'Diet and Nutrition' Category
A Healthy Waist
The best indicator for men of cardio-respiratory fitness is their girth.
You can find out with a tape measure - that’s all it takes. Forget calculating muscle vs fat and so on (the BMI or body fat index); the waist measurement is easier and more accurate too.
This is the finding of Dr Jean-Pierre Després and [...]Obesity, fat and sugar
There is a sugar that is processed by our bodies as a fat.
This means that it should help us avoid diabetes - insulin (which is functioning abnormally in diabetes) digests sugar not fat. Insulin’s job is effectively to turn sugar into fat. Unfortunately eating a sugar that is processed as a fat doesn’t [...]The Four Pillars of Health
These are the big picture items.
1. Maintain your sense of control over your own life.This doesn’t mean being a control freak - trying to control others. It means having a good sense of what you are able to do to stay healthy and create the life you want.
2. Maintain good networks.
The better your friends [...]
Slimness For Teens
A hospital in Sydney, Australia, is studying weight-loss for adolescents (13-16 year olds).
They have a program called “Loozit” and is run by the Westmead Children’s Hospital (this is the link http://www.chw.edu.au/kids/loozit/).
They have what I think is a great approach. They invite the kids to turn up after school “for a snack and a chat” [...]Cooking by Taste
Sybil Kapoor has written a cookbook based on the taste of food. This shouldn’t be surprising (it seems sensible enough – we cook for how things will end up tasting after all). What Sybil means is something a bit different – choosing ingredients on the basis of their taste. She calls this, ‘Taste: a [...]
Finding Your Own Diet
There is much advice about telling us what to eat. Some of it is the search for the one wonder food that will guarantee us good health. Even if this was successful, who would want to eat just one thing?
So we need to find out what is good for us. We also [...]The ‘buts’ on Slimness
Slimness is good in our culture at the moment. The overweight are regarded as lazy, slothful and even morally doubtful. Whereas those who are slim are regarded as active, positive and good. (Examining these value judgements about work being good and recreation as bad would be the subject for another blog). [...]
