Eating to Save My Life

A good watchword here: Skip WHITE foods. Click through to find the secret saboteurs that rush sugar to your system.

vanityfair:

A .“The old Washington theory of relativity, briefly: one is important only until a bigger brass appears, was blatently [sic] obvious for whenever before have we had the top potentates of the world here to outrank our dignitaries? We all recall the day when we saw a senator of the like in some…

This is telling…

I watched this film yesterday —it’s free to Amazon Prime members…
I’ve been avoiding the issue of ethical eating, have you?
Take the time to watch this & learn more about our meat & poultry industry. WARNING: It’s unappetizing.
As a result I’m rethinking my relationship to meats. Not sure I can forgo Greek yogurt, but I’m not sure I can see chicken, pork or beef on my plate anytime soon.
Dinner tonight: quinoa, spinach, kidney beans seasoned with onions softened in some olive oil and tossed with red wine garlic vinegar plus salt & pepper. Delish! [Guilt-free]

npr:

For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what’s known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

The bell curve powerfully shapes how we think of human performance: If lots of students or employees happen to show up as extreme outliers — they’re either very good or very bad — we assume they must represent a skewed sample, because only a few people in a truly random sample are supposed to be outliers.

New research suggests, however, that rather than describe how humans perform, the bell curve may actually be constraining how people perform. Minus such constraints, a new paper argues, lots of people are actually outliers. -Shankar Vedantam