Category: Health
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It Can’t Happen Here
During the 1960s a band called the “Mothers of Invention” produced a song called, “It can’t happen here”. Among the places it couldn’t happen was Kansas. I suspect the Mothers had in mind the 1960s revolution of pot, psychedelics, and sex. But I think of the song in a different light and this is in…
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Food as Metaphor
I know the Corporate American Empire is disintegrating when a leading Republican candidate for president accuses the Federal Reserve of near treason while the Third Party candidates who ought to be given a hearing are ignored by the corporate media. I fret about the frayed social contract in Mexico, the Middle East, Europe, and England.…
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Brain and Mind
Cognitive neuroscience demonstrates the link between brain and mind. Change in thought, emotion, or perception is associated with activation of neural networks. Change induced in the brain through chemicals, neurotransmitters, lesions, or trans-magnetic stimulation is coupled with change in thought, emotion, or perception. Mind and brain seem so different yet isomorphic. They seem different because…
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Some Guidelines for Infant Feeding During the First Year of Life
The best food for babies is mother’s milk. This wonderful food is specially designed for babies. Human milk contains immune protective factors, a balance of amino acids, not found in other milks, fatty acids, lactoferrin for biotic health, and other enzymes and micronutrients not remotely duplicated in formula. Human milk changes in its constituents as…
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The Enduring Effect of Home Economics Research
The “discipline” of Home Economics is a curiosity of American culture, a discipline, as American as apple pie –and like apple pie it occupies a hindmost position to more substantive food. Departments and Schools of Home Economics and more recent incarnations, such as colleges of “Health and Human Development” and “Family and Consumer Sciences”, are ubiquitous…
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Fifty Ways to Kill Your Lover: “Good” Foods that Debilitate
As consumers of the great American cornucopia, we are told that some foods are good for us like fruits and vegetables. We are under the impression that some foods are bad for us such as foods high in fat, sugar, or salt. Even these simple generalizations are dubious. America uses more pesticide per acre of…