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Tonight: ‘In Defense of Scientific Eating: A Tale of Two Grandmas’

Western Washington University Associate Professor of Biology Anu Singh-Cundy will present “In Defense of Scientific Eating: A Tale of Two Grandmas” tonight at 7 p.m. at Bellingham City Hall's council chambers.
            The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is offered as the second event of the annual Science and the UniverCity community science lecture series. It is sponsored by the College of Sciences and Technology, the City of Bellingham, and, along with the other CST outreach programs, ‘Wizards at Western” and the “Leaders in Their Fields,” is also sponsored in part by a grant from the Cherry Point BP refinery. 

Information about health and nutrition leaps from the lab to the living room faster than most other types of scientific knowledge. Singh-Cundy will explain why nutritional information is sometimes contradictory and confusing and will show how to identify reliable and actionable evidence-based health advice. He compares the culinary customs and health outcomes of two grandmas from opposite ends of the globe to make a point about the limits of traditional knowledge in maximizing health and well-being in the modern age.

The next entries in the "Science" series, "The X-Ray Vision of Mathematics: Seeing Inside Our Bodies and Our World," will be presented on Wednesday, May 12 by Mathematics professor Stephen McDowall.

All of ’s Science and the UniverCity lectures are also taped and rebroadcast on Bellingham BTV 10.