Nutritionists are trying to get us to eat healthier, particularly to lose weight or maintain it after having lost it. That’s wonderful, but that is only one side of the equation, the demand side. The supply side is “providers,” the people who grow and manufacture food, chefs who create recipes in restaurants and people who write cookbooks. Here’s a challenge for the supply side, a hard challenge: start making healthy foods taste as good as those that are really tasty.
Read MoreFigmentation: Creating figments of imagination.
Wanted: Figmenters. Must have creative abilities and personality that tends to favor gothic horror stories. May be employed in activism, politics, journalism or law as plaintiff attorneys and be able to create modern boogeymen.
Read MoreAccording to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s website, “When someone is referred to with the wrong pronoun, it can make them feel disrespected, invalidated, dismissed, alienated, or dysphoric (often all of the above).” They go onto say that using the inclusive language decreases, among other things “social anxiety and suicidal ideation.”
Read More“Just look at him your Honor, he must be guilty of something.”
This was a cartoon with a person sitting in a witness chair and the prosecutor appealing to the judge. Isn’t that exactly how we treat food stamp (SNAP) recipients? They either have done something wrong to be on food stamps and/or they are surely going to do something wrong if we allow them to buy just anything!
The issue is that we don’t trust them to buy healthy food. But, as Professor Bruce Yandle notes, “Trust and trust-assuring mechanisms can be low-cost substitutes for police, regulators, and court actions.”
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