In honor of my tenth month of Jenny Craig maintenance, of course we have to have a dieting post. I’m happy to say that in the last ten months, my weight has stayed within a five pound range, and I never got higher that one pound below my goal weight, holidays included. I like that. Read more…
I haven’t posted about hunger/weight loss for awhile, but in honor of my tenth month of weight loss maintenance, I thought I’d share two new articles that crossed my desk today. The first, by Kaveh Ashfrafi and his colleagues at UC San Francisco, looked at the effects of serotonin on appetite Read more…
As a second-generation American on my father’s side, I still feel relatively close to the immigrant experience. Consequently, research on the impact of immigration usually catches my attention. I had heard about Robert Putnam’s work on diversity and communities, and had been meaning to read it for a long time, but Read more…