Author Archives: Roger Gosden
Who knows about Fructose?
Was it a sweet or sexy temptation? The apple that Eve plucked from the tree was sweeter than honey, or to be perfectly accurate it had relatively more of the sweeter stuff than in honey. Apples contain more fructose than … Continue reading
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Tagged fructose, Paracelsus, Robert Lustig, sugar diet
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Sweet and Sickly
Everything in moderation, including moderation. That’s Wilde … but did he really mean everything, including sugar, or was Oscar teasing us? What would he say since we consume immoderate amounts of the sweet stuff? And does it matter anyway? Some … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged Ancel Keys, Atkins diet, Gary Taubes, John Yudkin, low carb diet, Michael Pollan, Oscar Wilde, Sugar industry, William Banting
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Where the Bee Sucks
There are compensations of being cooped up indoors in wintertime. Bilbo Baggins looked forward to the long evenings in his hole at Bag End when he could relax in an armchair toasting his feet in front of a blazing fire. … Continue reading
A Healthy Oil Change
Smoke curling out of an open window or from under a car hood is a bad omen, and smoky chimneys and cigarettes emit toxins. It often means bad news, and we made a metaphor of it, There’s no smoke without … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancel Keys, lipid oxidation, polyunsaturated fats, saturated fats
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A Zoo-to-Go
For kids growing up in London during the austere decade after WWII, it was a special treat to be taken to the zoo by parents or school teachers. The zoos were crowded. Children had to be hoisted on the shoulders … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged George Monbiot, London Zoo, Rachel Carson, Virginia Master Naturalists, Whipsnade Park
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 