‘Obesity’ Archives
Go Ahead and Pinch Me – Fighting the Green Meanies
I’m prepared to be pinched today but not for the reasons you might be thinking. For those who have been reading my blog for awhile know that I have struggled to come to terms with the green movement. I am of the mindset that the eating habits of our country need to change as does the food manufacturing processes. However, I do not believe [...]
English Chef's wish for American Children. Can you help?
© Jamie OliverThis video is Chef Jamie Oliver talking briefly about the poor eating habits of Americans and British alike. He was awarded a 2010 TED Prize for his efforts " to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” Without [...]
Confronting Emotional Eating
Food is good! Maple almond cakes with raspberry filling, butternut squash soup with red rice and Andouille sausage, anything that begins or ends with the letters B.B.Q. But food isn’t always good for you. In fact, if not consumed as part of a balanced diet based on principled eating guidelines, the very thing that God has given us to sustain [...]
Will Your Daughter Become a Lonely Malnurished Spinster?
As part of a decade's worth of research on how females change their reproductive decisions in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young half of a group of females were given a good-quality balanced diet while the other half were fed a less balanced diet. The effects of unbalanced meals continued throughout their [...]
Last Supper(s)
I have an uncanny knack for making big life changes on January first of a year. In 1993 I quit eating meat mostly for the experience of being a vegetarian. I went cold-turkey and stuck with it for five years. I reverted back to meat-eating as I made the decision to enroll in a culinary arts program. A year or two before that my body had [...]
