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Cheerios a Health Food, Says Leader of White House Conference on Nutrition Dean of Tuft's Nutrition School Gives Top Rankings to Sugary Cereals Nina Teicholz Recently I had a popular tweet, which I thought I’d share it with you—since it helps understand why one might have doubts about the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, billed as the biggest event on food policy in more than fifty years. Here’s the  tweethttps://twitter.com/bigfatsurprise/status/1548730633953968128 : (Full food-item rankings can be found  here .) This food scoring system, called the  “Food Compass,”  was published in  Nature Food  in 2021, with lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian, who is the Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Mozaffarian and Tufts have also  led the development  of the White House conference slated for sometime in September. The Food Compass, which gives top ratings to Cheerios, Luck...

By John Kemp, senior market analyst Global coal-fired electricity generators are producing more power than ever before in response to booming electricity demand after the pandemic and the surging price of gas following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The world’s coal-fired generators produced a record 10,244 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2021 surpassing the previous record of 10,098 TWh set in 2018 (“ Statistical review of world energy ”, BP, July 2022). Coal-fuelled generation is on course to set an even higher record in 2022 as generators in Europe and Asia minimise the use of expensive gas following Russia’s invasion and U.S. and EU sanctions imposed in response. By contrast, mine output was still fractionally below the record set between 2012 and 2014 because older and less efficient coal generators have been replaced by newer and more efficient ones needing less fuel per kilowatt. Global coal mine production was 8,173 million tonnes in 2021 compared with 8,180-8,256 million per year betwe...

The Great Rehash, Part One: The Best and the Brightest John Michael Greer July seems to be a good time for explosions, and not just in Fourth of July fireworks displays in the US.  Already this month, a bomb blew up a controversial monument in rural Georgia, while on the other side of the world in Sri Lanka an angry mob stormed the presidential palace and drove the president into exile.  These two events have more in common than a first glance might suggest.  A dull book in a dull blue cover sitting on the endtable next to my sofa will help explain the link between them. “Dreary” really is the right word. The book is  Covid-19: The Great Reset  by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret. It was published in 2020 by the house press of Schwab’s pet organization, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and got the usual praise from the usual pundits in the allegedly serious end of the corporate media. Somewhat less usually, it also attracted a great deal of attention from conspi...