If we are what we eat, shouldn’t we know what we are, in fact, eating? This simple idea may be much harder to support than one would guess thanks to lobbying on the part of the food industry, says Arthur Caplan in his MSNBC column today.
As Caplan explains, an IOM report released today recommended the simplification of food labels so that consumers can with a passing glance know the nutritional value (or lack thereof) in the food we eat.…
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Apparently, the Columbia, MO health department has some concerns about a very popular new ice cream. That’s right, cidada ice cream. According to the Kansas City Star, the health department has not said exactly the nature of their concerns. The cicadas were fully cooked and de-winged prior to coating them in brown sugar and milk chocolate.
According to National Geographic, cicadas “make good eating because they are low in fat and high in protein.” It is said that they taste something like asparagus or sometimes a clam.…
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Is there a limit to how far physicians can go in their social or political activism? Ford Vox, writing in The Atlantic, suggests that perhaps there is.
Vox describes the problem like this:
“Doctors are in the cross-hairs of the nation’s politics more than ever. We’re all being asked to achieve more with less. We must cope with nightmare scenarios precipitated by cracks in the social and healthcare infrastructure so often these days that medical schools insist students become effective patient advocates as well as healers.…
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