I've withheld comment on pink slime until now for shifting reasons, and I probably ought to shut up still, but the topic continues to flit across my screens.

At first, I couldn't really get into it, and not only because I haven't eaten beef in longer than a decade: OK, ground beef has fillers in it. Not much news there. Yes, I had questions about treating non-nutritive meat trimmings with ammonia, but otherwise, I just couldn't get up for it.

The burgeoning fight around sugar toxicity has two sides: public-health advocates and the private industry.

For the former, the clients are you and me. Not only do individuals suffer from the flood of processed-sugar injected into every corner of the American diet, but there are significant and mounting collective costs as well: shared health costs, lost worker productivity, even national security. Every American, of every political and social persuasion, is affected by these things.

Just about every time I refer to the "Center for Consumer Freedom," I feel the need to acknowledge that yes, I'm doing it again — giving attention to the cynical, purchased slants of a collection of people who identify themselves as uncredible by their very name. They call themselves a consumer group — which is true and a lie. Yes — who isn't a consumer? But no, a group that is funded by industry but implies that it is made up customers should not be heeded.

I don't often post someone else's post just because I like the writing, but that's what I'm doing here.

Lindy West, writing on Jezebel, gathered together a lot of diet-guru advice to become the healthiest person on earth. And her telling of how she did it is fun to read, even if you're not drawn to the subject matter.

'Least, that's what I think.

Only by virtue of having the condition myself, I've long been ahead of the curve on food addiction. But it is catching up, which is (mostly) fine with me.

From Australia comes a report that athletes often don't endorse the junk food they endorse, but do it for the money.

It's one of the reasons I'm glad I'm not sought as a product sponsor. I think it would  be tough to turn down lucre for principle, and the more they offer, the tougher it would be.

One of the blogs I'm following in my RSS reader is by the Fat Nutritionist. Her most recent post describes several quotidian food strategies that I agree with, but it also has this:

Plus if I don’t buy a frozen pizza, I will just order one at some point anyway. There’s no point in fighting it.

I just don't get this fatalism around food choices. There are people who go without pizza their whole lives. What's to say that this writer, or anyone else, can't go without it too?

I avoid celebrity news like the plague it is, but I found a couple of angles to discuss in this story about Miley Cyrus, which popped up on a Google Alert I have running for mentions of eating disorders.

The gist is that Cyrus has lost weight, forcing her Sunday to address rumors that she has an eating disorder. According to that impeccable source Us magazine, she tweeted,

I wrote recently about Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, whose report rings many of same bells I and others have been sounding for a while.

In a webinar on April 19, he will be discussing his report and related topics with Dr. David Wallinga and Karen Hansen-Kuhn, both of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Here's the full text of the notice I got: 

My first Boston Globe story in a while is about Will Mack, who loves tools but specializes in knives, still, 11 years after his retirement from Kitchen Arts, which he built into a beacon for blades on Newbury Street.