New Food Safety Ads are Just Plain Weird
Back in my college daze, I took a medical school class on the investigation and identification of food and water-borne illnesses, in addition to my basic coursework on food microbiology. “Food and water-borne illness” is just a nice way of writing “food poisoning,” doncha know. And while studying it wasn’t as nasty as experiencing it, suffice it to say, learning about often violent – and even deadly...
Let’s Move Salad Bars 2 Schools
Despite his high profile, Jamie Oliver isn’t the only well-known chef involved in reforming US school lunch programs. The “Renegade Lunch Lady,” Ann Cooper is another. She’s the author of 4 books on foods, nutrition and cooking, and has been featured in prominent magazines, newspapers and news programs. What drew my attention to her today was a hot-off-the-presses interview published in the journal, Childhood...
“The Milk Revolution”
“The Milk Revolution” is a blog started by a 4th grade class in Edmonton, Canada. Inspired by Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution,” the kids’ goal is to reduce the consumption of flavored milk in their school by 60%. They even have their own, “Moo TV” YouTube channel: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsU-E57vea0] Cute. And, tbh, this is probably the best way to reduce flavored milk...
AMA Condemns Competitive Eating
Good for the AMA. In addition to resolutions backing the individual mandate to purchase health insurance and to adopt a bill of rights for medical residents, delegates to the AMA’s annual meeting have approved a resolution recognizing “competitive speed eating as an unhealthy eating practice with potential adverse consequences.” …The background information given to the AMA’s voting delegates said that speed eating “condones...
LAT: “Why Are Unhealthy People so Reluctant to Change Their Lifestyles?”
The title says it all, doesn’t it? Amazingly, people who have already suffered heart trouble, diabetes or other lifestyle-related illnesses —people who intimately know the consequences of their behaviors — often have an especially hard time turning things around. It seems it takes more than a wake-up call, even a life-threatening one, to get people to give up their unhealthful ways. At least 40% of smokers who survive a heart...
Smoking and Appetite Suppression
It’s no secret that some people – young women in particular – take up smoking to facilitate weight control. It’s also no secret that tobacco companies have worked long and hard to create the impression that smoking will help keep you svelte. As it turns out, there may be more than just marketing involved. According to a recent paper published in the European Journal of Public Health, tobacco companies actually...
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