For The Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

This week “clean eating” gets the boot, exercise snacks control blood sugar, and why nutrition is so %&* confusing.

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Links of the week

• Stop Describing Your Diet as “Clean Eating” <<I wrote a few weeks ago about how “heart healthy” foods don’t do us any good. Here’s another insightful piece about the dangers of moralizing food choices. (Slate)
• Why There’s So Much Confusion Over Health and Nutrition <<This is way more thorough than I would have expected from Lifehacker. Definitely worth a read if you find nutrition messages to be confusing. (Lifehacker)
• Exercise ‘Snacks’ to Control Blood Sugar <<Bite-sized exercise nuggets may be equally if not more effective than longer exercise sessions, especially for blood sugar control. (NY Times)
• How to Change Your Beliefs and Stick to Your Goals for Good <<I love this way of addressing the limiting beliefs that hold you back from changing your habits. (James Clear)
• ‘Fed Up’ Asks, Are All Calories Equal? <<I don’t typically like to mention films I haven’t yet seen, but I trust most of the people associated with this film and it is definitely a topic I want to see more people discussing. Watch the trailer and decide for yourself if the movie is worth watching. (NY Times)
• Exercise Crucial for Women’s Heart Health After 30, Study Finds <<Yet another study shows that not exercising is worse than smoking for long-term health. (Medline)
• Docs! Please Stop Telling Patients How Many Pounds They Need to Lose! <<When a doctor tells you to lose 40 lbs you go home and do it, right? Love this call out from Yoni Freedhoff for doctors to be more prescriptive. (Weighty Matters)
• Meditation without the bells, whistles and Buddhas in West L.A. <<If I lived in West LA I’d be all over this action. (LA Times)
• The Best Way to Make Easy-to-Peel Boiled Eggs: Give Them a Hot Start <<Finally somebody figured out the age-old mystery of how to get hardboiled eggs cleanly out of their shells. (Lifehacker)
• How To Make Couscous Out of Cauliflower <<Cauliflower, is there anything it can’t do? (The Kitchn)

What inspired you this week?