So Many Approaches…Who’s Right?

The China Study.  The Mediterranean Diet.  The Paleo Diet.  Who’s right?  It won’t be remotely surprising to anyone who knows my position which diet I’d naturally support but what about the research and science behind the other two methods?   I should mention that I chose these two approaches to compare to Paleo living only […]

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Food As A Reward? Bad Idea, Unless You’re A Dog.

Never fails to amaze me when I hear commentary about people ‘being good’ on their eating plan for a mere handful of days or weeks and then deciding to ‘reward’ themselves with a trip to the ice cream shoppe or pizza parlor. Is that any different from quitting smoking cigarettes and then deciding that once […]

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Progress on School Lunches?

Let me start by saying that apparently, pizza still counts as a vegetable.  Not kidding. “Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity”, begins a […]

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