea
➡️other stuff

In trials of the new weight loss drugs and these things, the only q is whether they reduce risk INDEPENDENT of weight loss.

Otherwise, kinda silly.
cnn.com/2024/04/17/hea…

Bob Graham was funny, smart, civic-minded and magnificently weird. RIP to a great guy and a Florida original. I once profiled him for his family’s paper. washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…

On Oct. 24, 1975, 90% of the women in Iceland participated in a gender equality protest - they refused to work, cook, or take care of kids.

There's a new documentary about it - The Day Iceland Stood Still - and I can't wait to see it.

HT Semafor variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Speaking of trade-offs between animal welfare & enviro impact ...

Here's a study of pigs illustrating it.

But there were some systems that had high welfare standards AND low enviro impact. But no one label described them - it's all details.
nature.com/articles/s4301…

Food production is all trade-offs, all the time.

EG: improving animal welfare often increases enviro impact.

Systems that give animals more room, or grow them more slowly, increase GHG & land use.

Excellent new World Resources Inst/Richard Waite paper.

wri.org/research/bette…

My grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, had no patience for people carping about paying income taxes.

'You should get on your knees, kiss the ground, and give thanks you're here to pay them,' he'd say.

I try to remember that when I write the checks every year.

You guys! People are spending more money on books.

Who knew?

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NO NO NO CHOCOLATE CHIPS IN BANANA BREAD

TFW one tweet gets you accused both of being aligned with Big Ag AND being woke.

3 things everyone wants to be good for the climate, but aren't, in order of their badness for the climate:

1. grass-fed beef
2. organics
3. local food

They ALL have other advantages! They're not bad things, they're just bad in the GHG equation.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The USDA is paying farmers for cover-cropping & no-till.

Both those practices have enviro benefits, so that's good (I think).

But neither reliably stores soil carbon, so billing it as a GHG win is bad.

Leah Douglas reports.
reuters.com/business/envir…

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The two outcomes covered.

This phrasing is useful because it highlights the primary study outcome & clarifies that low-carb diet first made the low-fat look “better” (& vice versa) by only a nonsignficant ~150 kcal/d (P=0.3) compared to the overall diet difference that amounted to ~700 kcal/d (P<0.0001).

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What should schools do about childhood obesity when there are zero - count 'em ZERO - interventions, either school- or home-based, that work?

The only effective program I've seen has to be implemented community-wide.
npr.org/sections/healt…

Everyone loves talking about how American healthcare compares to those of other countries

Only a few people actually study and understand this stuff

The best research team in the country studying international comparisons of healthcare is hiring

If you are interested, apply!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Duck Stamp contest is on.

I'm casting my vote for this bravely abstract entry.

For all the entries: flickr.com/photos/usfwshq…

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