The concept of food deserts — areas where a significant population, usually low-income, has no access to supermarkets and/or affordable, healthy food — came up in Monday’s post about the cost of junk food vs. healthy food. It’s easy, especially for those of us who live in cities and read blogs using our high speed [...]

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Last week, The New York Times published an editorial begging the question of whether junk food really is cheaper than good, healthy food. It’s conclusion was more or less no, that buying ingredients at a grocery store and cooking at home will always be more cost effective than picking up fast food. We must teach [...]

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Artificial sweetener is everywhere. Calorie conscious individuals, such as myself, long gave up sugar — it’s how many calories for how many tablespoons? No thanks! — not wanting to “waste points” on sweet tea, sugar in coffee, etc.  And why drink sugar when the alternative was even sweeter, and advertised as zero calories? ZERO! But [...]

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Full disclosure: this post may get icky and/or super personal. Yet I think that sharing my own experience discovering a mild lactose intolerance might help some of you out there. Two years ago I wasn’t very good at listening to what my body was telling me. I had a stressful job that came with a [...]

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The USDA and Michelle Obama have unveiled a new guideline for daily nutrition. Buh-bye bread-heavy Food Pyramid, helloooo “My Plate.” From ChooseMyPlate.com: Balancing Calories Enjoy your food, but eat less. Avoid oversized portions. Foods to Increase Make half your plate fruits and vegetables. Make at least half your grains whole grains. Switch to fat-free or [...]

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This week’s Weight Watcher meeting topic was the importance of breakfast. Suddenly, it hit me: hot damn! I’ve been eating breakfast for almost three years now!*throws confetti* I grew up stringently anti-breakfast. I was never hungry in the morning; I don’t favor “breakfast foods”; if I skipped breakfast I could eat more later in the [...]

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