Tamar Haspel

Super excited about this virtual event with my pal, @drjengunter.bsky.social!

Dec 4, 6:30PM PT. Details here: www.crowdcast.io/c/c20bqh2fwey7 via @VPL et al.

Hope to see you there! 🙏

1. The drugs will re-shape the food environment, which is what got us into this mess. Regulation can't do it, but when demand changes, supply changes.

2. Losing weight on these drugs is having a profound effect on people's lives. Sure, healthier. But also happier.

Ozempic is changing how we spend money and time, plus what we eat As people’s bodies change because of GLP-1s, so does their spending across industries including fashion, restaurants, gyms and travel.

The GLP-1s are changing everything.

Food, clothes, travel and more - everyone's retooling for consumers eating less, and eating better.

The two biggest, most important takeaways?

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I know! It's very wonky. If you read the paper, it gets clearer. But the non-statistician takeaway is that results do not point to large, unequivocal improvements in the cognitive outcomes measured. And please don't ask me to explain Bayes Factor!

Exercise is still great! For a million reasons. But it doesn't seem to affect cognitive factors so much. (Although some evidence for sub-groups.)

This is kind of startling.

New meta-analysis (still a preprint) of the effect of exercise on cognition, memory, & executive function finds lots of heterogeneity & publication bias.

Doesn't seem to be as beneficial as was often reported.
HT @fbartos.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you! That's the nicest thing you can say to a writer.

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Thank you, Simon!

As someone who purchased this book, enjoyed it, and told many a food lover about it, I can tell you how much I enjoyed it. And would still buy it at full price.

but of course

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To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard Buy To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

I wrote a book a few years back. It's about food, but it's really about adventure and love and the secret to successful self-improvement.

And I see the hardcover version is now a mere $3.93 on Amazon.

Super cheap way to make anyone on your gift list laugh.
www.amazon.com/Boldly-Grow-...

Fancy Multivitamins Cost $700 a Year. This $15 Option Is Just as Good. When it comes to the wild world of supplements, prices can be deceiving. Here’s what you need to know to get the best vitamins for your money.

I have a different suggestion for saving money on vitamins ...
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Aaargh that was causal before spell check got hold of it

It's like the game of telephone... Gets more casual with each repetition

I VERY much dislike using SM for self-promotion, but…

My new book is THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA.

A lengthy excerpt is available at Maureenogle.com
Buy at bookshop.org, B&N, Kobo, Amazon

Pass it along…..?

a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water . ALT: a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water .

It's actually enraging. It's completely acceptable in scientific/academic circles for a person who sells "therapeutics" to say with a straight face that "we have never claimed causation". There is a level of dishonestly here just out in the open for anyone to see, and yet.

Happy Pie for Breakfast Day to all who celebrate.

Our thanksgiving has fried oysters and elegant presentation

Recipe PSA: the recipes on packaging are the most tested recipes on the planet.

The U.S. Transportation Department is urging air passengers to be on good behavior Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants.

So civility *is* important?
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

ken have i told u about the humble potato

One of my big problems with the DGAC is that the authors believe they can link small changes in nutrient intakes to health outcomes & I think we can't. Yes, beans are great! More nutritious than just about any protein source. But anything more specific is pretending we have info we just don't have.

We'll have to agree to disagree there, my friend. I don't think we have anything close to enough evidence to pinpoint effects of that kind of change in a complex dietary pattern. Basically, less sat fat and more fiber are good. Beyond that, it's basically a guess.

Saloni

Always with the hair-splitting Salonu

Make it "almost all," though ...

Then what is the difference between doing this "model" and enumerating the nutritional differences between beans and other proteins?