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For the Love of Food
by Darya Rose | Sep 27, 2013
For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week the psychology of why diets fail, the amazing audacity of sugar industry ads and the $12 caveman burger.
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Links of the week
- The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less <<In Foodist I argue that psychology is one of the biggest reasons diets fail. Seems others are noticing too, and the phenomenon affects far more than food. (New York Times)
- Cavemen Ate $12 Burgers: A Historical Perspective on Food Prices <<Spending more money on food isn’t necessarily elitist, historically it’s very normal. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- One Of The Biggest Con Jobs In Advertising History <<Are you getting enough sugar to get your weight down? LOL, these ads made by the sugar industry over the years are hysterical (though I oddly agree with them). (Buzzfeed)
- Press Release of the Week: Posted Without Comment <<I didn’t realize Wonderbread had gone away, but apparently it’s back. (New York Times)
- Is Your Feeding Style Cramping Your Child’s Eating? <<Fascinating article about how (not what) to feed your kids to develop healthy eating habits. (Weighty Matters)
- Brain Cannot Be Fooled by Artificial Sweeteners; Higher Likelihood of Sugar Consumption Later <<Some new biology explaining why artificial sweeteners are pointless. (ScienceDaily)
- How to bring 12 kinds of vegetables back to life <<Great tips to revive wilted veggies. (Washington Post)
- The date on your food package is meaningless <<Well, not exactly. But if you’re confused by them (as most people are) this is informative. (Treehugger)
- How Can I Eat Well While Working from Home? <<Some great advice on keeping it healthy while working at home. (Lifehacker)
- Turmeric Tea Recipe <<I’m a huge fan of turmeric tea. The black pepper helps enhance the health properties of the turmeric. (101 Cookbooks)
What inspired you this week?
I knew fake sugar tended to have that effect on me. When I was skinny, and using Nutrasweet, I kept craving more and more.. finally looked at how much I was using and said no. I’m wondering, though, if there is more sugar, now, per ounce, in commercial sodas, than there was even in the 1980s. I suspect everything has gotten sweeter… I don’t remember things like nutella being as sweet when I was a child. (granted, I grew up abroad, so maybe there were different formulations even then).