#Diets

Two previous short-term studies demonstrated that if you eat a diet based largely on ultra-processed foods, you are likely to consume far more calories than you would eating less processed diets–and not notice that you are overeating. The big question: why. Study #1:  Hall K, et

Julian Baggini.  How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Granta, 2024.  443 pages.   I did a blurb for this one: How the World Eats is an enormously wide overview of how people throughout the entire world–from hunter-gatherers to NASA astronauts–view, exist within, manage, and try to

Nina Guilbeault.  The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food.  Bloomsbury, 2024. I did a back-cover blurb for this book: The Good Eater is a vegan sociologist’s remarkably open-minded exploration of the historical, ethical, health, environmental, and social justice implications of

Getting in shape for a role has been commonplace in Hollywood for a long time, particularly in recent years due to the wave of superhero movies. But while Reacher star Alan Ritchson doesn’t even play a superhero, he’s certainly built like one. For his role as Jack Reacher in the hit Prime Video

A press release from Stanford University announced: Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health. A Stanford Medicine-led trial of identical twins comparing vegan and omnivore diets found that a vegan diet improves overall cardiovascular health. In a study with 22