Dr. Bissonnette is an associate professor of nutrition and an obesity researcher at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He received his doctoral degree in the nutritional sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, with interests specific to biochemistry and epidemiology. His experience as a dietitian in weight management counseling, in addition to his obesity research, has prepared him to better understand population health. His recent book: INSATIABLE: A Nation's Unappeasable Hunger is the culmination of 15 years of research into the deep-rooted causes of obesity of the many chronic diseases that are now bringing our financial healthcare system to the brink of insolvency. www.insatiable1.com
Author: David Bissonnette, PhD
My Story: the Latin Mass in Bishop Barron’s Diocese
Bishop Barron’s critique of “easy familiarity” – in a forward to a book about the Latin Mass – was exactly what I had experienced in my life.
Germaine Cousin: A Saint for Our Time
Image: Statue of Saint Germaine Cousin by Alexandre Falguière – by Wikimedia Commons Germaine Cousin was a 16th-century shepherdess who lived from 1579 to 1601. Born with a lame right hand and the disease scrofula (a non-tuberculous infection of the …