Tag: healthy eating
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Quick, Easy, Healthy Snacks Anytime Fitness is a chain of gyms founded by Chuck Runyon, who co-wrote Working Out Sucks! (And Why It Doesn’t Have To). I’m not a big fan of “21-day kick-start plans” — I think it’s better to add in one small thing at a time than to risk burning out on…
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Have Some Fun with Your Food A plate of yogurt with a half peach and apple sticks!
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Learning to Say “When!” Most of us know roughly which foods we should be eating more of, and which we should be eating less of, but that second category is just so darn tasty. Quitting cold turkey works for many people, but it can be impractical, especially if you’re not easily able to prepare almost…
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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…
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Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating and founder of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab recently tested a coaching system called Slim By Design. Slim By Design is all about making changes in your approach to food choices, so you can make choices about your eating, instead of just reacting to your environment — to…
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Read the Label Food processing companies are incredibly sophisticated, and their mastery of manipulation of food is only a part of it. Where food companies really excel is in how they write their labels. It can be as simple as the rather silly claim on a candy package that the contents are “a fat-free food!”…
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Sheldon asks a classic question — and illustrates the many ways we rationalize things when we think we shouldn’t be doing them. Note that once a bunch of work gets done to rationalize the cookie, the second cookie just happens. Worst-case scenario: you binge. So how do we get around this? Build treats into your…
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Have Some Fun with Your Food OK, it’s obviously not a burger and fries, but who wouldn’t smile at this great presentation? The US government recommends several servings of fruit a day, and what they mean by that is whole fruit (OK, or sliced — but not processed). Fruits contain sugars, and whole fruits also…