By 2606, the US Diet will be 100 Percent Sugar

The US diet has changed dramatically in the last 200 years.  Many of these changes stem from a single factor: the industrialization and commercialization of the American food system.  We've outsourced most of our food preparation, placing it into the hands of professionals whose interests aren't always well aligned with ours.It's hard to appreciate just how much things have changed, because none of us were alive 200 years ago.  To...

The Greatest Love of All

This is the first of the CarbSane Chronicles posts I'll be blending into the main blog. I made an "executive decision" of sorts a while back to dial back on the personal stuff here at the Asylum and have all but abandoned the Chronicles. So I'll be moth-balling it and just posting under the CarbSane Chronicles label here on the main blog.  So Whitney Houston has died.  May she find the peace now that seemed to elude her in life. ...

A Camel Through the Eye of a Needle - at Non-Profit Health Insurers

It is time to drag out that well-worn phrase,...  sometimes you just cannot make this stuff up.  Recently, the New York Post reported about executive compensation at some non-profit health maintenance organizations/ health insurance companies in New York.  To wit,FidelisCareAt one Catholic-run health insurer for the needy, charity starts in the executive suite.Mark Lane, the CEO of the Fidelis Care/New York State Catholic Health Plan,...