Health
Habits
Food
Weight 
Better Than Butternut: Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe
10 Simple Ways To Eat Less Without Noticing
Juicing: Stupid and Pretentious or Nourishing and Enlightening?
10 Tasty Carbs That Won’t Make You Fat
How To Start Working Out When You Don’t Like To Exercise
Focus More on Your Brain and Less on Your Diet if You’re Serious About Losing Weight
Home Court Habits: The Secret to Effortless Weight Control
10 Reasons You Aren’t Losing Weight When You Think You’re Doing Everything Right
How To Burn More Calories Without Breaking A Sweat
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Foodists
For the Love of Food
For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
Before we get started I want to let you know about an exciting new project I’ve been working on.
To help you jumpstart your fall cooking habit I’ve partnered with PlateJoy to deliver the ingredients for some of my favorite Summer Tomato recipes right to your door. PlateJoy will deliver a week’s worth of ingredients for the recipes of your choice (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks) so you can easily create healthy and delicious meals at home.
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Now on to our regularly schedule links….
This week walking decreases negative impact of fructose, Xanax linked to Alzheimer’s disease, and cooking tips I wish I knew in college.
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Links of the week
- Drink Soda? Take 12,000 Steps <<Interesting new research about how low-intensity exercise and movement can counter some of the negative affects of an unhealthy diet. I told you so. (NY Times)
- Eating habits, body fat related to differences in brain chemistry <<Some new evidence that our eating behaviors are rooted in our brains, particularly the areas involved in habits. (NIH)
- Rajio Taiso: Why You Should Start Doing Light Morning Workouts <<I’ve never heard of this before, but I like the idea. Particularly if you have trouble getting more formal exercise into your life. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- Sleeping on animal fur in infancy found to reduce risk of asthma <<Sharing this mainly because I find it interesting how many small, seemingly pointless habits our ancestors may have possessed that actually contributed health benefits. Sleeping on fur? Who knew. (ScienceDaily)
- BIGGEST RISK FACTOR FOR HEART DISEASE IN WOMEN OVER 30? <<I guessed wrong. How about you? (Dr. Weil)
- 11 Things We Wish We Had Known About Cooking in College <<I started cooking (barely) toward the tail end of college. Oh how I wish I had known these things earlier. (The Kitchn)
- Anxiety Medications May Be Tied to Alzheimer’s Risk <<Sharing this because I know way too many people who use Xanax recreationally and to reduce the symptoms of hangover. Be careful, my friends. (Medline)
- Potassium-rich foods cut stroke, death risks among older women <<Translation: vegetables reduce stroke, death risks among older women. (AHA)
- HARVEST TACOS <<I’m finally coming to terms with the end of summer and beginning of fall. Yum. (The Year In Food)
What inspired you this week?
I just don’t understand people who have stuff delivered instead of doing their own shopping. No we don’t have that stuff around these parts. Only places like SF and La La land. LOL Where the pretty people live.
feel free to delete my comment, it’s only a personal rant.
I have some produce delivered. We have a similar service to Plate Joy called Door to Door organic where I live. I call it a hybrid CSA. It has gotten me to try new produce but if there is something I know I hate or I just don’t used a lot of I can substitute it out.
Shopping with my work and workout schedule can be a PITA honestly. As it is I often don’t start making dinner until 7pm and I don’t always have time on the weekend to shop as well.
Oh it’s it hybrid CSA because I get the bitty farm box every 2 weeks. I could order almost all my food from there but I normally stick to produce.
Spud.ca is going nationwide in Canada and I can’t say enough about organic food delivery service. My dtr wanted to juice intermittently. I could not keep up with the shopping and carrying of boat loads of produce to do this for three people so began to use delivery. Now it is convienient for other things offered as well. I share the ordering with her and allow her to continue to shop online with me. I am proud of my family that ASKS FOR SPINACH! I am happy the world of young and old have made our planet amazing with knowlege and real change inside and out. Darya, you are our next rock stars for a better world!
I believe in good home cooking, just that I have the luxury of time. But these home delivered foods are such lifesavers, I bet.