The Resolute Woman

Category: food

  • A Few Things We’re Certain About

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    We know far less that we think we do about what we eat, says David B. Allison of the University of Alabama-Birmingham in an article in the May 31, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “There are few things we are certain about. We know that you can’t live without food and that, if…

  • The Big Fat Lie

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    Weight loss does not depend on exercise, says cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in an article in the May 31, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “Exercise–no matter how many gym memberships you buy or how often you wear your Fitbit–won’t make you lose weight….Curbing the global obesity problem will require changing what we eat, not…

  • Do the best you can

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    I like the food and the quotes on the wall at a Lyfe Kitchen in Dallas. My favorite quote is from Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better; then, when you know better, do better.” And, of course, there are quotes about food. “Food is an important part of a balanced…

  • You are what you eat

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    I’m trying to practice some advice I read in the December 7-13, 2014, issue of the Weight Watcher Weekly. “If you are what you eat, make sure it’s good,” the publication advises. For me, that means refraining from stuffing myself with whatever I find in the kitchen—a leftover, not-so-fresh, piece of cake or a box…

  • The news is short, but not sweet

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    The clamor is getting louder. The experts agree on one fact. We’re consuming too much sugar. Now the World Health Organization recommends cutting our intake of sugar to six to 12 teaspoons a day. And, you could get that much sugar in a single can of soda. Here are some more facts from a March…

  • Are you hungry?

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    I just had a wonderful visit with my son, Jay, and my brother, James, and his two adult children, Willie and Emma. It was a wonderful visit, but, after they left, I realized that I had spent four days overeating. I ate a couple of big pieces of Jay’s birthday cake with ice cream. I…

  • The penalty for gluttony

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    Remember the seven deadly sins, standardized by Pope Gregory I in 590 CE? They are pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. Thanks to Steven Pinker and his book The Better Angels of Our Nature—Why Violence has Declined, I just discovered the penalty for gluttony—and I think the prescribed punishment must be one of…

  • Addicted to sugar?

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    “Sugar is addictive,” wrote James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan in the December 22, 2014, issue of The New York Times. “And we don’t mean addictive in that way that people talk about delicious foods. We mean addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs….Cravings induced by sugar are comparable to those induced by…

  • Don’t expect perfection

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    I made a resolution to lose five pounds, but then I went out to dinner and ate too much bread and butter and a wonderful piece of chocolate cake with lots of calories. You don’t have to be perfect, says Jessica Setnick in the December 30, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. If you…

  • I always can begin again

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    After Thanksgiving, I lamented to Fayteen that I had planned to eat with moderation, but somehow I had indulged and indulged and indulged—and not just on Thanksgiving day, but also on several days after Thanksgiving. “I always tell myself that I’m never going to do that again,” I said. Fayteen smiled. “You won’t,” she said,…