We all know that a combination of diet and exercise is important to good health and psychological well-being. If we only diet, we don’t get the cardiovascular and psychological benefits of exercise, and we run the risk of lowering our metabolic rate, making weight loss even harder. If we only Read more…
Just got a nice email from Blogged.com telling me that their editors had reviewed my blog and given it an 8.2 “great” rating in their Health category. I feel a little bit like a student again, as my site was “graded” using the following criteria: Frequency of updates (oops…that’s tough Read more…
Mother’s Day may be the most commercial of American holidays. Wikipedia says that Americans will spend $2.6 billion on flowers, $1.5 billion on “pampering gifts” and $68 million on greeting cards for the occasion. Americans are more likely to eat dinner at a restaurant on Mother’s Day than any other Read more…
All of us have had the experience of knowing that we’re not hungry, that we’re in fact full, but going ahead and eating anyway. In my experience, this usually happens when I have the opportunity to eat something unusually yummy. I typically don’t overeat my broccoli or salad. So this Read more…
On Monday, our Sensation Perception class followed up the jello study by investigating supertasters. There are a number of resources online that help you identify what kind of taster you are. So we did 5 different assessments to see if they would give us the same answers. One of my Read more…