Gigi reads FoodWISE, on the value of fats, and of isolation, as here: infection spread in Europe
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FoodWISE wins Living Now Book Awards silver medal!
Gigi reads about processed fats tonight, and announces an award FoodWISE just received for the Living Now Book Awards. See: FoodWISE wins silver! to see the complete listing of all the winners, FoodWISE is about the 7th book cover down. Finding the right category for it (a book on political economy+food psychology+sustainability+cooking+wise living+delicious farming) was…
What’s the deal with cholesterol?
Gigi Berardi reports from FoodWISE on “The Framingham Study,” and here, a side note: Results from Framingham
FoodWISE, science, and the importance of slow information during the coronavirus pandemic
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on diets and our source of information around diets, and advocates slow information for understanding them—as well as understanding lifestyle options during the coronavirus pandemic, as reported here: What are colleges in Washington state doing this fall? Image source: previous vlogs
FoodWISE, how we do science, women farmers
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, asks questions about science, and then mentions women in food production. Here, in the UK: women are the stewards Image: Gigi, milking sheep and making cheese—here, the first cut of curd
FoodWISE, science, ideas about contagious disease
Gigi at her book launch in January (Bellingham Washington) What do we believe? Can we borrow from history to see where our ideas on contagion come from, and how we act on them? Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on respectable science, and highlights “ancient” beliefs about contagious disease, as here: ancient wine windows
FoodWISE and successful “diets”
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, continuing on with her section, “Believing Diets.” Provocative article from the Seattle Times: people living longer?
FoodWISE and eating fat to lose fat?
Eat fat to lose fat? Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on the body’s daily nutrient requirements and how it very cleverly adjusts when we practice caloric restriction (via ketosis and more). And, two articles tonight, what’s a clean wine after what’s a clean wine after all? AND food security issues, again. Image, my preferred…
FoodWISE, the failure of diets, and my university doing the right thing
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, and discusses the nonsensical nature of diets—food in/out does not equal the body you need/want. And—finally, her university is making a bold decision, doing the right thing—being online (mostly) in the fall: WWU this fall.
FoodWISE, the diet industry, and decisive coronavirus action in France
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, beginning the section on diets, and mentions an article on France and its very decisive and all-inclusive actions to control the spread of coronavirus—a lesson in what it takes for the USA to do the same—Does France have it figured out?