Eleven Madison Park Granola
They don’t offer this granola on the menu at Eleven Madison Park, New York’s award-winning, 3-star restaurant serving only plant-based food, with a tasting menu that will run you $365 a pop. Instead, all diners get a jar of the granola as a parting gift at the end of their meal, to serve at tomorrow morning’s breakfast. It’s actually a nice touch…
The restaurant wasn’t always vegan, and not everyone was happy when chef Daniel Humm decided to eschew all but plant-based foods when he re-opened the place in 2021 after a Covid hiatus. Although Eleven Madison was once purported to have a ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 5, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breakfast 11 madison park Dried cherries evelen madison park granola Source Type: blogs
Be Prepared Part Two
Not only did our public health infrastructure have no surge capacity for the pandemic, neither did our health care infrastructure, most notably hospital capacity. That was in fact one of the most publicly visible and damaging facts about the pandemic.Judd Legum explains it here. In a pistachio shell, the number of hospital beds in the U.S. has been declining for 45 years, even as the population has increased. Although Legum doesn ' t emphasize it, this is not entirely bad. In fact some decline was desirable. With better surgical techniques and other advances, many procedures that used to require hospitalization can no...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Another big grift
Professor Campos takes a long hard look at the economics of higher education. You can read the whole thing if you ' re interested. In a pistachio shell, tuition has risen enormously in the past 40 years, as have total revenues and spending, but the money isn ' t going to instruction. As a matter of fact, more and more teaching is done by low-paid and job insecure adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty. The money is going to more and more highly paid administrators, fancy buildings, athletic programs, and such fol-de-rol. And by the way it is not the case that public subsidies for higher education have declined. They have in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Well, Stayin' Alive
Steven Johnson has written the book I ' ve been meaning to write, about the history of human life expectancy. (Don ' t worry, I ' ve got another project in the works.) I ' m not sure how the paywall works with the NYT magazine,but he provides a great overview here, which I hope you can read. As I ' ve discussed here more than a few times, life expectancy bounced around just a little from time to time and place to place from the neolithic until the late 19th Century. Then it doubled, quite suddenly, first in the wealthy countries and then around the world. It ' s an artificial construct and interpreting it isn ' t stra...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 27, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Dreams of Reason
I commend to your attentionthis essay by Hunter (somewhat lengthy in the context of today ' s short attention spans) and this by Lili Loofbourow (equally lengthy). They make somewhat similar points, with different framing, so pick the one you like. The version in a pistachio shell is that it ' s pointless to accuse Republicans of hypocrisy, or lying, because they aren ' t even pretending to actually believe anything they say. It ' s all bullshit, 100%. That also means it ' s pointless to try to have a discussion based on facts and logic, because neither of those words means anything to them and their followers. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 21, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Avoiding nuts and seeds for better gut health? You shouldn ’t
Nuts and seeds are important components of a healthy diet. But if you have diverticula — little pouchlike structures that sometimes form in the muscular wall of the colon and bulge outward — you may worry about nuts or seeds getting stuck in those little pockets, which can cause a painful infection called diverticulitis.
Take heart. While it was once believed that nut and seed consumption could lead to diverticulitis, the link is unproven.
In fact, quite the opposite is true. Nuts and seeds are rich in fiber, which is important for gut health and keeping you regular.
How much fiber do you need daily? If you’re over 5...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Digestive Disorders Healthy Aging Healthy Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Foods for Sleep: A List of the Best and Worst Foods for Getting Sleep
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Sleep is relatively flimsy to please – and it’s likely that at least once you found yourself staring at the dark walls, on a night where you could not sleep. Still, did you know that the food you eat could greatly affect the quality of your sleep? Here is what you should – or should not – consume in the hours before going to bed.
Foods Recommended for a Good Sleep
So, there are fo...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: maryjames Tags: diet featured health and fitness better sleep foods for sleep pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
Insignificant significance
Here ' s a new commentary on the concept of statistical significance which I like because it ' s written in plain language and its accessible to people who haven ' t taken statistics courses. I have discussed this before but maybe not lately. It ' s bothered me ever since I studied environmental toxicology back in the 1980s.In a pistachio shell, the basic idea of a P value is that you are looking at a difference between two groups of people or other entities, which differ in some other way. For example, one group has been exposed to some environmental agent and the other has not, and you want to know if they differ in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 28, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Is wheat really THAT bad?
Because it has become such a frequent item in everyday meals, suggesting that something so commonplace must be fine, people often ask: Is wheat really that bad?
Let’s therefore catalog the health conditions that are associated with wheat consumption.
Health conditions we know with 100% certainty are caused by consumption of wheat and related grains:
Celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis, cerebellar ataxia, “idiopathic” peripheral neuropathy, temporal lobe seizures, gluten encephalopathy, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune hepatitis, autoimmune pancreatitis, tooth decay
Health conditions ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains wheat wheat belly Source Type: blogs
We take requests
For some reason I don ' t really understand, a commenter think I should discuss plea bargaining. I ' m not a lawyer nor an expert on the legal system, so I ' lloutsource this to Dylan Walsh.In a pistachio shell, the criminal justice system is totally dependent on plea bargaining, it would collapse under the weight of trials. Plea bargaining aids investigations by allowing prosecutors to squeeze lower-level offenders to provide information about bigger fish, which is okay so long as the information they give is honest. We would hope that prosecutors will take pains to get corroboration but they probably encourage dubious te...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: It's a man's world
As we enjoy this touching drama of family reconciliation, it ' s time to remind ourselves of something so glaringly obvious that we haven ' t even noticed it. Presumably the sons of Israel all have wives and daughters, but they might as well not exist. Only men are worth noticing and naming, only men act in this world. It is a patriarchal society.Keep in mind this is fiction. It was written in the fifth century BC, long after it supposedly happened. It has an essential function in the plot of the Torah, the founding myth of the Jewish people. We ' ll get to that in due course. The story becomes rather tedious at this point...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 17, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Chocolate For Adults Only
Chocolate for Adults Only!
I call this Chocolate For Adults Only because it is certain to leave young, sugar-craving palates unsatisfied. But rest assured, it is appropriate for the most serious chocolate craving!
This is a way to obtain the rich flavors and textures of cocoa, the health benefits (for example, blood pressure reduction and anti-oxidation) of cocoa flavonoids, while obtaining none of the sugars/carbohydrates . . . and certainly no wheat or grains!
It is easy to make, requiring just a few ingredients, a few steps, and a few minutes. Set aside and save some for an indulgence, e.g., dip into natural peanut or a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 15, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates chocolate Cocoa grain-free low-carb monk fruit natural sweetener wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Healthy, wholesome easy lunches
Just the idea of packing a lunch elicits a stress response in so many of us. Maybe we’re packing lunch for our kids, maybe it’s for us, but the pressure is on to create a simple yet satisfying, healthy yet hearty, easily transportable meal. This seemingly impossible task is daunting to many people. So much easier to rely on the school cafeteria, lunch trucks, and takeout, right?
Wrong! Let us consider the short- and long-term effects of poor choices at lunchtime. Yes, the school cafeteria may offer some healthy-ish options. I can count on my kids not to choose any of them. Likewise our workplace food trucks and fast fo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health
You're reading Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Stress can wreak havoc on your digestive system, with common—and uncommonly uncomfortable—symptoms including stomach-ache, constipation, diarrhea, cramps, nausea and acid indigestion.
Left unchecked, stress can lead to serious gastrointestinal issues. Chronic upset and anxiety may also exacerbate pre-existing ailments like celiac and Crohn’s diseases, stomach ulcers and inflammat...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kevin Jones Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement gut health pickthebrain side effects of stress Source Type: blogs
Barbecue Better for Labor Day
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, when many of us enjoy a long weekend with friends and family and toast the season with a backyard barbecue. The traditional meat-heavy barbecue menu can be hazardous to your health, but it doesn’t have to be. Some of the most popular barbecue foods are well-known to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes (and a number of other diseases, too!), like steak, pork ribs, processed red meats (hot dogs), refined grains (traditional pasta salads, rolls, potato chips), and processed, added sugars (sodas, desserts). But we can help you make over your Labor Day celebration menu with healt...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
