“If the U.S. is interested in making itself healthier again, how is it going to know, if it cancels the programs that helps us understand these diseases?” said Graham Mooney, a Johns Hopkins University public health historian.
“We’re going to absorb some of the increase. The growers will absorb some of the increases and then the customers will pay a little bit higher price,” he said.The Consumer Brands Association, which represents Coca-Cola, General Mills, Nestle, Tyson and Del Monte as well as Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive, said its companies already make the majority of their goods in the U.S.
But there are critical ingredients and inputs — like wood pulp for toilet paper — that are imported because of scarce domestic availability. Cinnamon is harvested from trees that can’t survive in the U.S.. Domestic production of coffee and cocoa is also limited.“We encourage President Trump and his trade advisers to fine-tune their approach and exempt key ingredients and inputs in order to protect manufacturing jobs and prevent unnecessary inflation at the grocery store,” said Tom Madrecki, the association’s vice president of supply chain resiliency.Outside a Tractor Supply south of Denver, two family members on opposite sides of the political spectrum debated the tariffs.
Chris Theisen, a 62-year-old Republican, said: “I feel a good change coming on, I feel it’s going to be hard, but you don’t go to the gym and walk away and say, ’God, I feel great.”Nayen Shakya, a Democrat and Theisen’s great nephew, said higher prices are already a hardship. At the restaurant where he works, menu prices have been raised to account for higher ingredient costs.
“It’s really easy sometimes to say some things in a vague way that everyone can agree with that is definitely more complex under the surface,” said Shakya. “The burden of the increased prices is already going to the consumer.”
Listening to his nephew, Theisen added: “I understand this side of it, too.”“I never completed my education, but through this work I have been able to educate my children,” he said.
Anyone who has ever suffered in bed after eating three slices of pizza could surmise there is some relationship between food and sleep quality.For Marie-Pierre St-Onge, the director of Columbia University’s Center of Excellence for Sleep and Circadian Research, years of studying the relationship confirmed it.
Data from large-scale population studies showed that eating a lot ofmade it harder to get deep, restorative sleep, she said. The inverse was also true. People who