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- The Nutrition Puzzle
- Elizabeth David’s illustrators
- Kitchen chairs with rush seats
- Salome and John the Baptist
- Halsey Street Kitchen in words
- Microskills: left-right confusion
- I get to keep the mink
- Bearing fruit
- Palchinsky principles
- Baby poorly today
- They are what you feed them
- Staring, staring eyes
- The Supermarkets’ Defence
- Microskills: imitation
- Feed your brain
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The Nutrition Puzzle
A nice article in this week’s (18 February) Economist about poverty and food: The Nutrition Puzzle. Lots of interesting stuff, such as of the 7 billion people in the world, 1 billion do not have enough calories, 1 billion have … Continue reading
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Microskills: left-right confusion
Thinking again about microskills … one thing dyslexics often have a problem with is left-right confusion, and I have this problem too. When I am driving, and someone tells me to turn left, it takes me a long time to … Continue reading
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I get to keep the mink
My mother’s birthday. I bought her a mink hat on Portobello Road yesterday which doesn’t suit her, so thrillingly I get to keep it. The person it looks best on is my sister, but sadly she doesn’t agree with fur. Such … Continue reading
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The Supermarkets’ Defence
I like Guy Watson’s latest rant that came with my veg box today: Carbon Labelling: Help or Hindrance? Though I care more about nutrients than carbon footprints, I think what he says about carbon labelling is equally applicable to nutritional … Continue reading
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Microskills: imitation
Complex cognitive processes (like reading, writing and playing music) can be broken down into a series of much smaller microskills. Most of us were so young when we learned them that we don’t remember each tiny step, and the distinction … Continue reading
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Feed your brain
Not exactly news, but I was digging around for evidence of the impact of diet on children’s development and came across Michele Belot and Jonathan James’s evaluation of Jamie Oliver’s School Dinners campaign: Healthy School Meals and Educational Achievements (Jan … Continue reading
Spoons make you fat
An article published yesterday on BMJ Open – Baby Knows Best? – picked up today by the BBC under the title Spoon Feeding ‘Makes Babies Fatter’ – got me thinking. I’m glad someone is starting to research this area, but … Continue reading
Cheapest among equals
I was talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned that her mother had joined a local campaign to stop a new Tesco being built in her town. She said that one of the planks of their campaign was that Tesco … Continue reading
Toblogganing
To celebrate her first sight of snow, we took our daughter tobogganing in Holland Park this morning. She fell asleep on the sledge on the way up there, and we had to explain to passers by that although she looked … Continue reading
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Sugar tax needed say US experts
The BBC reports today on an article in Nature by Professor Robert Lustig from the University of California – Sugar tax needed say US experts. I haven’t yet read the research but I will soon. Is the idea of regulating … Continue reading