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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Big Food’s Insane Weight Loss Program

A post today on Bruce Bradley’s blog entitled ‘Big Food’s Insane Weight Loss Program’ does a great job of outlining just how far off base the billion dollar diet industry really is. Even more unfortunate is that we, as a society, are buying it. He reviews three weight loss brands which have, sadly, become one […]

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The “Fat Trap” Article in the NY Times…Really?

An article printed last week in the NY Times discusses what the author refers to as a ‘Fat Trap’, and shares her own difficulties with being able to lose fat and keep it off. With phrases such as “that the biological cards were stacked against me from the start” and “a genetic predisposition for obesity”, […]

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