Author Archives: Randy Huy Tran

Trade Wars, Oil, and Better Nutrition for all in the US

Currently, the US has a lot of different ways of getting oil: we are drilling ourselves (mostly by fracking) or we trade from various trade partners throughout the world. I want to highlight one of the main problems we have from getting imported oil from foreign countries. Recently, Trump decided to cease trading for oil from the Middle East due… Read more »

Balanced Diet from “In Defense of Food” is NOT practical.

While Michael Pollan makes a lot of recommendations about what to eat to have a balanced diet in their own life, there are a lot of practicality issues that I can observe in real life that can not be applied from the readings. Pollan has made a lot of simple recommendations that can be done such has diversifying the types… Read more »