Category: Obesity

No Miracle Diet for Food Addicts

There are diets for everything–the bikini-by-summer diet, the lose-all-the weight-you-want-in-thirty-days diet, the just-get-me-into-my-wedding-dress diet, and myriad other weight loss diets discovered daily. At best, the majority of weight-loss diets are temporary. And why? Because dieters have been programmed to expect temporary results. Most sensational diets over-promise and under-deliver. Once all the weight magically falls off, [...]

Monday February 28th, 2011 in Diets, Food Addiction, Food Addicts, Obesity, Self Help, Weight Loss | No Comments »

Healthy Snacks

Is there such a thing? That depends on who you listen to. Healthy doesn’t mean it has to be a vegetable, or taste disgusting. After all, it’s the combining of foods from the food pyramid that creates the energy we need to get us through the day. Miniature carrot sticks and broccoli are not healthy [...]

Monday February 21st, 2011 in Diets, Healthy Eating, Obesity, Real Food, Self Help, Weight Management | No Comments »

Subsidizing Processed Food=Subsidizing Food Addiction

I read a great article this week by Mark Bittman, author of the Minimalist food column in the New York Times. The article, A Food Manifesto, appeared in my hometown newspaper, The St. Petersburg Times. Mr. Bittman offered some suggestions that would, as he put it, “make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, [...]

Thursday February 10th, 2011 in Emotional Eating, Food Addiction, Obesity, Real Food | No Comments »

Gimme Some Real Food!

Where does your food come from? Do you know? Throughout most of my life, I have eaten foods whose origin was easily determined. We had gardens and raised chickens, and bought milk from farmers in the area. We had apricot and peach trees. We raised strawberries and got apples from neighbors who bartered with us. [...]

Monday February 7th, 2011 in Emotional Eating, Food Addiction, Healthy Eating, Obesity | No Comments »