Today’s NYTimes Well blog reports on a national survey linking TV viewing with unhealthy eating: Adjusting for snacking while watching TV did not change the associations, leading the researchers to suggest that broadcast advertising influences eating choices even when children are away from the television. Color me surprised … not. And makes me suspect that [...]
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Posted in QOTD on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in QOTD on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Scotty at The Skinny White Buddha: For every diet philosophy there is a counter philosophy and in the end all this arguing over whether carbohydrates are going to kill me or if red meat is going to give me cancer is really divisive and actually weakens our goal to fix our food system. The [...]
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Posted in Obesity, QOTD on May 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Alice Randall in the NYTimes’ op-ed Black Women and Fat (the whole article is well worth a read): I expect obesity will be like alcoholism. People who know the problem intimately find their way out, then lead a few others. The few become millions.
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Posted in Exercise, QOTD on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a QOTD two-fer on exercise! First up, David Csonka on exercise excuses: Just be smart, and use your head, except when your head is trying to talk you out of exercising for no good reason. And here’s NYTimes’ columnist Gretchen Reynolds, author of the recently published “The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How [...]
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Posted in QOTD on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Via Myra’s Journey comes this great quote from the Bhagavad Gita: On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits. As Myra points out in her post: If our actions are the main thing, the weight will come off. Our plans should revolve around our behaviors and what we do – period. I recall [...]
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Posted in QOTD on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Andy Bellatti: I always like to tell people: forget “low-fat”, “low-carb”, etc… start thinking “low-processed”.
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Posted in QOTD on April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Ken Leebow of Feed Your Head is even less optimistic than I about HBO’s Weight of the Nation: This “special” will air in May. I’m sure it will have plenty of people with their heads cut off. Sadly, that’s what they do to obese people. And it will discuss, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes. [...]
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Posted in Obesity, QOTD on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Weight of the Nation’s Twitter account: Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the country. Argh. I’m still looking forward to watching HBO’s Weight of the Nation series and have downloaded the Kindle book. But color me disappointed too. You’d think that since they also recognize that “most of us don’t [...]
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Posted in QOTD on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Scott Abel: Peace of mind means tending to a garden that is also of your own creation – and it can be a garden in any figurative sense of the word. But you don’t tend the garden to have the best roses. You tend to the garden to nurture your own soul. … Unfortunately [...]
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Posted in Exercise, QOTD on April 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Via David Despain comes this from Jim Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, on the concept of active regulation: Our biology works best at high levels of physical activity. Obesity is in the ‘unregulated zone.’ When physical activity increases, you enter ‘regulated zone’. Physical activity may help [...]
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