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  • Getting Ready for Thanksgiving If you are making a new commitment to healthful eating, Thanksgiving might be the biggest challenge of the year. Halloween candy can be tough to resist, but the prospect of tables groaning with comfort food — and cooking plans that seem to be designed to guarantee a week of leftovers —…

  • Consider the Possibilities Only a tiny minority of people are actually harmed by eating gluten, but many people find that if they eat less gluten-containing foods they feel better. That could be for many reasons, including undiscovered sensitivity traits, something about gluten processing that we don’t understand yet, other food components that tend to travel…

  • Happy Halloween! This is a detail from a Halloween Candy infographic at Livestrong.com. It makes and intriguing point! But Swiss people also walk close to twice as many steps as Americans, on average, and I’m sure there are other differences, too. (Why don’t we walk more, anyway? A series in Slate magazine a couple of…

  • Making Seafood Decisions When we make a new commitment to healthier eating, one thing we have to decide is what, exactly, that means. For some people it is as simple as basic adjustments like no junk food in the house or no fast food at lunch. But if you have relied heavily on processed foods…

  • Frozen Food for a Quick, Hot Meal! You’re running late from work, and the temptation to grab prepared food on the way home is huge — rotisserie chicken is good for you, right? And at many groceries it costs no more than a chicken you cook yourself. So you can use some of those virtuous…

  • Fun or Exercise? Whenever people ask me where to start with getting more exercise, I reply, “What sounds fun?” Partly this is a personal bias — I think exercise is fun, and I know that’s a big part of why I am so consistent with it. Plus, who doesn’t like having fun? But there may…

  • “Today was a disaster!” I like to post to this blog by 8:30 in the morning, and I do that by writing the day before and queuing multiple articles when I know I’ll be away from the computer for a few days. It’s nice to be able to! I think we’ve all wished we could…

  • It’s Mostly Water Weight Water retention can be a sign of serious health problems, as when water pools around the ankles or causes the belly to become very large and distended. This article isn’t about that. This article is about harmless water weight — the kind that makes people anxious when they step on the…

  • It’s Not Enough to “Eat Less” Here is some food for thought: — Do you know anyone who grew up with good, concrete information about food, the nutrition different foods contain, and how much of which are healthful amounts? — Do you sleep enough? — Do you get the CDC recommended levels of exercise? — Do…