More damning evidence that high-fat foods (I’m assuming animal fats) affect both memory and exercise performance. In a bad way. Here’s the Aug. 13, 2009 New York Times story and blog discussion on a report in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Posts Tagged ‘meat
MotherJones.com will have an expert-led reader forum April 13-17 around the provocative question that headlines this article: “Is organic and local so 2008?”
Even if you don’t participate, the article is worth reading.
06
Oct
08
This Month in 1947 Was Tougher
Most people seem anxious about where the world financial crisis is heading, wondering how bad things might get. From that perspective, it was interesting to read this weekend how much more attuned the world was in 1947 to the relationship between meat production and world hunger.
Yesterday’s New York Times noted that on October 5, 1947, President Harry Truman used the first White House televised address to ask Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. Government officials explained that in the winter of 1947-48, food was the most important tool in resurrecting European productivity and, implicitly, in containing Soviet expansionism.
