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  • Less Processed Food, More Cooking When you start keeping track of what you eat, preparing your own food is a big help. You know what the ingredients are, you can weigh foods, and you can avoid the sodium and added sugar (among other things) in packaged food. But if you’re like me, you’ll never be…

  • Eating and Exercise Dr Yoni Freedhoff is a bariatric physician in Canada — he specializes in weight loss (in his case, without surgery, although he is not opposed to surgery for people who can benefit from it). Dr Freedhoff’s position is that weight control is about food, and exercise is about health. Of course, it’s…

  • “Vegetables are all your body needs” promotional poster for the International Vegetarian Union. Like most humans, I’m an omnivore, but I still find this visualization charming. This is the Woman version. There is also a Man version with a few differences.

  • “The five-second rule probably should become the zero-second rule,” said Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College. “Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk.” Quote…

  • Should you change your food pattern? Here are some considerations: – Are you having trouble with portion control? – Are you eating a lot of packaged food or fast food? – Do you have trouble staying alert during the day? Whole foods, especially high-protein foods and vegetables, can make it easier to control how much…

  • So you’ve made a new commitment to eat less – or eat better – and now you need to figure out how to actually do it. One of the toughest things to learn is exactly how much you’re eating. Weighing and measuring everything is tiring, and we don’t eat at home all the time (although…

  • A US Food Administration poster from World War 1. These principles were meant to conserve resources in order to support the war effort, but they’re still good sense today. More about the US Food Administration (and more posters) at the National Archives.

  • There is little new under the sun, from progressive overload to warnings about overtraining to low-carb diet prescriptions, as we see in these 11 Workout Tips from Ancient Civilizations.