two good review articles on the harms of food dyes 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/ 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224425002213 Children are considered especially vulnerable due to their lower body weight (they get a greater weight based dose in a day) Production of Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 leaves behind contamination with benzidine and other carcinogens. Dyes have been associated with a colitis, renal insufficiency, hepatotoxicity, pathological changes in the gut, and oxidative stress.

the joy you get from seeing your children try something new and want to keep at it to get better supersedes all possible happiness your might get from work or material accolades

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The tax loophole that made U.S. health care unaffordable

The core structural problem of the health care market is simple: The person receiving care is almost never the person actually paying for it.

the exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance from taxable income has had unintended consequences (as most gov programs do)

absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence

just started reading this. very good so far

research institutions and professional schools are forced to use high priced research software with terrible UIs because the market is a niche without any competition now with the cost of software approaching zero the people can make useful tools that respect privacy and costs. introducing papertrace.org https://papertrace.org/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29067814/

imho consuming exogenous ketones is a bad idea https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/4/675

co sleeping is not associated with sids

i'm pretty sure self sovereignty is going to win with these LLM coding tools. i run one of the large healthcare wikis for emergency medicine (wikem.org) and many AI providers just scrape our data and providers are starting to ask chat boxes what to do on shift rather than reading a wiki page. there is no use fighting them to take down queries with our data especially since it is creative commons. so instead, by using their LLMs i built an LLM powered search for emergency docs

WikEM.ai

walking after a meal helps with glucose spikes as your muscles contract and use the glucose that is spiking post consumption

During sleep—particularly slow-wave (deep) sleep—your body upregulates mitochondrial biogenesis, creating new, healthy mitochondria to replace aging ones. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29478834/

many nutritionists cite the Shanghai Women's Health Study when defending soy as part of a healthy vegetable based diet

Adolescent and adult soy food intake and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai Women's Health Study1 - PMC

Background: Soy food is a rich source of isoflavones—a class of phytoestrogens that has both antiestrogenic and anticarcinogenic properties. Obje...

It was a prospective cohort studies on diet and chronic disease in Asian women. Launched in 1996-2000, it enrolled approximately 75,000 Chinese women aged 40-70 and has tracked them for decades through follow-up surveys and health record linkage. It cites lower breast cancer risk with soy consumption and attempts to explain that Isoflavones (genistein and daidzein), which are phytoestrogens may modulate estrogen metabolism and have anti-proliferative effects on breast tissue.... but the study really demonstrates that fermented soy products (Miso, Fermented Tofu, Tempeh) not soy supplements like soy protein may be good in a traditional eastern diet Unfermented Soy (Tofu, Soy Milk, Soy Powders) are highly processed soy protein isolates or that lack the fermentation byproducts found in whole or fermented soy foods and deliver doses of isoflavones 2-3 times what you'd get from equivalent protein in tofu or tempeh

i use a glass/steel aeropress to get plastic free coffee but here is a drip machine alternative

Home | Puresteel

Drip-style coffee maker designed for wellness and longevity. Everything is stainless steel including the tank, valves, showerhead, pipe, and body.

mental health tip: silence as many notifications as possible. this will help make every interaction with communication tech purposeful and minimize anxiety from non urgent interruptions

creatine in older adults https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35984306/

I think far too little attention is being given to the effects of abnormal and stressful growth conditions on the plants' natural defense systems. Plants normally synthesize some toxins and inhibitors of digestive enzymes to discourage attacks by bacteria, fungi, insects, and other predators. When a plant is injured or otherwise stressed, it produces more of the defensive substances, and very often they communicate their stress to other plants, and the resulting physiological changes can cause changes in seeds that affect the resistance of the progeny. (Agrawal, 2001) One of many substances produced by plants in response to injury is chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down chitin, a polysaccharide that is a structural component of fungi and insects. Chitinase, which is produced by bacteria and humans, as well as by plants and other organisms, is involved in developmental processes as well as in the innate immune system. In plants, the enzyme is induced by ethylene and salicylate, in animals by estrogen, light damage, and infections, and can be demonstrated in polyps and cancers. -

Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths

Food allergies are becoming much more common in recent decades, especially in industrialized countries. Most attention has been given to theori...

ignore noise focus on first principles

from seed oil scout's egg testing: "The primary driver of high Omega-6 (linoleic acid) in chicken eggs is the feed. Conventional chickens are raised on a slurry of corn and soy—both crops that are high in unstable polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). -Conventional Feed: A ratio of nearly 11:1 (Omega-6 to Omega-3). -Soy-Free Feed: A ratio of approximately 4.5:1. The Sunflower Swap: Some farms (Shirttail Creek) remove soy but replace it with sunflower oil or meal, which is also high in linoleic acid. The Flax Hack: Other farms pump chickens full of flaxseed to artificially jack up the Omega-3 numbers on the label. " Since your eggs may have more linoleic acid than ideal it is best to keep all your other sources low and your total as low as possible. in texas, Ken's Henz are a great non soy non-gmo choice