I just finished a (lengthy) article called Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan. If you have–no, can make–the time to read this article, I highly recommend it.
The basic premise is that the modern approach to food (looking at isolated nutrients rather than whole foods, diets, and lifestyles) is considerably less healthful than earlier alternatives. An interesting [...]
I started a new diet about two and a half weeks ago (more on the specifics in an upcoming post), right after I got home from a family visit to Colorado. I’d known for a while that October and early November were going to be nuts, and they were. Besides Colorado, I went to Las [...]
It’s often the little things in life that make me happy. For instance, with all the expensive toys and bikes that I own, one of my very favorite possessions is my heated mattress pad.
Along the same lines, one of the things that regularly frustrated me was my kitchen scale. It wasn’t annoying enough to motivate [...]
The latest of my diet-reading: The Beck Diet Solution by Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. The sub-title is “train your brain to think like a thin person.”
I don’t remember how I first heard about this book, but it was probably one of many that I find while playing on Amazon (I know, some people [...]
I recently borrowed a copy of “The Insulin-Resistance Diet” from my local library, after reading the great reviews on Amazon. I highly recommend this book if you have trouble losing weight, even when you do “all of the right things.” Of course, that means actually doing the right things like exercising regularly and [...]
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