As a confirmed mindless eater (who knows better than to go to buffets, salad bars, and all-you-can-eat restaurants), I applaud Brian Wansink’s new initiative…the Mindless Method. As one of their banners proclaims, “the best diet is the diet you don’t know you’re on.” In other words, to keep your weight Read more…
Nicholas Christakis has a lot to say about the importance of the company we keep. Not only do your friends’ smoking and eating habits affect your own, but their loneliness and drinking habits do as well. Christakis and his colleagues note that if you are directly connected with a person Read more…
While updating some writing on eating disorders, I realized that I had some contradictory data. In a section on obesity, I used some WebMD data on the number of calories in some restaurant meals. Among the cited meals was the Cheesecake Factory’s chicken and biscuit meal, at an incredible 2,500 Read more…
I consider myself a scientist, not a conspiracy theorist, and as compelling as the correlational data between the rise in HFCS and obesity appeared, the food industry continued to reassure everybody that HFCS was “just another sugar” and not responsible for the fattening of America. So it was with considerable Read more…
Along the same theme as my previous blog post, our family was asked to participate in an interview with our local NBC affiliate for a segment on New Year’s Resolutions. We received a phone call from our Jenny Craig Centre director, asking us if we would be willing to do Read more…