Food nanny nonsense: Calorie restriction lets monkeys live long and prosper

Here’s the problem: “This new insight appears to be particularly important in primates and likely is translatable to humans.”

IMAGE: A 2009 IMAGE OF RHESUS MONKEYS IN A LANDMARK STUDY OF THE BENEFITS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION. THE THEN 27-YEAR-OLD MONKEY ON THE LEFT WAS GIVEN A DIET WITH FEWER CALORIES.

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Claim: Nutritional quality of kids’ menus at chain restaurants not improving

Feeding the false dichotomy of “healthy” food versus “unhealthy” food.

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Inconvenient Research: More frequent hurricanes not necessarily stronger on Atlantic coast

So more ‘settled’ hurricane science — ‘Active Atlantic hurricane periods, like the one we are in now, are not necessarily a harbinger of more, rapidly intensifying hurricanes along the U.S. coast…’

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NOAA admits: Can’t predict hurricane frequency or intensification in warmer climate

That is the bottom line of a study reporting that we can have a lot of hurricanes or intense hurricanes — but not a lot of intense hurricanes. And no one knows what effect (if any) warming might have.

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