For The Love of Food

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

This week the truth about calories, the magic of broth, and why weight loss requires more than Real Food.

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Links of the week

• 7 Common Calorie Myths We Should All Stop Believing <<People LOVE to oversimplify nutrition, and the perpetual echo chamber about the role of calories in weight loss is particularly irritating. Props to Mark Sisson for calling BS on these common calorie myths. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
• Lack of exercise responsible for twice as many early deaths as obesity <<Whaaaa??? It’s an observational study, so it can only tell us so much. But there is a lot of other data supporting the need for physical activity. (ScienceDaily)
• SITTING TOO MUCH? DO THIS. <<If that last article scared you, this should help. (Dr. Weil)
• Bones, Broth, Bliss <<I love that broth is reemerging into popular health culture. It’s such a wonderful thing. (NY Times)
• From Desire to Reality: Why Setting Goals Is Critical for Success <<The essential steps to following through on your goals and forming new habits. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
• What Michael Pollan Gets Wrong About Losing Weight <<It makes me so happy when people think harder and discuss the nuances of reality. Real Food is step one, but there is more to losing weight than embracing whole foods. (The Kitchn)
• Why Chipotle’s pork problem is a bad sign for its future <<While I still wouldn’t say that I enjoy eating at Chipotle (I have twice, it was OK but not great), I have mad respect for them for maintaining integrity at this scale. I hope they can keep it up. (Washington Post)
• Joint Pain, From the Gut <<Some new research has linked rheumatoid arthritis to gut bacteria. I’m really excited to see where the microbiome research takes our understanding of health over the next few decades. (The Atlantic)
• How To Make Soup from Almost Any Vegetable <<Soup is so underrated. All of us should be making more of it. (The Kitchn)
• Ayocote Bean & Mushroom Salad Recipe <<Yum!!! Gimme. (101 Cookbooks)

What inspired you this week?