What I Learned This Week – Carter Williams | 9.8.24

We’re excited to share that we will re-publish Carter Williams’ column – What I Learned This Week – here on Food Is Health. Carter is the Managing Director of iSelect Fund and also publishes the Creative Destruction newsletter. Make sure you check it out and subscribe.

What I learned this week…

Both candidates for president are on a food-is-health kick. Any positive political news is good news in addressing the healthcare cost of poor nutrition.

I am struck that the IRA effort to implement broadband and EV chargers, 4 years later, is barely out of the gate, while Starlink is now live in rural Zimbabwe. Innovation is deflationary.

Rather than another government program, I hope politicians amplify their inner Tom Sawyer to motivate entrepreneurs to paint the fence.

1) What needs to be true for grocery to build more health trust than healthcare?

2) Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy. https://lnkd.in/grDMWY6S

3) Eli Lilly should team with grocery to make customers healthy

4) We have started a podcast to speed up the Food is Health revolution Apple: https://lnkd.in/g4zZPRt9 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gSZiMWmY

5) In 2010, Peru produced 30 tons of blueberries; last year, nearly 300K. Production multiplied by more than 10,000x in thirteen years. Carlos Gereda Cornejo

6) One-year-old John Deere tractors that sold for $1M+ last year are being listed used for $450K by cash-strapped farms.

7) With the inability to reproduce 30%+ of published research, is training AI on PubMed data prudent? (Joseph Pizzorno)

8) A survey in the US found that 82% of undergraduates and 72% of K12 students had used AI for school. A sign of cheating or eliminating the friction in traditional education? https://lnkd.in/gkjmAvBs

9) It is time to create Arnold Kling‘s “Network Based Universities” to lane change talent into the Food is Health and Life Style Medicine. https://lnkd.in/gHqnYiWf

10) There are three “evidence-based” approaches for reversing type 2 diabetes: 1. bariatric surgery, 2. a very low-calorie diet 3. a very low-carbohydrate diet. Keto being a good example of low carb https://lnkd.in/gpKFENa7

11) Consumption tax instead of cap gains: spur capital allocation, drive more productivity, deflation, and social welfare. Create more problem solvers who tame Elon’s worst attributes with competition. https://lnkd.in/gmuyyP9J

12) For more than 50 years, the US has dropped millions of neutered flesh-eating screwworms on Central America every day to prevent damage to US livestock. https://lnkd.in/gtVDzM5V

13) With everyone soon going to the grocery store instead of the hospital, will we need turn signals on shopping carts?

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