For The Love of Food

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

This week the FDA finally gets tough on antibiotics, how to stop exercise from sucking, and why diet pills can cause weight gain.

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Links of the week

• FDA Puts Antibiotics for Food Animals Under Vet’s Supervision <<This is HUGE. I hope it ends up dramatically reducing the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics on big farms. We’ll see. (Medline)
• Too Lazy To Work Out? Try Temptation Bundling <<One of the most important things you can do when you’re struggling with a new habit is to make it a rewarding experience. If that means only getting on the elliptical to watch Game of Thrones, so be it. (Nerd Fitness)
• Forgetting the Pain of Exercise <<And one of the reasons you want to have rewarding experiences when you’re doing something new? It helps you forget the parts of it that suck. (NY Times)
• The bizarre thing that happens when people take diet drugs <<I always thought diet pills were dangerous, but I didn’t realize people actually gain weight when taking them sometimes. The reason? They use it as a justification to make worse health decisions. Health = a set of behaviors, not a number on the scale. Please don’t conflate the two. (Washington Post)
• When It Comes to Lifestyle Change, Timing Matters <<Feeling shame for not being able to do all you need to do to be healthy today is not productive. Do what you have to do, when you can. (Weighty Matters)
• Fructose contributes to weight gain, physical inactivity, and body fat, researchers find <<Very interesting, though ditching processed food and exercising regularly solves both the fructose and the unhealthy problems regardless. (ScienceDaily)
• Why the worst time to drink coffee is actually in the morning <<Interesting analysis of how coffee interacts with our natural cortisol cycles (aka circadian rhythms). Not enough to convince me to give up my morning coffee ritual though. (Washington Post)
• How to Cook Once and Eat All Week (without getting bored) <<One of my staple Home Court Habits. (Stone Soup)
• The Most Likely Reason Your Rice Turned Out Mushy (And How to Avoid It) <<This totally blew my mind. (Lifehacker)
• Recipe: April Bloomfield’s Steamed and Raw Radish Salad with Kimchi and Sesame <<It’s like all my favorite things came together in salad form. (The Kitchn)

What inspired you this week?