About once or twice a year, like clockwork, one or another mainstream media outlet will publish an “expose” suggesting that millions of ordinary people are recklessly putting their lives at risk by consuming a food that is deadly dangerous; on top of that, public health officials aren’t doing enough to stop the food’s consumption, suggest [ ] The post Why do ProPublica and other mainstream media…
For a long time, I went all-in on basic MAHA (make America healthy again) tenets, like avoiding statins that lower cholesterol. I rejected numerous recommendations from various physicians that I start in on a low-dose statin. I didn’t want to be part of a life-time sentence to take a drug with unknown long-term side effects, [ ] The post Can Big Pharma Drugs Actually Improve Health? Should We…
So I’m reading this article last month in The Wall Street Journal with the heading: “Everyone in Trump’s cabinet is eating sauerkraut.” It starts: “A new diet is sweeping through President Trump’s cabinet—and it involves heaping portions of sauerkraut. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance have all…
One of the big challenges when I go food shopping has always been to find good eggs. By good eggs, I mean eggs with hard shells and rich orange yolks. The problem in the U.S. is that there are very few places where you can reliably find chicken eggs that meet these basic standards. The [ ] The post My search for the perfect egg, and the surprising place I finally found it; Propublica s hit on…
What was really going on with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest weird stunt, of wrestling garter snakes? It probably wouldn’t even be worth public comment, except RFK Jr. felt the need to post a video of his adventure on X, as if he was seeking attention and adulation. Just another example of RFKJr “promoting [ ] The post Making sense of RFKjr s snake wrestling: an armchair geneaological and…