Kevin and I started the morning with this really wonderful, even emotional, conversation about what he really wanted to eat. Welling up out of him came a description of a soup that he wanted to eat for breakfast. Meat stock, with fatty cooked meat slices and shredded raw Napa cabbage, all warmed to a hot soup. As far as I know, he has never eaten ( Read more... )

I found this article today that was so similar in sentiment to an article I posted about here not long ago, by Carlos Monteiro-that it's more than what foods people eat that makes the Mediterranean diet a healthful lifestyle-that I thought it might have been the same author. It isn't. This one is by Georgianna Donadio. I think it's no accident ( Read more... )

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080210183902.htm

Another way that industrial food is making people very sick. This article was posted on gymrats, but vicar's description of how your body reacts after you feed it a steady diet of Diet Coke is so much more ( Read more... )

From Michael Pollan's latest screed on eating local, naturally raised food, which he calls "sun food" in this "Open Letter to the President-Elect" from a recent NYT Magazine (Oct 9, 2008), for its basis in photosynthesis, as opposed to fossil fuels:

For [the fast food] industry and its apologists to imply that it is somehow more "populist" or ( Read more... )

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/263Read more... )

There's a long discussion thread on gymrats, starting with a post linking to this article, Being Fat Sucks. In the article, Barbarella, the mononymous author, tells of finally deciding to lose weight, and what that does to her image of herself as a fat chick. She says some things that I've felt (like the "safety/backup/wingman"), and things I felt guilty ( Read more... )

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/What-the-World-Eats-21099.aspxRead more... )

Found this one through Grist:

While exposure in the womb to 100 parts per billion of the estrogenic drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) causes mice to become scrawny as adults, exposure to a much lower amount, 1 ppb, causes grotesque obesity. This photograph compares a control animal (left) to an animal exposed to a very small amount of DES in the womb ( Read more... )

May 8, 2007
Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside
By GINA KOLATA

It was 1959. Jules Hirsch, a research physician at Rockefeller University, had gotten curious about weight loss in the obese. He was about to start a simple experiment that would change forever the way scientists think about fat.( Read more... )

Rejecting Stereotypes, Athletes Embrace Size (New York Times, Thursday, February 8, 2007 ( Read more... )