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For the Love of Food
by Darya Rose | Sep 4, 2015
For the Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week learn how to avoid a cold, motivate yourself for exercise, and stop procrastinating.
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Links of the week
- Short Sleepers May Catch More Colds <<There are many reasons to get enough sleep, but not losing a week with a cold is a pretty powerful motivation. (NY Times)
- Why Getting Fit Isn’t the Best Exercise Motivation (and 10 Better Reasons to Move Today) <<This is absolutely true. Find a deep personal reason to exercise if you want to stick with it. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- Myths About Microwaves <<As a proponent of Real Food, I often get lumped in with the alternative medicine camp. That doesn’t bother me until they get all anti-science and scaremongerish about harmless tools like microwave ovens. Thanks Monica for laying the rational smack down. (Nutrition Over Easy)
- To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved <<Do you avoid doing stuff you know you should do and theoretically want to do? What are you avoiding, exactly, and why? (WSJ)
- Does Exercise Change Your Brain? <<From what I’ve seen the evidence is a bit stronger than stated in this article. One thing is for sure, exercise certainly doesn’t hurt your brain. And there are dozens of other benefits. (NY Times)
- 6 Things To STOP Doing If You Want To Lose Weight <<In one form or another all these tips come down to this: STOP torturing yourself. It really is counterproductive. (mindbodygreen)
- Five Mind Tricks That’ll Make Your Food “Taste” Better <<I love mind hacks like this. These tips are especially useful when you’re trying to feed “healthy” food to people who think they don’t like it (they usually just don’t like the word). (Lifehacker)
- Lifetime Peak Weight and the Risks of Obesity <<The risks of gaining too much weight are complex and subtle, but they certainly exist. Healthy at any size isn’t the whole story. (Weighty Matters)
- 10 Food Pairings That Make Surprising Nutritional Sense <<I love this, especially since these food pairings so often appear in our traditions and cultural wisdom. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- Vaghareli Makai (Spiced Indian Corn) <<I’ve never seen a recipe like this before, and it looks like something that would be super popular as a snack or finger food. (David Lebovitz)
What inspired you this week?
I found the lifetime peak weight article so interesting and so depressing. The way he structured his study and the comparison to smoking made lots of sense. At the same time as someone who has struggled with obesity and lost weight multiple times only to gain it back I got this feeling of being “tainted”. Like no matter how well I do from here on out I will always have the negative effects of my prior obesity in me.
It would be interesting to see the same research in 3 groups – normal weight all their lives, previously obese but have been at normal weight for at least some period of time (5 yrs? 10 yrs?) and recent history of obesity
I think his research was interesting in the way it teased apart the variables, but I don’t think it means that you can never be healthy again if you’ve been overweight. There is huge benefits from weight loss no matter how late in life. Keep your chin up 🙂
Hi just wanted to comment on the article about procrastination which can impact negatively on lots of different levels- it’s excellent starting point for getting to the bottom of why some people are almost immobilised by it ( my son) and what approach to getting past it thanks Darya.