Posted by Joe Wheeler on October 17, 2010 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
Eating out. It’s fun! It’s social. It’s family, of course. It’s even, sometimes, a way to just keep yourself fed at those places in your life where cooking holds little attraction.
But it’s easy to get pulled along in all those ways of eating out — by peers, by family, by colleagues — into situations where the food doesn’t serve you (read: way too much hidden salt, sugar and fat), and the beverages send you into sugar spins or calorie overload. Read More | Comment
Posted by Melanie Beach on October 6, 2010 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices, Nutrition
The crispness of fall is refreshing after a hot, sticky summer, and increasingly you’ll find in stores and on menus the cold-weather comfort foods of childhood, like beef stew, roasted potatoes, apple crisp, pumpkin pie — oh my! Accompanying those meals is frequently a giant helping of overindulgence. What is it about this time of year that triggers us to overeat? Does the cooler weather bring on a hibernation instinct? Read More | Comment
