Food, appetite, and overeating
Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s topic is food, so I thought I’d play along with a post on a subject near and dear to my heart: food, appetite, and overeating. Part of what makes this timely is...
View Article@katiecouric: Americans and Food
What David Kessler said! The problem isn’t weight, the problem is food. From a Katie Couric online program from early 2010 (about the 20-minute mark). The whole program is well worth the watch; it...
View ArticleHave your cake and eat 2300 calories too!
Yoni Freedhoff has a great post today about 10 fast food desserts that have more calories than BK’s new bacon sundae. Most of the desserts on the list are from the usual suspects, like Cinnabon or...
View ArticleBBC’s The Men Who Made Us Fat
I watched the first part of this BBC production yesterday and recommend it (part 1 of the first episode above, also see parts 2, 3, and 4). As an overall piece, I think it does a pretty good job at...
View ArticleBBC’s The Men Who Made Us Fat, Ep 2
Episode 2 of The Men Who Made Us Fat aired this past Thursday. You can watch part 1 (above) as well as parts 2, 3, and 4. You can also read Zoe Harcombe’s summary. For a counterpoint, you can read...
View ArticleThe lost art of eating well?
There’s a great post today over at Screaming Fat Girl. The author is adjusting to life back in the US after “two decades of living in an Asian culture.” My thought after reading the post was that it...
View ArticleYoni Freedhoff on the food industry
Watch the talk that the PR firm Fleishman-Hillard decided the food industry didn’t need to hear at an Ontario Medical Association breakfast last week:
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Michael Prager makes an important point about HFCS in responding to a recent “maize-pimping website Corn Commentary” blog post (emphasis mine): The globesity pandemic did take off in the ‘70s, about...
View ArticlePaleo is not a panacea 4
In an MDA post yesterday, Mark Sisson seems to say that if you’re fat or unhealthy, you’re lacking in integrity (emphasis his): Sure, the massive health problems in our country are in part fueled by...
View ArticleTHNKR on Pollan’s Cooked
I wasn’t in a rush to pick up Michael Pollan’s Cooked, but after watching the review below from the folks at THNKR, I decided to move it up in my reading queue! I like what Dan Barber of Blue Hill Farm...
View ArticleToday’s annoying study: diet soda vs meth or crack
Yee gads. I mostly ignored this study about diet soda being equivalent to meth or crack as far as your teeth are concerned when it showed up in my Twitter feed. I’ve mentioned here before I have...
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How to make a fast-food executive very happy: The holy grail of junk-food science is vanishing caloric density, where the food melts in your mouth so quickly that the brain is fooled into thinking it’s...
View ArticleIf obesity is the question, could processed food be the answer?
That’s what David Freedman argues in this month’s Atlantic. In fact, he says that the “real food” movement — represented by Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, and friends — is not scalable: If the...
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Seth Godin thinks Big Food is engaging in the perfect crime: Sometimes, a big profit is the sign that you’re doing something right, creating real value for people able to pay. Sometimes, though, it...
View ArticleDietary guidelines and the food industry
Over at Eathropology, Adele Hite has published part 1 of As the Calories Churn. In it, she gets “down and geeky … with some Dietary Guidelines backstory” since 2000 noting that some involved may have...
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CSPI director Michael Jacobson wants food education back in schools: Parents would be outraged if their children in elementary school didn’t learn that two plus two is four, or couldn’t identify the...
View ArticleCarb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Via Yoni Freedhoff on Facebook, I learned that there’s a new Kickstarter campaign for Carb-Loaded, a documentary looking at “the reasons behind the enormous spike in diabetes and obesity over the last...
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Dr. David Katz pens a thoughtful response to David Freedman’s recent Atlantic piece on junk food and obesity. Katz suggests that Freedman’s thesis could restated simply as “Processed food is here to...
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Social policy researcher Helen Lee thinks food activism is leading public health astray (emphasis mine): Much of the American public health and medical establishment came to believe that one of the...
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