H'ok.
Today:
-Rearrange music on the iPod to make room for all the ambient electronica I've been downloading. (check! It's great to do homework and read to, and for blocking out noisy roommates.)
-Go to the bank, deposit check.
-Gather my shit together in preparation for going back out to Forest Grove on a more-like-permanent basis. Don't forget the guitar stand.
-See if we can't finish up In Defense of Food.
As enlightening as In Defense of Food is, I do have to sort of sigh and roll my eyes at the frequent maligning of science and scientists. I realize that nutrition science is a notoriously sticky business - but that's not necessarily the scientists' fault nearly as much as it is the marketers and the food industry taking their tentative claims and running with them before waiting for the peer review process to really take hold. This comic is a pretty good representation of the uneasy relationship between science and the media. Nutrition scientists themselves would be the first to agree with your 'whole foods are better for you than processed or fortified things or taking vitamins' - in fact, you've talked with a few of them for this book.
It's the general attitude of "science is out to get us/science is nothing but a tool for capitalism to tell us what to do/scientists can't see past the end of their beakers" that really bugs me. It's prevalent.
And now, to the bank! Hope they're open 'til 11:30!
-Rearrange music on the iPod to make room for all the ambient electronica I've been downloading. (check! It's great to do homework and read to, and for blocking out noisy roommates.)
-Go to the bank, deposit check.
-Gather my shit together in preparation for going back out to Forest Grove on a more-like-permanent basis. Don't forget the guitar stand.
-See if we can't finish up In Defense of Food.
As enlightening as In Defense of Food is, I do have to sort of sigh and roll my eyes at the frequent maligning of science and scientists. I realize that nutrition science is a notoriously sticky business - but that's not necessarily the scientists' fault nearly as much as it is the marketers and the food industry taking their tentative claims and running with them before waiting for the peer review process to really take hold. This comic is a pretty good representation of the uneasy relationship between science and the media. Nutrition scientists themselves would be the first to agree with your 'whole foods are better for you than processed or fortified things or taking vitamins' - in fact, you've talked with a few of them for this book.
It's the general attitude of "science is out to get us/science is nothing but a tool for capitalism to tell us what to do/scientists can't see past the end of their beakers" that really bugs me. It's prevalent.
And now, to the bank! Hope they're open 'til 11:30!