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Science Corner: Cutting the String on Yo-yo Dieting

November 30, 2016 by Andy Walsh No Comments

We may want progress to steadily ratchet towards whatever goal we have in mind, but not all elements of a system change at the same pace.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: diversity, food, microbiome, science, science corner, x-men

Science in Review: The Open and Closed Case of Steve v Steve

August 3, 2016 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Optimizing for sustainability, personal cost, global resource consumption, individual dietary needs, and overall nutrition and health in the presence of uncertainty about the relative and absolute merits of different foods and diets is a nontrivial problem. The space of possible foods over which to perform that optimization is expanding.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: complexity, democritization, food, science, science in review

Science Corner: I Can’t Believe I Ate That Whole Thing

July 6, 2016 by Andy Walsh No Comments

But even with unlimited funds to buy whatever you wish and unlimited time for shopping and preparation, eating well still poses a challenge. There is an educational component as well; you have to learn or be taught what choices to make.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: complexity, Feast, food, nutrition, science, science corner

Feasts and Revelry: Good Food and the Grad Life (Scholar’s Compass)

July 12, 2015 by Dana Ray 2 Comments

I visited the Trade Winds Asian Market on a rare summer evening where time slows and places itself like infinity in your hands. I wanted to make green coconut curry before the summer ran out; summer always seems to run out before it has any right to do so. A friend and I drove to the market and wandered the aisles of unfamiliar labels and food types. We pondered the notations in Chinese characters of which green stalks were lemongrass and which was the Thai basil.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Graduate Studies, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Career Stages, Feast, food, Graduate Studies, health, Scholar's Compass, wellness, work-movement-art-series

Book Review: Eat with Joy

September 10, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Tonight as the first year medical students of Penn State Hershey College of Medicine prepare for their final Anatomy and Physiology exam (on Friday), the Christian Medical Society (CMS)/CMDA will host another free exam week dinner. What inspires upperclass students to bless first years with an every-other-week potluck during the stress of “proving themselves” (and even for […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Called to Care, Eat with Joy, food, intervarsity press, Rachel Marie Stone

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