Kot da v obtoku ne bi bilo že dovolj teorij zarote, pravih barabij, domnevnih vzrokov, da je Popaj ves čas jedel špinačo, je zdaj NYT izbrskal objavo raziskovalca UCSF, po kateri naj bi mešetarji s sladkorjem spodbujali sukanje obtožujočega prsta znanosti od sladkorja k maščobam.

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
Last year, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola, the world’s largest producer of sugary beverages, had provided millions of dollars in funding to researchers who sought to play down the link between sugary drinks and obesity. In June, The Associated Press reported that candy makers were funding studies that claimed that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who do not.
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Vse so nas vodili za nos. Ampak zdaj nas ne več, ker smo veliko pametnejši. :-)

Zanimiv op-ed v NYT o beguncih v Libanonu (z dobrimi linki):

Since it’s easier, safer and carries less risk of corruption to provide cash electronically instead of handing people envelopes of bills, mechanisms should exist for debit cards or cellphone banking.
Here’s how it works: Each needy Syrian refugee family gets a banking card. Family members use it to shop for food at the 450 participating stores and markets; a family of five gets about $135 per month.
Some Lebanese politicians have been spewing a lot of language about driving out refugees by making their lives more difficult still. Western donors should not help in that project. The desperate crossing of Syrians to Europe in boatloads in the summer of 2015 occurred at the same time as the cuts in aid — not a coincidence, according to some European officials. And one of the consequences went beyond the fate of the Syrians. The migration flood contributed to the rise of xenophobic right-wing parties across Europe, and to the decision by British voters to leave the European Union.
It’s strongly in the interest of Europe and the United States to compensate Lebanon richly for its service to the refugees, and to help Syrians there live lives as close as possible to normal. “Here, home is 50 kilometers away,” said Heinrich. “You are in an environment with the same culture, food, climate, religion. If you have hope, you don’t reach the desperate measures of using your last savings to move thousands of kilometers to a strange country.”
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