Changing your diet is not easy. Unhealthy food habits don’t happen overnight, and breaking bad habits takes a sensible approach. One helpful strategy is to make small changes, repeatedly, when and where you can. Try substituting foods that are high in calories with low-cal alternatives.
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Coca-cola is joining in the fight against obesity. While the company has done some great things around the world, this fight is disingenuous at best. The marketing of free-fructose in large quantities is responsible for a great deal of the obesity epidemic in this, and other countries.
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My friend Robert Irvine wondered what kind of sandwich would remind us of him? So- heading to the kitchen we came up with something that reminds us of Robert. Since he is a Brit, the first thing that came to mind was fish and chips…but we got more creative than that.
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The single best thing you can do to lose weight is to learn to cook. Appreciate great food, develop a palate, and this will change your life. In my weight loss surgery practice I spend more time teaching my patients to cook then I do operating on them. But there is cooking and there is eating, so hand-in-hand with the cooking is learning to eat smaller portions, of great tasting food.
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Breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day – it is simply a meal. It won’t “jumpstart” your metabolism, and if you eat too much, or the wrong thing, you still have to burn those calories. I like a healthy smoothie for breakfast, or some reindeer sausage. If you have breakfast, don’t eat cereal with high fructose corn syrup, don’t drink coffee with free sugar
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Fructose, refined sugar, is biochemically not the same as found in nature, and its effect on the human body are devastating. One need to only look at the world wide epidemic of obesity and fructose consumption to see it. Here is the nitty gritty behind this deady product, and what you can do about it.
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Tired of dry turkey? Check out this 90-second video showing Turkey Sous Vide. The way to make a perfect turkey every time. Perfect holiday meal.
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A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA
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This weekend reading will be about food – one a biography of Craig Claiborne, the NY Times cookbook author and reviewer – and the other Michael Ruhlman’s, Twenty – which I will be not only reading, but cooking my way through.
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