A food memoir of weight loss, family recipes, and strategies for staying healthy in your 70's and beyond
A recent study revealed that some young adults feel that eating cereal for breakfast is too much trouble.
Source: Will Millennials pass time crunch or breakfast munch on to their kids? – CSMonitor.com
Nearly 40% of the survey respondents stated cereal was a poor choice for breakfast because you had to clean up afterwards. Let me think about this. One bowl and one spoon.
This appears to be the Gladwell Tipping Point. We’re doomed.
Yes, an online article from THE Mayo Clinic on going veggie.
Tofu fajitas???
Lifestyle factors — including nutrition, physical activity and stress — are critical determinants of health and, when poorly managed, can cause a veritable pandemic of chronic disease and unsustainable health care costs. Yet despite overwhelming connections between lifestyle factors and disease, most medical schools lack a cohesive approach to helping students translate their basic science education into practical patient advice and care.
via Teaching Students to Cook Now Makes Them Better Doctors Later.
I’m not quite sure if I actually taught my offspring how to cook. But having a role model certainly helps. My father did all the cooking when I was a kid. One day I asked, “Why do you do all the cooking?” and his reply was,
“You’ve tasted your Mother’s cooking. Survival.”
I taught myself how to cook because I thought all Dads did the cooking. Don’t they?
Dean Ornish: Can Healthy Eating Reverse Some Cancers? : NPR.
At the grocery store the other day I was asked if I was a vegetarian. I said no. When I thought about the correct answer, I really had no answer. There’s not really a good word to describe my eating habits. Most weeks two thirds of my meals are meatless. I avoid processed foods and fast food restaurants. I guess I try to eat less bad food and more good health enhancing foods like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, less animal products, and more craft beer.
I stumbled upon this old TED talk this morning. If you are not familiar with the work of Dr. Dean Ornish, this short video is a great place to start.
garyskitchen.net 