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For the Love of Food
by Darya Rose | Mar 21, 2014
For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week saturated fat is exonerated (again), a simple trick to motivate yourself to exercise, and how dad’s diet affects baby’s health.
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Links of the week
- Is saturated fat a problem? Food for debate. <<Yet another meta-analysis (review of many studies) concludes that saturated fat isn’t significantly linked to heart disease. Can we please stop saying that things low in fat are healthier? Please?? (Food Politics)
- Harnessing the Power of Self-Identity <<Please read this, it’s really important. It will also give you a hint as to why I called my book Foodist instead of How to Get Healthy and Lose Weight. What is your self-identity? (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a medical conspiracy theory <<No, vaccines don’t cause autism, the government isn’t suppressing alternative cancer treatments, and the CIA didn’t create HIV. Seriously guys, let’s stick with science. (LA Times)
- Positive memories of exercise spur future workouts <<Want to exercise more often? Just take a moment to remember a time when you actually enjoyed a workout. (ScienceDaily)
- Michelle Obama moves into the kitchen to fight obesity <<From the garden, to the playground, to the kitchen. I love it. (Washington Post)
- One out of two parents do not see their child’s weight problem <<This is really disturbing. Although I’m happy that people are starting to question dieting and unhealthy body images, I worry that big is the new normal and we are swinging too far in an unhealthy direction. (ScienceDaily)
- Teen Blogger Joshua Weissman Shares 5 Recipes Your High Schooler Will Want to Cook (and Eat!) <<A fascinating approach to getting teens excited about healthy eating, straight from the horses mouth. (The Kitchn)
- DAD’S DIET KEY FOR HEALTHY KIDS <<Time for dads to start on prenatal (or at least pre-conception) vitamins? Maybe. Or at least a healthier diet. (Dr. Weil)
- On Actually Using My Cookbooks <<As someone who is downright terrible at opening her collection of amazing cookbooks, this really inspired me. (The Kitchn)
- Giant Lemon Fennel Beans Recipe <<It’s settled. I just started soaking my beans and this is on the menu for dinner. (101 Cookbooks)
What inspired you this week?
Regarding the inability to recognize overweight in their own children, I am hearing this more and more among people I know about their kids, themselves, other people, heck, even their pets!
I know someone who is obese and needs to lose approximately 90-100 pounds to be at a healthy weight (per this person’s physician, not just in my opinion), and yet refers to themselves as “a little plump” and “needs to lose a couple of pounds.” That could just be defensive behevior, but this person also acts horrified at how “skinny” people are around us: usually healthy, fit women — sometimes even women I’d say could drop a few pounds and still be healthy.
I have a huge cookbook collection and recently subscribed to a web page program call EAT YOUR BOOK. It has been the best thing to get use out of your cookbooks. Basically you sign up and create a library of all your cookbooks you have at home and it indexes them. So when your searching for recipe ideas, for instance a lasagna recipe, it shows me all the books in my collection which has a lasagna recipie. It also shows you the ingredients in each recipe. 🙂 it’s brilliant I use it at least 4-5 times a week. Also great when you have a key ingrediant and you want some ideas on how to use it in a recipe. 🙂
I recommit to trying one day per week cooking new recipes. So I’ll actually use my cook books
Yeah …and I always tell people I NEVER entered the kitchen until i realized I had to cook the meals that would help me loose weight- like Michelle I was never encouraged to do domestic chores…
Saturated fat is bad, saturated fat is good….. What I know is that butter is very good 🙂
I like your blog a lot but the science your referring to when you are discussing vaccines is a pseudo science. Why is it the same pharma companies that bring out all this new drugs and several years later are sued because their products caused severe harm to individuals but thier vaccine products we are supposte to believe are safe? There is plenty of evidence out there that vaccines do cause Autism. A court in Italy has declared it and look into the case of Hannah Polling. The father is a Neuroscientist and if you read past all the double speak it basically says the vaccine caused Encephalopathy and Encephalopathy lead to Autism.