Ultra-processed foods are in the news. If you haven’t heard about this yet, ultra-processed foods have ingredients that aren’t usually found by themselves in kitchens, like high fructose corn syrup or emulsifiers. Among the things that are usually classified as ultra-processed are sodas, packaged snacks (chips, cookies, crackers, etc.), packaged Read more…
I’m embarrassed to see the one year gap between my last post and now. I’m making a concerted effort to be more diligent going forward. My last post was occasioned by the closing of the bricks and mortar Jenny Craig centers, including the one I had visited for 17 years. Read more…
My family does not consume high fructose corn syrup, as far as we know, which takes considerable effort. The stuff is literally in everything, including Baby Tylenol. To avoid high fructose corn syrup, we try to make as much food as possible from scratch. Otherwise, we are serious label readers! Read more…
I am the first to admit that I have a sweet tooth. I do not understand people who say that something is “too sweet.” That concept completely eludes me (with the exception of anything with artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup, which I carefully avoid). So I read with Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: what dieting tells about how you keep the weight off “This study examined the relationship between previous dietary adherence during a low-calorie diet weight loss intervention and subsequent weight change during a 2-year follow-up for weight maintenance.” you can smell vibrating molecules? “How Read more…