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An RD's Monday message
This morning on Twitter:
"Still have football on your mind? This Pesto Pizza bursts w/ flavor! http://bit.ly/wZDUHt"
I was a little confused, so I ask you: Who does this more sound like, a registered dietitian or a TV chef? I dunno, maybe it's just the headline.
Sassy, nutrition-motivated non-vending machine
Whimsical, certainly.
Sugar revolutionaries
In an editorial published [Wednesday] in the journal Nature, University of California at San Francisco doctors Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis argue that the ballooning rates — and costs — of obesity, diabetes, and other diseases, mean it’s time for regulators to lump sugar into the same category as booze and cigarettes and put similar restrictions on its sale and availability. — ABC News
Sage words on sugar addiction
Jill Escher, author of "Goodbye, Club Perma-Chub," includes 10 tips to overcome sugar addiction during a podcast interview by Erin Chamerlik (Get Better Wellness).
I've written about Jill before, and expect I will again. She is a voice of informed reason.
Gaps in a "registered" education
When I published my broadside yesterday about registered dietitians, I said that it reflected views I’d held for a while but that they’d boiled over in the past little while.
Ask an RD: What do they know?
Based on my early experience with them, and on what I've heard from others of their experiences, I have long held opprobrium for registered dietitians. But it has recently bubbled over again.
Yoni Freedhoff and the Georgia obesity ads
I've already touched twice on the anti-obesity campaign in Georgia, and I'm not sorry for anything I've said. But its return to uproar prompted by the National Eating Disorder Association also brought comment from Dr.
Graphical portrayal of important questions
I ran across this graphic at Huffington Post under Darya Pino's byline. It's cute, expressing certain, increasingly prevalent truths under the piece's headline, "Is It Food?" This is not a comical diversion; it's a key question of our age.
On the shift from child to parent, tread lightly
In our home, the stairs to the second floor rise on one wall of my son's bedroom, and the hall to my bedroom follows another. So especially when he's near the beginning or end of his slumber, I try to walk lightly.
When I was young (though much older than he is now), I had a different reason to step quietly on stairs at night: Typically, I was en route to or from an illicit trip to the kitchen, seeking to eat in secret what I knew I'd be faulted for if my parents knew.
Food addiction shows up on "Dr. Oz"
On the "Dr. Oz" episode on food addiction that ran this week, the news for my peeps and I was good, generally. More than three times as many respondents to an online poll said they think they might be addicted to food than those who said they don’t think they are. And by a ratio of more than 3-1, respondents consider food addiction as serious as addictions to drugs and alcohol.
"It’s not sustainable until it’s put into law."
Welcome to another edition of 10 Words or Less, in which I ask brief questions and request brief answers from interesting people. Today’s participant is cofounder and executive director of NYSHEPA, which “advocates for policies and practices that improve the nutritional and physical activity environment in New York State.” Please, no counting! “10 words” is a goal, not a rule, and besides, let’s see you do it.
No such thing as a "good reason" to act out
A friend and fellow food addict called the other day to lament his latest lost eating battle and I asked him to tell me what had happened. But when he started by telling me how he’d been feeling that morning, I interrupted.
I didn’t want to know about his feelings, or the argument he’d had with his wife, or about the crack in the sidewalk he’d stepped on. I just wanted to know, specifically, what he’d eaten that was causing his agita.
Pilot program may test using SNAP at CSAs
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid could use the money to join CSAs under a pilot project suggested by US Rep. James McGovern Saturday during the winter meeting of the state chapter of Northeast Organic Farming Association.
No Farm Bill this year?
US Rep. Jim McGovern, a member of the House Agriculture Committee who represents Central Mass., isn’t enthusiastic about the prospects for a Farm Bill, which is ordinarily debated and passed in five-year increments and is due for action this year.
But that’s good news, he told partisans gathered over lunch Saturday during the winter meeting of the state chapter of Northeast Organic Farming Association.
Nestle, Pingree headline Boston Food Bill teach-in
The first "Let's Talk About Food" event of 2012 is a whopper: Marian Nestle, the well-deserved queen of food commentary, and US Rep Chellie Pingree, one of Congress's food-policy leaders, highlight the bill.
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2-6 p.m.
Museum of Science, Boston
Free tickets: Museum website (wait list)
More info: www.letstalkaboutfood.com
Another front in the food addiction fight
Via my friend Jill Escher, I read this piece by David Bender on cravingsugar.net and wanted to pass it along. Though our backgrounds are fairly dissimilar, we’re brothers from his very first sentence, in which he says, “my goal is to raise awareness of food addiction.”
Go big
This squib from the Physician's Briefing website reflects some broad truths, considering it results from a survey of peoiple at risk for diabetes in Finland: Excerpts:
"Only 36 percent of at-risk men and 52 percent of at-risk women perceived the need for lifestyle counseling. ... Of those individuals who perceived the need for counseling, 35 percent refused to participate." About a third of the people who agreed to participate never showed up even once.
It's *still* not shaming, to me
This time, it's the National Eating Disorders Association targeting a campaign against child obesity in Georgia.
Back in April, it was the website Sociological Images, attacking the same campaign for the same reason, that it shames children. This morning's press release leads off...
It's not just a word, it's an addiction
When I advocate for food addiction, I often encounter rank derision about the idea, especially when the commenters can remain anonymous. As I’ve expressed before (borrowed from my clever friend Marty Lerner), their attitude is, “what’s next, air addiction?”
Weasuring
So let’s talk about “weasuring,” another word that doesn’t exist but easily could; it mashes together “weighing” and “measuring,” which is often how I portion my meals, with cup and scale. I do this, even into my 21st year of maintaining a three-figure weight loss, because, simply, it works for me. (Explaining why would be a whole other post, which I may nor may not also write, but not here.)