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  • What to Make of Fairlife High-Protein Milk The Coca-Cola Company has teamed up with Mike and Sue McCloskey, dairy farmers, to market a milk branded as Fairlife. It’s the result of a process that pulls apart the nutrients in milk and recombines them to produce a lactose-free, high-protein milk with lower fat. It’s an intriguing…

  • Nine Habits That Can Hold You Back Harvard Business Review posted an article summing up some research by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, who run a leadership consultancy. They examined perceptions of the behaviors of 50,000 people in leadership positions, and came up with this collection of behaviors that lead to bad decision making. It’s…

  • The Grim Seater By Brian Gable, for the Globe and Mail. Related: Should I Get a Standing Desk?

  • Envy for Kids’ School Lunches Founded in DC by 3 Georgetown students, Sweetgreen is a casual restaurant specializing in salads that has expanded to 10 cities. Sweetgreen is also working with area school districts to improve nutrition in schools. Part of its research was looking at school lunches in other places, and Business Insider has…

  • Hidden Sugar Food packages love to trumpet health claims on the front (and quasi-health claims, like “fat free!” on 100% sugar candy), but the most important information is in the nutritional information and the ingredients list. That’s where the package shows calories, fat, protein, and carbs per serving — and tells you how big a…

  • Jogging: Does It Keep You Healthy?

    The short answer is yes. But you could be forgiven for thinking it doesn’t, given the popularity of articles like “What’s Up With That: Why Running Hurts Every Part of Your Body” and news reports like “Training very hard ‘as bad as no exercise at all’.” Both of these represent pretty terrible news for people…

  • Screen Time Makes You Fat James Fell’s latest blog post lists 5 ways TV makes you fat. Most are the usual suspects, but visit the post to see his links and comments about them. The thing I’d add to this is: don’t think your Internet habits are a lot better. Especially if you use more…

  • What 200 Calories of Nuts Looks Like This is a detail from an infographic showing what quantity of different nuts adds up to 200 calories. Most of the other displays along these lines show photographs of food, and part of me wants to see that here, too, but in many cases the quantity is so…

  • One of the best tricks for improving your nutrition while reducing your calories is plenty of protein-rich food and vegetables (as long as you limit the fatty sauces and toppings that are traditionally served with them). And one of the quickest, simplest protein-rich foods to prepare is chicken … which can get pretty dull or…