Just in case you haven’t seen Michael Moore’s Sicko, or perhaps didn’t believe him, this great story is a second chance for you to WAKE UP!

More good news for blueberries and antioxidants in regards to brain health and Alzheimer’s , as the USDA news service reviews some recently published literature here.

The story brings to mind a regular frustration I run into as an anthropologist with interests in food and nutrition. Health and nutrition researchers seem to have an exceptionally well-developed reluctance to draw connections between specific, down scale research data and long-term health outcomes. In other words, they don’t like to ever tell people what to (and hence what not to) eat.

As illustrated by the hundreds, perhaps thousands of often contradictory books on dieting and healthy eating, each of which is often authored by a legitimate MD, there is little to no agreement within the research community about how food and diet relates to health, through nutrition.

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