FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD: Exercise actually can help you lose weight, CA bans soda taxes, and pollution causes diabetes
by Darya Rose | Jul 6, 2018
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week exercise actually can help you lose weight, CA bans soda taxes, and pollution causes diabetes.
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Links of the week
- The Science on Weight and Health – Excellent summary of the science related to health and body weight. If you’re new to this subject or aren’t familiar with the science behind health recommendations, this is a wonderful place to start. (Self)
- California, of All Places, Has Banned Soda Taxes. How a New Industry Strategy Is Succeeding. – The strategy? Extortion. This is disgraceful. (NY Times)
- A Frightening New Reason to Worry About Air Pollution – The numbers here are astounding. Just wow. (The Atlantic)
- Exercise May Aid in Weight Loss. Provided You Do Enough. – Very interesting. It may be that you only compensate by eating more in response to exercise up to a point. The rest of the calories might be gone for good. (NY Times)
- We’ll All Be Paying for Scott Pruitt for Ages – I was thrilled to learn of Pruitt’s resignation this week, but his replacement doesn’t seem much more promising and we will all continue to suffer for it. It’s so depressing. (NY Times)
- Fish Fraud is Real. What Should We Eat? – This question is not getting any easier to answer. (Civil Eats)
- The Best Chef’s Knives – Great list. (Serious Eats)
- grilled zucchini ribbons with pesto and white beans – Perfect summer food. (smitten kitchen)
What inspired you this week?
Hy Darya,
This such a cool looking website, I have read 3-4 post and I am gonna come back for more, I will be trying the speed readying app too, you have some excellent stuff for one’s everydayhealth.
That’s a lot of information for just one post, but it’s totally worth it. Thanks for sharing!
The importance of exercise cannot be over-emphasized. It not only helps prevent unhealthy weight gain, it also helps to lose weight. Very insightful piece.
Will also go through links to other articles.
Thanks