This looks like an interesting approach, but I’m skeptical until I better understand what the rodents were actually fed. A “western high-fat diet” is a meaningless phrase. What kind of fats? Saturated? Seed oils? There is no scientific evidence that eating fat per se creates arterial plaque. How many and what kind of carbs were they getting?
Category Archives: Culinary
Coffee Again
Another study that says it can reduce mortality.
Patricia quit drinking it a couple years ago (except when she goes out to breakfast), so I quit making it (and drinking it myself). I never acquired a taste for the swill, and (as noted in the article) these results don’t mean that non-drinkers should start drinking it, so I guess I won’t.
Ethanol
It’s way past time. I’d bet that if we got rid of the Iowa caucuses, it would be a lot easier to get rid of it.
Basque Cuisine In The American West
An interesting history of an interesting people. There was a Basque restaurant on Redondo Pier that we never tried, but I think it fell victim to Covid; it wasn’t there the last time we went there a few weeks ago. Thirty years ago, on a road trip, Patricia and I ate at a Basque family-style place in Reno, and it was exactly as described.
Counting Calories Burned
This is interesting, and potentially useful research.
As the old saying goes, you can’t run away from a bad diet.
Calorie Restriction
Pizza
…is not Italian. An interesting history.
I was never impressed with the pizza at Shakey’s, but that’s because we had Luigi’s in Flint.
Physical Child Abuse
Adams’s gag-inducing new policy of swapping out food for colon-blow roughage and mashed yeast is a declaration of food war. As if we didn’t have enough wars going on— the woke wars, the COVID wars, the language wars and the info wars and the streaming wars. The hell with peas, give peace a chance.
It’s also a religious war: Eric (like Bill Clinton, another member of the militant vegan brigades) used to be fat, got thin, and is now an evangelist for the cause. Good for you, Eric! But don’t force your cauliflower patties and cheese-less tacos on the kids. It’s been a horrible two years for them: haven’t they suffered enough?
Or is this just a back door way of ensuring they don’t take their masks off even at lunch, because no one wants to eat yam stew?
I wonder how many New Yorkers are fine with this? Or if it will result in more emigration to Florida?
The Worst Michelin-Starred Restaurant Ever
This is hilarious.
Plant-Based “Meat”
The protein quality is inferior (as I would have guessed). The best way, in terms of nutrition, to process plants into meat is to run them through an animal’s digestive system.