Carbs could be the culprit

For the past few years we are finding out that weight control is more than calorie in and calorie out.
This study makes a sensible case for avoiding carbs.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ludwig-carbohydrate-insulin-study-20181114-story.html

When is a calorie more than a calorie?

I always thought a calorie is a calorie. Whether the calorie comes from sugar, fat or a snickers bar.  But there might be more to it...if we just honestly studied the relationship of food and calories and weight.

NY Times article on sugar and calories.

What foods to give up in 2017

It's a new year.  And new foods to avoid. This is a pretty good list.  Good luck in the new year.

2017 foods to give up

Is your food healthy? Or nutritious?

What is healthy? This Washington Post examines how words and foods do make a difference in our lives.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html

Lack of exercise is NOT the problem in America

If you have read this blog for the last seven years, you already know this: only by cutting down on portions (thus, calories) will you lose weight. You can't exercise enough to lose just the calories of lunch, let alone, breakfast, lunch and dinner (and snack).

Read this Washington Post article, if you don't believe me, Get rid of that Fitbit.

Try eating just appetizers when eating out

There are many strategies for not overeating at restaurants. Portion control is one of them. Too many restaurants -- in the name of value -- provide too much food.

However, you can eat well and healthy at restaurants.  This New York Time article tells you how to eat healthy at restaurants.

Following these strategies could be a smart way to cut your calories.

Child obesity rates have NOT dropped

Don't believe everything you read.  If you take a closer look at the recent study in the news, you'll quickly see that obesity rates did not drop by 43 percent. The authors of the study actually said the rates stayed the same. 

Read an analysis on Slate.com

We will stop junk food advertising in schools

With an eye toward future Americans, the First Lady is working to change the way junk food is advertised in schools. By eliminating it. It's clear that advertising skews what young people eat. For too long the schools have said one thing, while vending machines and lunch choices said another. Now the soft drink companies will be singing a new tune.

Cutting out junk food ads in school

Information is the key to good nutrition

It looks like -- finally -- that the government will amend the rules around nutritional information.  And it's about time.  How many times have you searched for the calories of a package?  And don't get me started on the serving size.  But now it appears all will change.

What changes would you suggest?  My first suggestion is to put the percentages of sugar, corn syrup, and all those "bad" things right on the label.  If sugar is the third ingredient, does that mean 10% of the product is sugar or 49%?

Read more at USA Today

  

Eat fast food and you will die

Jon Basso, founder of the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, has made a career of serving unhealthy food, and he wants to make sure everyone knows his food will kill you. And to prove it, he brought in a bag of the cremated remains of a customer who died at his restaurant. 

Read  more at: LA times.

"I'm just looking" at calories

Do you want to know how many calories are in that chicken pasta? Most people say no.  I don't believe that.  

I believe most people want to know. They may still choose the higher calorie food.

But knowledge is power. Whether you use it or not, is freedom.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324809004578635783927655580.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_health

Pepsi targets kids

Marketing cigarettes to children is prohibited, so why can Pepsi continue to market colored corn syrup to kids?

Pepsi’s “Live for Now” campaign is the Joe Camel of soda marketing to youth:

"Soda consumption is a major contributor to adolescent obesity. Fortunately, soda consumption has been declining recently, presumably as a result of adverse media attention and policy initiatives like the ban on most sugar-sweetened beverages in schools.

Pepsi’s Live for Now campaign, like the infamous Joe Camel campaign used by R.J. Reynolds, is designed to prey upon these adolescent vulnerabilities in an effort to reverse declining consumption trends as well as to market a particular product."

In your food: The truth is stranger than fiction

Image via WikipediaWhat's in your food today? It's not even Halloween and it's pretty scary.

Let's start with duck feathers and female beetles. Why, that's in KFC chicken. Although they call it L-cysteine hydrochloride and Red 40.

When you walk into Baskin Robbins, I sure you all scream for polysorbate 80 and hydrogenated coconut oil. Well, that's in the ice cream.

And what do you like to put on your Chick-fil-A sandwich? Of course it's dimethylpolysiloxane: a silicone-based agent commonly added to shampoos and Silly Putty.

I could go on and on, but I'm making myself sick. Read all about what's in your food in Men's Health's "Eat this, not that".

Why Junk Foods in Schools?

LA schools serve junk food and they want to keep it a secret. Why? Money, of course. Deals are made everyday in schools to keep the big-food industries rich and your kids nutritionally poor.

Jamie Oliver - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Video Clip

KFC wants Kentucky to OK food stamps for restaurant use

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How can this be a good idea?

Yum! Brands lobbies Kentucky to OK food stamps for restaurant use

Here's one of the comments from the story:

Food Stamps are intended to supply nutrition to those who can not food. Fast food, KFC included is full of fat, salt, fillers and whatever else they can lawfully use to extend meat and flavor cheap ingredients. Elderly, diabetics would be harmed directly by this food, and children harmed over the long haul. The idea is ridiculously transparent and ridiculous in general.
Of course, this does not mean our brain dead legislators won't go along with this greedy,really bad proposal.

We must face it -- we made our children fat

It's a well documented problem, yet very little gets done about. No it's not the federal deficit, it's childhood obesity.

Was it caused by fast food? Probably. Is it because we don't have family dinners in the home anymore? Probably. Is it because of Coke and Pepsi? Probably. Does it have a hundred reasons? Yes.

Then we need a hundred solutions. But the first solution is to admit that we made our children obese!

Georgia must face its childhood obesity problem - Opinion - Macon.com

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Taking on the city of Los Angeles

Kids in the Kitchen targets childhood obesity | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com

Overweight Children: Jan 17, Overweight Children

Horror in the movie theaters

We are all accustomed to getting scared in movie theaters. But there's one thing that's way too scary for owners...displaying the calories of those gigantic tubs of buttery popcorn and sugary drinks.

The NY Times reports after objections from theater chains -- did you expect "Love Story" -- the federal government exempted the candy, pop, ice cream, and that junk they call buttered popcorn, from calorie display rules.

Margo G. Wootan, director of nutrition policy of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said leaving out movie theaters from the new rules was a mistake.

“It doesn’t matter whether you happen to be watching a movie while you’re eating,” Ms. Wootan said. “Those calories still count.”

The center, an advocacy group, has issued reports showing that at some theaters, a large tub of popcorn with butter topping can contain nearly 1,500 calories. A large soda can contain 500 calories. Federal dietary guidelines say that the average person needs about 2,000 calories a day.

The National Association of Theater Owners, a trade group, had called for movie theaters to be exempt from the menu labeling law. On its Web site, the group said that movies were “escapist entertainment” and that moviegoers did not go there with the intent of eating a meal. (Read more...)

All we were asking for was a display of the calories; not to stop selling junk. Obviously, information is power, and there is no one in the movie business that likes to share power. If you want to act like "Jaws" that's up to you; but theater owners don't want you to ever practice reading.

Now playing at all theaters: "I Spit On Your Grave".

Fast Food kills man

Fast food kills. I've been saying it for 4 years. I'm not asking government to shut down Heart Attack Grills across America. Just require them to warning labels on the food, like cigarettes or drugs.

This week's story from the Huffington Post:

PHOENIX — A 575-pound man who gained a measure of fame as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill – a Phoenix-area restaurant that unabashedly touts its unhealthy, high-calorie menu – has died.

Friends of 29-year-old Blair River say he died Tuesday, possibly from contracting pneumonia after a bout with the flu.

Restaurant founder Jon Basso tells The Arizona Republic that River was more than the larger-than-life caricature he portrayed in promoting the restaurant in Chandler, which includes huge hamburgers, milkshakes and fries cooked in lard on its menu.

50 healthy foods under a buck

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Is it too expensive to eat healthy? Then check out this list from TheDailyGreen.com. Jeff Yeager has put together a beautiful shopping list that every family should start out with when they head to the grocery store. I might quibble with a couple of the suggestions -- pork? sour cream? -- as healthy, but most of the 50 are right on and could RightSize America.

50 Healthy Foods for Under $1 a Pound

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Fat Happens

A double cheeseburger from McDonald's is packed with 440 calories. Yet staying away from fast food is not necessarily the answer: A spicy tuna roll packs 461 calories. The average American consumes 50 gallons each year of sugar-sweetened beverages.

What causes Americans, especially, to become obese.

This Wall Street Journal article starts the discussion.

Nature and Nachos: How Fat Happens - WSJ.com

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