Category: food
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Eat more fruits and vegetables
If you need another reason to eat a healthier diet, a new study links sugar consumption with diabetes. “For every 12 ounces of sugar-sweetened beverage introduced per person per day into a country’s food system, the rate of diabetes goes up 1 percent,” reports Mark Bittman in the February 27, 2013, issue of The New…
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A cheese tray?
A cheese tray? My assignment is to bring an appetizer for a Saturday evening potluck. But, it’s Friday night, and I’ve had a busy week. A sad week. I helped make plans for a good friend’s memorial service, helped contact people who loved her and helped write her obituary. “Maybe I should make a spinach…
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Killing fat cells
The napkins were on the sale table along with an odd assortment of leftover holiday merchandise, but I am sure I would have bought them even if I had had to pay full price. Bold and decorated with bright pink, yellow and green, the napkins declared: “Why is it that alcohol can kill brain cells…
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Inspiration at the supermarket
I am still trying to lose the five pounds that I gained during the holidays. I always find it frustrating when it’s so much harder to lose weight than it is to gain it. But, I was inspired recently to stick to a healthy diet and lose those pounds. I was in the grocery store…
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What’s your emotional gap?
I don’t remember exactly when or what program I was listening to, but I heard a most interesting discussion on National Public Radio during the holidays about “emotional gaps.” What are you shopping for when you buy presents, especially expensive presents, for family and friends? If there’s a gap between who you are and who…
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To diet, or not to diet?
During the next several weeks, we’re going to share some holiday lessons we’ve learned. When a friend lamented that she would like to lose a few pounds before the end of the year, I remembered the good advice I received years ago from a nutritionist with a Ph.D. It was the winter that my mother-in-law…
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Following your own advice
Often, I realize, I know exactly what would be the best choice to make about what to eat or what to do with my time, but I don’t make the best choice. Sometimes, I even give my children advice and then think later that it might be good for me to follow the advice I’m…
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Plenty of cues
Do you remember that we wrote a blog post recently about habits and talked about the cue, the routine and the reward? A habit is what happens every morning when you grab a cup of coffee at your office. The coffee is your cue to pick up a donut, too. The donut becomes a routine…
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Why we gain weight
Herman Pontzer, an assistant professor of anthropology at Hunter College in New York, has studied the Hadza people of Tanzania. These people are one of the few remaining hunter-gathers. The women walk miles each day searching for berries and other wild plants, firewood and water. And, the men often cover 15 to 20 miles a…
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By 2030, will half of us be obese?
By 2030, Trust for America’s Health predicts 13 states will have obesity rates above 60 percent, 39 states will have rates above 50 percent and every state will have rates above 44 percent. We read this grim prediction in the September 19, 2012, issue of the Dallas Morning News, and, at first, we just felt…