For the Love of Food
by Darya Rose | Feb 28, 2014

For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week the nutrition labels get a facelift, an essential guide to habit building, and how to optimize your interval training.
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Links of the week
- New F.D.A. Nutrition Labels Would Make ‘Serving Sizes’ Reflect Actual Servings <<Wow. Nutrition labels may actually start to become useful. Though you should still focus on the ingredients list first. (NY Times)
- 36 Lessons I’ve Learned About Habits <<Working on reshaping your habits? (I always am). Here’s a motherload of excellent advice. (Zen Habits)
- Twenty: Cooking with Your Kids <<I don’t have kids, but I bought this book immediately after reading this, just for the basic cooking skills. (Ruhlman)
- Brazil’s new dietary guidelines: food-based! <<Brazil wins for most enlightened health advice. I’m really impressed. (Food Politics)
- Why Milk Wants You to Drink More Delicious Protein <<They’re killing the Got Milk campaign, but that doesn’t mean the dairy industry has given up on taking your money. Remember two things: 1) industrial milk is a highly processed food, and 2) this is about marketing, not your health. (The Atlantic)
- How to Get Fit in a Few Minutes a Week <<Some interesting new science on high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Seems there is such thing as too much. (NY Times)
- Playing Tetris Can Reduce Urges to Eat, Smoke, Drink <<This science isn’t particularly strong at this point, but as a video game lover I couldn’t help but share. (The Atlantic)
- Vitamin E, Selenium Supplements Might Double Chances of Prostate Cancer <<Be careful with those supplements, everyone. Don’t take more than you need. (Medline)
- Put an Egg On It: My Favorite Way to Make a Meal Out of Nothing <<This is on page one of my personal healthstyle playbook. (The Kitchn)
- Green Curry Porridge Recipe <<I’ve never seen a recipe like this, but it looks completely amazing. (101 Cookbooks)
What inspired you this week?
AWESOME list of websites and articles there. Thanks for sharing. I discovered your site last week and got inspired to make an effort to cook at home. So far so good 🙂 I picked up some healthy fresh veg and fruits as well as some meats. Cooking a NY steak tonight for the first time and then will slice it up to go over salads for the week. Mmmmm…I also volunteer at an incredible organization called FoodShare, a non-profit organization with a vision of good healthy food for all.
I’m volunteering in the compost section and learning SO much. I’m so inspired that I want to begin my own worm bin at home and create vermicompost 🙂 Hoping to start a window sill garden and have fresh herbs for cooking.
Ahhhh. Exciting stuff.
Best!
Loie
Hi Darya!
I totally agree that milk is a highly processed industrial product that contributes negligible nutritional value in a person’s daily diet. However- I do include organic full fat yogurt on a fairly regular basis and feel there are some beneficial (most probiotic) reasons for doing so. What is your take on yogurt in light of the questionable US practices of producing milk?
I try to find the least industrial yogurt I can. It’s usually quite expensive.