For the Love of Food

by Darya Rose | Jan 9, 2015

For The Love of Food

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

This week an easy way to slow aging, the secret to changing your life, and the importance of a personal mission statement.

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Links of the week

What 2,000 Calories Looks Like <<Some geniuses over at the Times went and photographed 2,000 calories worth of food at a bunch of popular restaurants. I’m skeptical of a few of these (especially Subway), but it’s fascinating. (NY Times)
5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail (and What to Do About Them) <<I love this. A great blueprint for making changes in the new year. (James Clear)
Unearthed: How to get people to cook more? Get eaters to complain less. <<This is a very real problem, and one of the many reasons it’s so essential to pay attention to psychology when you’re trying to get healthy and lose weight. (Washington Post)
Finding the Motivation to Change Your Entire Life <<This is kind of amazing. (Zen Habits)
Creating a New Mission Statement <<Finding your WHY is essential for making permanent change. What’s your personal mission statement? Seriously, I’d love to know. Please share in the comments. (NY Times)
The No. 1 Way to Simplify Any Recipe <<Spot on advice. Love this. (Stone Soup)
Study Debunks Notion of ‘Healthy Obesity’ <<I’ve long been skeptical of the “healthy at any size” movement, since the focus seems to be singularly on metabolic health and ignores things like cancer that are also highly associated with body fat. It seems that time may be the critical factor. (Medline)
How Exercise Keeps Us Young <<Fascinating study showing that people who remain active into old age seem to preserve much more physiological function than sedentary individuals. That is, your activity level may determine how quickly you age. (NY Times)
Weeknight Vegetarian: Make 2015 the Year of Tempeh <<Do you know about tempeh? If not you should. I love it, and find just cooking in a little oil with some soy sauce is enough to make me happy. Or try this Foodist Approved recipe (Washington Post)
MARRAKESH CARROT SALAD <<How amazing does this sound?! (Sprouted Kitchen)

What inspired you this week?

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Tags: calories, Cooking, Exercise, habits, Health, mission statement, motivation, Obesity, Psychology, sedentary, tempeh

5 Responses to “For the Love of Food”

Anne says:

January 9, 2015 at 12:01 pm

Darya, I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! I eagerly wait for your For the love of Food report each Friday, keep the amazing information coming!! You’re the only blogger I follow because I can find it all in one place, besides you’re a top notch researcher with a PhD and nowadays I don’t trust info written by self proclaimed experts who don’t know how to properly interpret the literature. I love you and your work, and your writing, you make sense, you don’t bully people into believing a particular theory… and thanks so so so so much for being so generous with your knowledge and discoveries!

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- Darya Rose says:
  
  January 9, 2015 at 12:16 pm
  
  You’re welcome!! Thanks for the kind words 🙂
  
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Dave says:

January 9, 2015 at 7:22 pm

Hi, Darya.
The ‘mission statement’ idea is beneficial, but needs to be simple and short. Many years ago, I decided to write mine, and it is only two words. First, though, this is how I determined what it would be…
People used to write things on headstones to reflect what they thought of the person underneath. If it is to be ‘written in stone’, then it needs to be worthwhile. And, if you want people to write how you want to be remembered, then the hard part is actually living it.
I have spent decades in leadership roles, management, and in service roles. I spent months thinking of how I want to be remembered on my epitaph…not much room to chisel. I condensed, then further distilled it to two words: “He cared’.

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Guss Kuh says:

January 10, 2015 at 4:11 am

Hi Darya,

Great Post, Great info, Great blog.

I love it! 🙂

Thanks,

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Jules says:

January 12, 2015 at 4:07 pm

Great list as always Darya!
Glad you liked my Simplifying post
Jx

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