Eating out can be a minefield. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has released the Xtreme Eating Awards for 2009. The subtitle of the article, about the Xtreme Eating Award, put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is “Care for an entrée with your entrée?” Another good quote [...]
Category Archives: Weight
Healthy Lifestyle? What Me?
May 28, 2009 – 9:37 pm
What is a healthy lifestyle? This is not a trick question. My answer would be something like the following. A healthy lifestyle is eating a good diet that has lots of servings of vegetables and fruits and is not too high in “bad” fats or simple carbs. It is not smoking, not drinking too much [...]
Sleep And Weight Are Related
May 20, 2009 – 10:55 am
There is increasing evidence that long term lack of sleep is not good for health. Recently there has been further evidence that less sleep equals more weight gain, and that diet plays a role in sleep. Previously on this blog there have been several posts about how lack of sleep has negative health effects. A [...]
Teas Are The Universal Cure-All?
May 11, 2009 – 10:26 am
Suddenly tea and tea extracts seem to be everywhere, in all kinds products. You would think teas are the universal cure-all. For instance, over the weekend I was looking at the ingredient lists for a number of cosmetic products, including daily chemical peel products and after peel moisturizers. Many of the products had tea extracts [...]
Do You Have Much Brown Fat?
April 9, 2009 – 9:44 pm
On reading the question do you have much brown fat; you are probably thinking I really hope not. However, you should be thinking the reverse. So why on earth would you hope to have some brown fat? We nearly all hope for less fat, and brown fat sounds pretty yucky. When we are born we [...]
Weight: It Is Not What You Eat, But What You Drink?
April 3, 2009 – 12:24 pm
A study suggests that controlling what you drink may be an important key to long term loss of weight. Cutting liquid calories may be what is needed for weight loss. Researchers examined the relationship between what people ate and drank, and weight loss. There were two findings. A reduction in the calories consumed in beverages [...]
Do the microbes in your gut make you obese?
January 21, 2009 – 2:55 pm
One of the mysteries of the human race, is why it so hard to lose weight. For some people the answer looks obvious, whether they acknowledge it or not, they are eating way too many calories. However, for other people it is harder to figure out why they find it so hard to lose weight, [...]
How Overeating Can Make You Eat Even More
January 8, 2009 – 2:04 pm
There was an interesting segment on NPR this morning. It talked about how overeating can make you eat even more. Made me reflect on the holiday season and my excesses. Did you know that mice that are fed a high fat diet change their sleeping habits? They get up in the middle of the night [...]
Can You Tell Which Fast Foods Are Healthier?
December 7, 2008 – 9:01 pm
Do we know which foods are really healthy or are we often confused or bamboozled? Could you estimate the calories in foods and say which one is healthier? Do we have biases? Read on! There was an interesting article in the New York Times a few days ago. People were shown some pictures of foods [...]
Fructose Messes With Appetite Control
October 27, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Another strike against consuming lots of fructose. New research suggests that fructose can mess with appetite control. Due to price and convenience many of the commercially prepared foods that we eat contain high fructose corn syrup. In the last few years there has been a lot of bad press about consuming lots of fructose. Fructose [...]