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SCIENCE BEHIND JUNK FOOD is every bit as sophisticated as the research behind tobacco. The issue is no longer about nutrition. The issue is about market share driven by an irresistible taste that overrides the body's normal satiety triggers. View in LinkedIn

SLOW PROGRESS. "The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns. Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestlé, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills, among others, have begun to trim the loads of salt, sugar and fat in many products." https://lnkd.in/dNjGR4g View in LinkedIn

CHEETOS “is one of the most marvelously constructed foods on the planet, in terms of pure pleasure.” ... a dozen attributes of the Cheetos that make the brain say more ... the puff’s uncanny ability to melt in the mouth. “It’s called vanishing caloric density. If something melts down quickly, your brain thinks that there’s no calories in it . . . you can just keep eating it forever.” https://lnkd.in/dNjGR4g View in LinkedIn

I live by the Mediterranean, and have very often been perplexed by the persistence of patterns from boats and wave patterns on the sea surface. Pollack gives an explanation. And it is not as I had thought, namely some oil monolayer creating ephemeral stability to pattern. View in LinkedIn

NAPKIN HEALTH SNACK. "When I asked Geoffrey Bible, former C.E.O. of Philip Morris, about this shift toward more salt, sugar and fat in meals for kids, he smiled and noted that even in its earliest incarnation, Lunchables was held up for criticism. “One article said something like, ‘If you take Lunchables apart, the most healthy item in it is the napkin.’ ” https://lnkd.in/dNjGR4g View in LinkedIn

MORE QUESTIONS. "Why does hot water sometimes freeze more quickly than cool water (the Mpemba Effect)? Why does the steam rising from a cup of hot coffee come in discrete puffs? Why do boats leave a wake of relatively still water behind them sometimes 15 or 30 minutes after passing?" https://lnkd.in/dmZHjMr View in LinkedIn

JUNK YARD KINGS. "On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies ...(Nestlé, Kraft, Nabisco, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mars). Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item: the emerging obesity epidemic and how to deal with it." https://lnkd.in/dNjGR4g View in LinkedIn

POLLACK ASKS "why don’t gels, which can be over 99.9% water, leak water? Why do charged aerosol droplets of water coalesce into clouds instead of repelling each other and dispersing evenly throughout the sky?" https://lnkd.in/dmZHjMr View in LinkedIn

MAXED OUT. "The Lunchables team started by using Kool-Aid and cola and then Capri Sun after Philip Morris added that drink to its stable of brands. Eventually, a line of the trays, appropriately called Maxed Out, was released that had as many as nine grams of saturated fat, or nearly an entire day’s recommended maximum for kids, with up to two-thirds of the max for sodium and 13 teaspoons of sugar." https://lnkd.in/dNjGR4g View in LinkedIn

POLLACK "questions the conventional explanation of surface tension, which invokes the hydrogen bonding pressure on the water surface. Could the extraordinary surface tension of water really be explained by the energy in a layer less than one nanometer thick?" https://lnkd.in/dmZHjMr View in LinkedIn