Over on Weight of the Evidence, Regina has a very interesting post about a study of monkeys and dietary trans fats that had scary findings as far as weight, glucose levels, and insulin resistance. She summarizes it this way:
The trans-fat fed monkeys gained more weight on the same calories as their trans-fat free counterparts! More […]

A while back, I mentioned that I was happy to find Camille’s, which sells a healthier alternative to fast food. At the time, Maria noted that it was easy to make an unhealthy choice, which is true, but what I was really happy with was that they at least had healthy ingredients. If you let […]

Well, me yeah, but…it’s Susan Powter!
If you’re a long-time dieter like me, you may well have remembered the buzz cut Susan and her Stop the Insanity program, a book and video series that focused on exercise and a low-fat diet as the key to weight loss.
Back now after an long absence (she says she took […]

Just a quickie during lunch (really more of a placeholder for later).
This may be a bit of a duh, but it occurs to me that it’s worth thinking about the differences between impulses and compulsions.
For example, I consider that I’ve been pretty much on track since Sunday. That makes today day 5. However, I had […]

Okay, so Jimmy Morris is a low-carb evangelist (which I am not completely on board with), but I really like what he says about the issue of calories in versus calories out:
The problem with calories-in/calories-out is that it relies on a subtle bit of misdirection that has had a dramatic and negative impact on America’s […]

I’m happy that Regina Wilshire (of Weight of the Evidence) is back. I’ve been trying to post a comment there, but Blogger seems to be uncooperating. Here was my point:
One semantic quibble. I’m not sure I would call a diet of 43% carb low-carb. Is it be a low-carb diet when nearly half the cals […]

Jimmy Moore (of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb) turned me on to Jimmy Morris (of Bread and Money) a while back. Both are low-carb evangelists who have lost lots of weight low-carbing.
The latter Jimmy recently wrote an article on the relationship between emotional eating and diet that really resonated with me.
In Is Emotional Eating Another Chicken […]

It’s a slow day at work (we’re moving this weekend to new office digs, so most stuff is packed up), so I’m gonna sneak in an at-work post.
Over on BreadAndMoney.com, Richard Morris (pointer courtesy of Jimmy Moore) shares his personal perspective on his weight loss:

For decades our obsession with quantitative analysis, manifested by our need […]

It’s time. I hate to do it, but I simply must, must give up Diet Coke.
This is gonna be really hard. I don’t remember when I started the serious Diet Coke habit (probably when I started working at Burger King at 16), but it has been a serious habit for nearly thirty years.
I first […]

Oh, this item from today’s Huffington Post is really depressing:

[It] is stunning to learn that the Department of Agriculture has had data since 1981 showing dramatic declines in the nutritional content of modern fruits and vegetables.
According to the data, half the major nutrients tracked by the department from 1950 to 1999 showed significant declines — […]

I’m really tickled by seeing posts from other bloggers (like Amanda and Wendy) who are, like me, making a bigger point of focusing more on nutrition and less on weight loss and/or dieting.
I don’t know why this hasn’t ever clicked before, but perhaps it was because I was frankly far more obsessed with the whole […]

Okay, so here’s the followup inertia post I promised the other day.
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while, and have been meaning to post something about it for a month now, ever since coming across this post from Rantings of a struggling fat chick:

HOW do I change my mindset so that […]

Today’s Diet Blog has an entry about YADB (yet another diet book) with a healthy eating focus: Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less.
Looks like a sensible book with good science behind it. That said, a commenter on Diet Blog sums it up pretty well:

Good advice, but it’s the same information that a hundred other books give […]

So if you’ve been here before, you know that I’ve been struggling to articulate why I’m not more anti-weight loss (for example, see why I weigh myself). Curiously, even if I’m not anti-weight loss, I am against dieting as a weight-loss tactic.
Seems like an unlikely position? Well, read on!
Today, I came across a […]

Okay, I must be really late to the party, as grape tomatoes have apparently been around for years. Well, they have become a new staple for me since I started eating the SuperFoods Rx way.
It turns out that tomatoes are a really super food:

In the area of food and phytonutrient research, nothing has […]

Over on the Weight of the Evidence, Regina dings the AHA for taking the position that lowering trans fats in the diet is an acceptable position (compared to eliminating them). I just love what she writes at the end, and note that this applies to more than the issue of trans fats:

By refusing to support […]

Nutrition & Metabolism has just published a study, Control of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes without weight loss by modification of diet composition, that is interesting if you, like me, suspect that your weight and/or your overeating is related to how much “white stuff” you eat.
Now this study looks at the use of […]

I realize that polenta is the easiest thing in the world to make, but I came across Melissa’s organic polenta in my regular grocery store, and just had to give it a try.
It comes in different flavors (I’ve tried the sundried tomato and the Italian herb), though the flavor isn’t that strong. There’s actually some […]

So today’s Oprah was a repeat from a show last May. One of her guests was Mireille Guiliano, author of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat.
So she went thru her litany of why French women aren’t so fat, and it had a lot to do with the amount of pleasure they get from […]

Regina has a must-read post over at Weight of the Evidence.
In it, she talks about why the focus on “losing weight” completely misses the point and why looking at carb consumption in the diet is critical for people who have one or more of the following: obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, low […]

Oh, I’m really doing this with misgivings, as this has all the appearance of plugging a diet. But, as I mentioned briefly over the weekend, I caught Mark Hyman on PBS basically doing his version of the Wayne Dyer, Andrew Weil, Neil Perricone “I wrote a book and now I’ll tell you all about it […]

If you were following the fat and food posts, you know that I recently have been doing some soul-searching with regards to the fat acceptance movement. I have a lot in common with many in the movement:

I believe that dieting is harmful, and figure dieting is largely responsible for my gaining as much […]

Alright, I’ve been putting this off because I’m still having trouble putting all the pieces together in my head. But I’m just going to go with what I got, and will add more later.
So, in part one of this thread, I talked about coming across the following from Pattie Thomas, someone very prominent in the […]

I mentioned the other day that I ordered the Drs. Hellers’ The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan. The book is meant to help low-carb dieters who have gone off track. I picked it up just to see how their plan has changed over the years.
I’ve skimmed the book, and see that the Hellers are […]

Over at Weight of the Evidence, Regina has posted a guide to low-carb menu planning made easy.
We clearly have different definitions of easy :).
There’s a reason I came up with what I call the lazy person’s guide to managing carbs…I just don’t have the mental fortitude it takes to do all that counting and planning […]