The CDC has issued some pretty scary statistics when it comes to kids in the U.S. and health: Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years who are obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010. The percentage of adolescents ...Read More...
A recent nutrition headline popped out at me: "Going on a diet will make you irritable and angry." This is news? According to researchers, having to exert the self-control needed to skip favorite foods is more likely to make people easily irritated and gravitate to angry messages in the media instead of milder ones. If you've ever ...Read More...
Checking in on March's Just One Change: measuring what you eat. Why? Because it's impossible to know if you're eating the right amount until you do. I know, I know - you're really good at estimating. Humor me, won't you, and pull out some measuring cups. Write down how much you're eating and compare that ...Read More...
How's your holiday eating? Are you staying on track and enjoying the occasional splurge or is it more like a free-for-all? While it's true that the holidays are just once a year, they're a big part of the year. Plus it can be harder to lose any weight gained, especially if your exercise decreases because of ...Read More...
Weight gain is a real concern during holidays. I'll let you in on a little secret: eating until you burst on a holiday is not the problem. Eating anything we want every day is. What we tend to do when faced with a string of food-related holidays is let our everyday eating get off-track. We succumb to the ...Read More...
Navigating The Office Temptations If you haven't noticed them already, you will soon. I'm talking about tempting treats brought in by well-meaning coworkers and customers. Maybe it's homemade cookies or bowls of colorfully-wrapped chocolates. Whatever they are, you can be sure they're high in calories and low in nutrition (have you ever noticed that no one ...Read More...
Is your calendar filled with parties this time of year? Mine is, and that can be stressful from an eating point of view. I'm not just concerned about gaining weight, I also don't feel great when I eat cocktail party food several nights in a row. And yet I still want to enjoy myself. Whether ...Read More...
It's almost Thanksgiving - probably the biggest meal of the year. How are you feeling? Excited? Nervous? Hoping that your pants fit the next day? I'll let you in on a little secret: no one day's meals will make or break your weight management efforts. Not even Thanksgiving. Sure, the scale will be up the next ...Read More...
