Being my own

flack.

Distillation

of the day: one headline.  But what about the fig and flatulence diet? 

I wish

this was better-written, but it needs to be said.

Would only a cynic suspect

the brand names are going to get the best ratings? Looks that way in the photo -- now if they had shown raw carrots with the fiber thumbs-up I might have rolled right over.

Good take

on a thoroughly recycled story by a guy who has clearly not bought movie popcorn since FDR  was on the teevee. 

Reflections

on the food pyramid, which, in the wake of my squandering three days studying it, is more mystifying than ever.

Throw enough money at a food

and it will get healthier and healthier and healthier. (Yeah, I know it should be "more healthful," but that doesn't read.) 

Another day

another nutrition report that omits a crucial detail: Who paid for the study advocating Vitamin D supplements?