Indeed… I mean… William Howard Taft…
But sure… everyone was thin and pretty in the good old days! /s
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I get the feeling they’re just trying to be more recent than the folks trying to replicate a Neanderthal diet…as if that’s even possible. There are groups that claim the foods that allowed survival - like rice and wheat - are also terrible for humans. To which I say, “Wow - that must’ve wiped out whole civilizations.” 
These people need to visit museums, check out ancient art and sculptures, and get a clue that people came in all sizes regardless of what they ate - across continents and cultures. This obsession with unrealistic goals isn’t going to end well.
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Nope, it never does…
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England has launched a world-first gonorrhoea vaccination programme, aimed at curbing soaring infection rates and tackling the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant strains.
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Even assuming this is shown to be incredibly effective, we will never see it here. “I don’t want my daughter to think it’s ok to have sex.” Already seeing it with HPV vaccines. And “punish the gays” will be right up there. “God’s Will” and all. I have yet to hear why God seems to hate gays, but just loves lesbians. It is a mystery.
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I hope it comes to the US. I’d want myself and my kids to be vaccinated.
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Looks like wild boar meat is back off the menu boys!
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Sure about that? Ol’ Brain Worms probably has a quack lined up who claims anticoagulant rodenticides prevent strokes, DVT, etc. Diphacinone is the new ivermectin.
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Pork: The Other Blue Meat.
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Fun times, my friends.
There is this bit of “good” news, though:
Once you have alpha-gal syndrome, it’s possible to get over the allergy if you can modify your diet enough to avoid triggering another reaction for a few years and also avoid more tick bites. But that takes time and careful attention to the less obvious triggers that you might be exposed to.
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Health news is grim all around today.
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If any of y’all uterus-havers have not deleted any period trackers you might be using, you may be running out of time.
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It’s a small study, always worth noting, but supports previous observational studies. Also leaves “ultraprocessed” as an undefined term. Things like premade and purchased at the grocery store (The ultraprocessed foods researchers provided in the new trial were relatively healthy ones—as ultraprocessed foods go. They included things like multigrain breakfast cereal, packaged granola bars, flavored yogurt cups, fruit snacks, commercially premade chicken sandwiches, instant noodles, and ready-made lasagna), ultraprocessed, delivered by a caterer (in the minimally processed trial diet, participants received meals from a caterer rather than ones from a grocery store aisle. The diet included overnight oats with fresh fruit, plain yogurt with toasted oats and fruit, handmade fruit and nut bars, freshly made chicken salad, and from-scratch stir fry and spaghetti Bolognese), not (or minimally) processed makes my skin crawl. So many class and financial implications here.
That said, the results seem to stand up. It looks like it was a well-designed study. I admit to being uncomfortable with the “you need to cook from scratch or have a private chef. If you don’t your health is your own fault” kind of finding here, and I suspect the MAHA crowd will be all over this as “evidence” than women in the workplace is horrible terrible, no good, very bad. They should be home making pasta from scratch and growing their own herbs. But results are results, and I am very much against the dependence on highly processed shit we call “food” these days. But I do not like the way this was phrased.
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I hear you, but for me it’s the way social media has convinced people that they have to have elaborate meals from different cultures every day. If you’re content to eat the same/similar food every day with only some diversity where it counts, it’s easy to eat cheaply from scratch.
For example, if your base is rice and beans, then you add to your plate whatever fruit or veg you can, when you can, and you’re good.
Or rice, and stir-fry whatever you have to put on top.
Make a pot of (veggie or not) bolognese sauce on the weekend and put it over pasta all week to serve with whatever protein and veggies you have available.
But you have to be OK with your food not looking like something you can post to your social media, and not being totally different from one meal to the next.
I speak from experience: this is very possible even while working well over 40 hours a week with no car for transportation (as long as you’re in a major city, of course).
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