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  • 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…

  • A Love Letter for Your Heart Or maybe more of a roller-coaster ride…? Valentine’s Day is coming up, so how about planning for some intervals-oriented workouts to get that heart beating? (What is a good heart rate, anyway? Why does it matter?) Couch to 5k is a program for people who have no running experience.…

  • The Keys to Success: Action Keeping track of food (and exercise) can be every bit as difficult as you want to make it, but it doesn’t have to be. As with any new area of learning, it helps to start small, reconsider your assumptions, and experiment a little to find what works best for you.…

  • When Comments Hurt Many people who change their eating and exercise habits to improve their health find that the people around them are not as supportive as they hoped. Some find that a partner brings junk food into the house, even after being asked not to, or coworkers insist that “one donut won’t hurt anything.”…

  • Does Active Logging Work? Active logging (keeping purposeful food or exercise records) definitely works. For people who do it. And that’s the tough part. Food logging is especially emotional, eliciting reactions from “it’s the devil” to “it literally saved my life” — not surprising for something with so much social importance. It’s tempting to try…