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American Heart Association Weighs in on Sugar Intake →

Americans eat way too much, it says, a whopping 22 teaspoons a day on average.

Whoah.

Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin →

The basic problem is that while it’s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn’t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder.

This is a theory that sounds strange yet logical. I’m not agreeing, but I do see the logic, and I do think that exercise is vitally important to our well–being, especially in modern times like these we live in, when we use more and more various ways of transportation instead of our two feet like we used to in the past.

What to Eat and What to Avoid at Chain Restaurants →

Eat This, Not That! put 66 major chain restaurants under the nutritional microscope—so that you and your family can continue to eat out, but do so knowing the types of insider tips and savvy strategies that can help melt fat all year long.

Burger King puts ~160 calories of mayo on just about anything. Wow. (via.)

The Steve Ward Diet →

You draw a line from the current weight/date to the desired weight/date. Every morning you weigh yourself and plot the result. If the point is below the line, you eat whatever you want all day. If the point is above the line, you eat nothing but broccoli or some other low-calorie food.

For some reason this is probably the only diet that makes sense to me. I’ve personally lost quite a bit of weight by simply watching what I ate, and generally eating less.

Meat vs. Veggie: From Depression to Infertility, How Your Choice of Diet Can Wreak Havoc on Your Health →

I just can’t help but notice how much the illnesses caused by these two diets differ.

Meat eaters:

• arthritis,
• gallstones,
• alzheimer’s,
• osteoporosis,
• food poisoning.

Vegetarians:

• infertility,
• dental erosion,
• depression,
• muscle atrophy.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural →

The point is this: Thousands of years ago when we were hunter-gatherers, we may have needed a bit of meat in our diets in times of scarcity, but we don’t need it now.

I’m hoping not to start another flame war on this age–old debate, but I really agree with the thought that we learned to eat meat, and that we essentially don’t need it. People usually like meat because of the way it tastes once it’s cooked and seasoned, I don’t know a lot of people who kill for their meat and eat it raw.

8 Great Family-Friendly Foods that Help Fight Cancer →

I had never understood before how vital food was for protecting the body from sickness and disease.

Cheryl Crow on the importance of how and what we eat and how it affects us and our children, and our health long term. (via)

Vegan Before Dinnertime →

All day long, he eats a vegan diet. But after about 6 p.m., anything goes.

Tara Parker-Pope on Mark Bittman’s habit of eating only vegan food before 6pm. Brilliant.

What Food, Inc. Can Teach Us About How We Treat Animals →

[…] when I watched this scene with an audience, I looked around to see that the vast majority of the crowd reacts viscerally: grimacing, covering eyes, wincing, looking away.

Make sure you go through the bullet points at the end of the article outlining major counter–effects of our current dietary habits and why they need to change.

Debunking 10 Myths About Dieting →

It doesn’t matter what time of day you eat. It is what and how much you eat and how much physical activity you do during the whole day that determines whether you gain, lose, or maintain your weight.

A run–down of some popular beliefs when it comes to dieting.

How I came to Good Food →

I remember one of my last McDonald’s burgers — first year in the East Bay, boyfriend and I at Micky Ds. He orders two Big Macs and acts like its no big deal. I realize that these things are contributing to our growing girth; that I was on my way to becoming a big, fat person. That initial realization took a while, but it led to an entirely new life.

Jen Dalton on how she came to realize there’s something wrong with what and how we eat.

Eat Low Carbon Diet Calculator →

Is your lunch causing global warming? Take the quiz and find out.