Mark your calendars for this coming weekend, March 16-18! The MU Life Sciences department is putting on its annual conference on health and eating. They have gathered experts in nutrition, psychology, taste science, cultural studies, marketing analysis, journalism and chefs to speak about how we can make healthy choices about what we eat for our
So, to add to my last post about needing to stop sitting, please watch the following 10 minute video. My favorite line in the video is “Exercise is a medicine.” In this well-produced segment, exercise is supported as the most important thing you can do for your health and it doesn’t require a lot of
More and more research is demonstrating how devastating it is to sit for extended periods of time. WebMD.com recently reported on findings that sitting for long stretches of time without getting up increases your cancer risk—particularly for breast and colon cancer. “The longer you sit, the higher your risk,” says Neville Owen, Ph.D., the author
If you want to hear the food industry admit they are trying to addict people to food, watch the CBS 60 minutes episode that aired on Sunday, November 27. Here is the website (go to the second story at 16 minutes into the episode (you also have to listen to 3 ads, but it’s worth
And other Thanksgiving food rules for every day By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHL. First published on theAPHL Public Health LabLog. Reposted with permission. Nov. 22, 2011 Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate family and friends, enjoy the fall harvest, and to stuff our faces full of delicious food. No matter your specific traditions,
I was just having the conversation with a colleague about the effect of genetics on being overweight or obese and puzzling about the implications this has for weight loss treatment. Two days later, as if in response to our query, the paper runs a story about this very topic. The “obesity gene,” otherwise known as
The Slow Food Movement has had people blogging on their website about how they accomplished the $5 meal challenge. Please check out their page for sharing recipe ideas (and pictures) here:http://5challenge.tumblr.com/ and let your own creativity about meal planning grow and prosper. When I looked a little further for $5 meals I came across the $5
On ABC News this week Olivia Katrandjian reported that “Denmark has introduced what’s believed to be the world’s first fat food tax, applying a surcharge to foods with more than 2.3 percent saturated fats, in an effort to combat obesity and heart disease.” Apparently that sent shock waves through the Danish culture and the Danes
As I promised earlier, I would report to you the results of my own $5 challenge (cooking a fresh, local, healthy meal for $5 or less and sharing it with others that was initiated by the Slow Food Movement). As it turns out, I cooked my own meal and shared it but I also participated
I just received word that the local Columbia, Missouri, chapter of the Slow Food Movement is taking the $5-Meal Challenge seriously. They will be sponsoring a $5-Meal on Sunday, September 18 (see registration information below) with the intention of showing people you can afford to eat fresh, healthy and local. Or, in other words, the