Elder care in the past versus today
Almost all elders, today, continue to live in a home-based environment. Very few live in elder care communities or institutions.
Opinion: Practicing Factfulness, Sometimes satire and parody.
Almost all elders, today, continue to live in a home-based environment. Very few live in elder care communities or institutions.
Fun with statistics: Relative risk versus Absolute Risk. Most of the time, particularly with medical drugs, we only hear the relative risk values.
Dietician says we should eat amaranth grain for high protein, yet just 1% of world's supply is grown in the U.S. and amaranth doesn't contain vitamin B-12.
Post Covid there has been increase in "living for the present" as people realized they might be postponing experiences for a future that does not come.
Media stories imply there are a lot of vegans and vegetarians. A 2023 Gallop poll found just 4% of the US is vegetarian and 1% vegan, down from 6%/2% 18…
Cardiologist says nutrition science was wrong in the 1980s onward and increased heart disease risks.
Finally, a good article on B-12.
I am so old I remember nutritionists telling us to eat healthy high fiber breakfast cereals and eggs were terrible for us!
You need an instruction manual and spreadsheet to eat the planetary-diet - the diet that leads to nutrient deficiencies, per studies.
And the critical question - can we rely on what they say today?