The Resolute Woman

Category: food

  • A little poison

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    Un poquito de veneno no mata. Or, in English, a little poison will not kill. We found this reminder about the importance of moderation in a delightful book by Charles Aranda called Dichos—Proverbs and Sayings from the Spanish.

  • Exercise can help cure addictions

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    If you can’t eat just one cookie or one potato chip—and that one cookie or one chip can lead to a day or two of eating too, too much, you may battle a food addiction. I do. Dr. John Ratey has a chapter in his book Spark—The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain…

  • Play the long game

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    I wish I could lose the six pounds I gained between Thanksgiving and Christmas immediately. But it’s never that easy. You’ll never lose a pound a day, but you’ll win if you play the long game, says Rebecca Scritchfield, a registered dietician. “Think balanced nutrition, adequate sleep—seven to nine hours—and exercise.” Scritchfield was quoted in…

  • The remedy for your problems?

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    Here’s another quote from Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers. It’s just what I needed to read after the holidays when I’m trying to lose the six pounds I gained in between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Nidetch says: “Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life…. If…

  • Seven vegetables for lunch

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    Recently I had dinner at La Plaza, an interesting Santa Fe restaurant and bakery. Blue-corn enchiladas and caramel apple pie! A couple of days later, I had lunch at another restaurant in the city–Saveur Bistro. Salmon and fresh fruit and lots of vegetables—asparagus, beets, eggplant with cheese, grilled red pepper and zucchini, acorn squash with…

  • Take a walk

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    Sitting at your desk all day? Get up and walk around at least once an hour. That’s good advice from the October 18-24, 2015, issue of Weight Watcher Weekly. And, give yourself bonus points if you take time to drink a glass of water.

  • Crowd your plate with vegetables

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    The Dallas Morning News considered the latest food trends and fads and concluded, in a headline, that we all need to “see past the hype.” In its Sunday, October 4, 2015, issue, the newspaper advised: “The best way to eat for most people isn’t found in fad diets or even stringent ones. Crowding your plate…

  • Fifteen teaspoons of sugar

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    The makers of several soft drinks and the American Beverage Association have launched a campaign that suggests “mixing lazy days with something light, following sweaty workouts, with whatever you’re craving.” They’re suggesting that “when you’re active, you can afford to eat or drink whatever you like,” says Time magazine in its August 24, 2015 issue.…

  • The first diet book

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    William Banting published one of the first diet books in 1863. Banting suggested a diet based on protein and liquor, says Jessica Lamb-Shapiro in her book Promise Land—My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. You should eat five ounces of meat, fish or kidneys with tea and a little biscuit for breakfast. For lunch, you should…

  • Fat is relative

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    “I wish I were as fat as I was the first time I thought I was fat,” says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison. I heard Wyma discuss her book in an interview on “Think” on KERA National Public Radio.