New study reveals cellular changes in taste buds linked to long-term flavor loss
Scientists reveal foods to eat now to stave off cognitive decline later
Data on over 3,000 people shows only 8 percent with low-quality diets maintained high cognitive abilities into their 70s, a new study reveals.
Taste
On subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving design industry terms like taste undefined.
What Are COVID-19’s Long-Term Medical Effects?
Fascinating email from TPM Reader JO, whose personal bio is tailor-made for...
History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terrible for 30 Years
Imagine you are overworked, sleep-deprived and keen to begin your weekend with...
Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
Is Sugar Toxic? (Published 2011)
That it makes us fat is something we take for granted. That it might also be making us sick is harder to accept.
It’s the Sugar, Folks
A new study shows solid links between added sugar and the onset of diabetes.
Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too
The latest study to link coffee and longevity adds to a growing body of evidence that, far from a vice, the brew can be protective of good health.
Sugar 'has similar effect on brain as cocaine'
Withdrawal from chronic sugar consumption would be similar to going 'cold turkey' from drugs, say Australian scientists
Dietary Fiber and Bacterial SCFA Enhance Oral Tolerance and Protect against Food Allergy through Diverse Cellular Pathways
Tan et al. examine the beneficial roles of dietary fiber in peanut allergy using mice. The authors find that this effect involves reshaping of the gut microbiota as well as increased levels of short-chain fatty acids and activity of their receptors GPR43 and GPR109a. High-fiber feeding also increased tolerogenic CD103+ DCs activity, leading to increased Treg cell differentiation.
Coffee no longer comes with cancer warning—it may actually prevent it
World Health Organization reviews the data and reverses an old warning.
Agentic Taste Modeling | lab notes #8
We built a forecasting benchmark to test how well agents predict what you like.
Patient Led Research Collaborative – for Long COVID
Cite as: O’Connor, A. M. (2023). Hypothesis: Long COVID brain fog is caused by free glycan sugar chains in the brain. Patient-Generated Hypotheses Journal for Long COVID & Associated Conditions, Vol. 1, 5-12
I do think this is a kind of novel problem with our current media environment - Serious people aren't good at making content, they have other things to do, but content is what drives attention. Tastemakers used to highlight the serious people but they're gone, replaced by content creators.
