I’m still chuckling at the oxymoron, “healthy vending machine foods” and yet, that’s what government officials are trying to push through in schools as being safe and healthful for kids. On the one hand they are saying that eighty percent of adults polled said they would support nutritional standards in school foods, and on the other hand they are saying that this includes the junk foods that come out of vending machines. What they aren’t saying is that by the …
A couple of years ago, Gabi Gregg, a fashion blogger, coined the term, Fatkini, as a way to encourage women to share pictures of their real bodies in bikinis, and not to let shame keep them from enjoying themselves at the beach or at a pool. In her blog, she wrote, “I truly encourage you guys to get to the beach (or a pool) this summer – don’t let body shame keep you from having a good time.” And now, …
I just read an article about 25 foods that you have to eat before you die. I looked at the pictures and thought to myself if I had seen this when I was still young enough to eat whatever I wanted, I would probably have tried all of them. Obviously, the writer of that article is a lot younger than I am because she doesn’t take into account that as you get older, most people get a little wisdom with …
I just read an interesting article that scared the hell out of me. In essence, it said that many scientists now believe that we could live to 150 years. To be perfectly honest, I never expected to live this long. Occasionally, I would look down at my body and wonder how long I will inhabit it. And even more important, I wonder how long I’ll be mentally productive. There is so much about extending our life span that sets my …
This is one of those Ripley’s Believe it or Not stories. According to a new study by Harvard researchers, they concluded after studying just 60 people over the age of 65 that “drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day for thirty days was linked with improved blood flow to the brain and better scores on memory and thinking skill tests for elderly people with impaired blood flow.” They claim that “As different areas of the brain need more energy …
I just read about a mini-study on the effects of taking lunch breaks at work. The study showed that people who take lunch breaks work less effectively after lunch than people who eat lunch at their desks. They concluded that people who eat lunch at their desks get more work done than people who go out to eat at restaurants. Nowhere does it mention that the kind of food you eat has the most effect on your body than whether …
I can understand the reason for a country’s policy to deport immigrants for committing a crime but, until now, I had never heard of anyone being deported for being overweight. A chef in New Zealand is facing deportation because he has a body mass index of 40, and immigration policy is that a person has to have a body mass index of less than 35 if he wants to remain in that country. This man has lost 66 pounds since …
In the early ’70s, raw vegetable juice diets became the rage. People were rushing out to buy juicers, and all kinds of books and diet gurus sprang up around us. We might be seeing a resurgence of the liquid diets after the news story came out about a man who has replaced 90% of his diet with a drink mixture of vitamins and minerals which includes calcium, potassium, zinc, vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K. In this man’s …