Posts Tagged ‘righteousness’

Who knew? The vaguely wholesome but ultra-processed graham crackers we use to make s’mores and pie crusts had their beginnings in the righteous temperance movement of the 19th century. Sylvester Graham was a Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer. In his powerful preaching, he explained that God intended for us to be vegetarians and that coarsely […]

“Big food is taking over,” says Barry Popkin, adding an exclamation point in the New York Times to a growing roar of condemnation for ultra-processed foods. The occasion for this is the publication of three new papers – plus an editorial – all at once in The Lancet this week. Popkin was an author on […]

We are living in an age of low trust. Trust in scientists declined through the pandemic and around the world, trust in elected officials registers at very low levels. Because of this, we are absolutely not surprised with the frequent finger-pointing and stories about conflicts of interest in nutrition and obesity. These are subjects that […]