What’s the School Lunch Supposed to Do? A Different Model

Several readers have commented on American school lunches in recent weeks.  Never having had direct experience of this iconic daily event, I must admit that it scares me a little. …

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A Historian’s Thoughts on Obesity

1. How do you get the right balance of calories in and calories out, to use the phrase from Cindy’s comment on my earlier post? Very tricky.  Through most of…

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Quote for the Day

“To make vicious and abandoned people happy it has generally been supposed necessary first to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order? Why not make them first happy,…

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