As any pharmacologist or toxicologist will tell you, the dose makes the poison. Most rice contains arsenic. Baked goods contain acrylamide. Seafood contains methylmercury. Natural groundwater contains fluoride. But in moderation, none of those things are toxic. Thanks to RFK Jr, there’s been a lot of silly nattering about the alleged dangers of ultraprocessed foods. […]

The current attack on ultra processed foods by RFK Jr is just a simpleminded binary. He’s treating food as medicine and then vilifying certain ingredients as bad or dangerous. What do you expect from someone with no training in public health? Take food coloring. Ever look at the pills you take: Advil, decongestant, laxative? Those […]

At night, I will soak a third of a cup of rolled oats, oat bran, raisins, almonds, a bunch of seeds, etc. in skim milk. Toss some crumbled walnuts in there to go along with the almonds and hazel nuts and blue berries or other fruit if I have it. The oats soak up the […]