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.
This week high-fat diet protects the brain, age is a mindset, and how to control cravings like a Jedi.
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Links of the week
- What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? <<Really cool article about the power of psychology to impact your health. If you geek out on this stuff like I do, you’ll love this one. (NY Times)
- Health Tip: Find Purpose in Life <<Yet another incredibly powerful piece on the impact of your mental state on your ability to be healthy (The Atlantic)
- Thinking about the long-term impact of your food choices may help control food cravings <<Have trouble making good food decisions in the heat of the moment? Instead of thinking about how tasty it would be, try thinking about what it will do to you in the long-run. These are not the cookies you are looking for. (ScienceDaily)
- The loopholes that help bad habits block happiness <<I love Gretchen Rubin’s work (The Happiness Project), and she has tremendous insight into what stops you from doing the things you outwardly say you really want to do, like exercise more or eat better. As usual, it’s how you look at it. (LA Times)
- The 10 Rules of Successful Exercise <<I love these tips on how to turn exercise from a chore into something that makes your life awesome. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- High-fat diet postpones brain aging in mice <<Still feeling virtuous about that lowfat yogurt?? (ScienceDaily)
- Are You Sacrificing Your Health? <<Are you making excuses to put your health after work or family? Maybe it is time to reexamine your priorities. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- BPA exposure by infants may increase later risk of food intolerance <<This certainly needs more research, but it’s a fascinating hypothesis isn’t it? (ScienceDaily)
- Small steps everyone can take to arrive at greater joy <<So simple, yet so powerful. (LA Times)
- Coffee-Braised Lamb Shanks <<OMG. This is what winter cooking is all about. (David Lebovitz)
What inspired you this week?
I love all the work you put into these weekly posts. Thank you, I learn so much from these reads. =]
In “What If Age,” Grierson writes that Langer “imagines a day when blame is not the first thing people reach for when things go awry.” I find this helpful.
Thank you for all the helpful links. It’s always great to find a blog that sources all of this stuff for us, to give one place to go to find all that’s great and necessary for a healthy life!