It’s September, and for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that means one thing – winter’s coming. Ok, so it means more than one thing, but the fact is that the cold weather will be here before we know it. One of the challenges of eating right during the winter is, oftentimes, convenience – there’s no food in the house, and we don’t want to brave the cold weather to get something from the supermarket, so we order pizza, [...]
If you’re anything like me, you have some fond (and not-so-fond) memories of brown bag lunches. Ham and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, tuna fish on wheat – it seemed sometimes like we were eating the same thing for years and years and years. That is, unless you were one of the lucky ones who was able to trade their lunch for something better – and “better” usually meant whatever we didn’t have. Well, now it’s our turn to pack [...]
The last time you bought prepackaged food, did you notice the little blurb at the bottom that said, “Made in a facility that processes (fill in a potential allergen here)”? If you have any food allergies, you probably did. Or…maybe not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of kids in the U.S. have food allergies. These allergies cause around 150 deaths each year. Reactions in those with [...]
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association stated that only 61.5% of people check the nutrition labels on their food before they buy it. In the past ten years, there’s been a lot of attention paid to those nutrition labels – to make them easier to read and easier to understand. But if only about 60% of people are reading them, what does that say about the effectiveness of the labels? Well, obviously they’re not [...]
“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” ~W.C.Fields 189.7 lbs 19 days ago I wrote about nutrition labels and my modest proposal for making them easier for the average consumer to understand – specifically highlighting ingredients that, based on the calories in that food, were higher than they should be. That way we wouldn’t need to memorize our recommended daily intake of all sorts of vitamins, minerals, and food components. Some of you wrote in [...]
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” ~John Wooden 186.4 lbs One of the reasons we eat so much prepackaged food is “efficiency”. Although our ancestors looked at the changes the industrial revolution had wrought and foresaw a future where we’d do nothing but picnic and play sports all day while efficient machines drove productivity, we know that isn’t what happened. Instead you find yourself microwaving a burrito while scrambling [...]
“Arsenic is edible. Only once.” ~ Unknown 189.9 lbs A block north of me is a church that hosts a Farmer’s Market once a week. A block west of me is Broadway Avenue, the artsy district I’ve written about before, that occasionally closes down a portion of the street to host an even larger (but less frequent) Farmer’s Market. I’m a fan. At these markets you can find everything from fresh peaches practically the size of cantaloupes to home made [...]
“People are more opposed to fur than leather because rich ladies are easier to harass than bikers.” ~ Bumper sticker 193.9 lbs. Weight loss from starvation, check. Muscle atrophy, check. Social isolation, check. Oy. I can’t emphasize enough that the reason I’m starving myself is to raise awareness of how we should eat, and why. I don’t condone it; in fact quite the opposite. If you’re overweight, it’ll take time to lose it safely. If you’re anorexic or bulimic and [...]
“”I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead” ~ Woody Allen 198.2 lbs. If you read yesterday’s post you now know how to torture carrots to be even better for you. But what about other foods? I’m not going to start a gazillion-part series of articles on this, but I did stumble across some information on making one of my favorite foods even better for you: sushi. First off, when it comes to [...]
“Just try it.” “No.” “But you might like it!” “NO!” This is a typical conversation in my house most nights. That is, on those nights that I don’t cook one of the five or six dishes my son can reliably be counted on to eat: Chicken nuggets, pasta, hot dogs, grilled chicken, and a few other foods round out my six-year old son’s list of preferred foods. He does like a few other things: Cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, most fruits, and [...]
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