Costco forced to recall 80,000 lbs of butter for dumbest reason nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-…

Just out: My op-ed in The Hill on the US Dietary Guidelines: the problems and how to fix them. Please share! "The current guidelines have likely spawned a chronic disease crisis that has caused millions of premature deaths and accounts for the vast majority of America’s $4.5

Done correctly this would be transformational for American health. Our nutrition guidelines should not be determined by the food industrial complex.

100% agree, Bill Ackman, and I'm grateful to you for your support! (I was part of the author team that did the 1st systematic review of any Dietary Guidelines expert committee--and we found that 95% had at least one tie with food/pharma.) We need to get industry out of our

I've applied to lead the next USDA-HHS Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 🧵 How does this process work? Let me explain (what I know): First, the USDA Secy must be nominated. After that, some combo of this person and the USDA transition team decide on appointments. Mine would not

Happiness (if you want it):* 1. Meet basic needs 2. Avoid cheap dopamine 3. Leave the past alone 4. Limit desires to ones achievable at the edge of your capability 5. Find something beyond yourself (mission, children, God) *Most people want something else.

If getting healthy is your New Year's resolution this year, here are my suggestions for practitioners. These are practitioners using evidence-based approaches, many of whom also understand the issues of food addiction/emotional eating--often the biggest impediment to success.

"Strict vegetarian diets during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of small-for-gestational-age infants and lower birth weights." Let's stop pretending these diets are healthy

For all her grandstanding this morning at Robert F. Kennedy Jr senate hearings - according to the Open Secrets website that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying Elizabeth Warren has taken roughly 1.6 million from the pharma and healthcare industry. The best part is

If you deal with food addiction, I think this may be the best and most qualified team in the country to help you.

anti-capitalism is just code for "i don't know how anything works"

Human brains are neural nets and neural nets work by context. Mathematicians don't understand this, and it's why they are terrible math teachers. They do not understand that "What is this used for?" does not mean "Tell me vehemently that it's important." It means "Give me a

Do you think that Britain is about to erupt? I don’t. And I’ll tell you why. We’ve had an unhinged Islamist terror threat for 20 years and more. 7/7, London Bridge, Manchester Arena, Heaton Park synagogue - and those are just some of the high-profile incidents. We’ve had -

I support the filibuster as an important constraint on majority rule, and correspondingly protection for minorities. But you can’t, with any integrity, invoke the filibuster and pretend that you are not. Every congressional Democrat tweeting out how Republicans control all the

Any time a nation allows slavery, de jure or de facto, the business owning class immediately tries to replace the working class with slaves. If they succeed, the nation collapses and everyone dies. A nation cannot survive if it's populated by slaves. Why? Because nations

Andrew Fraser Tytler writing in the 1780s: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates

“Moderate Democrat” CIA operative gets elected and immediately passes 50 laws to legalize rape.

For many Americans, this is basically our Israel. So we’re really invested in what happens to it.

J Stewart I am now giving the country a democratic route out.