You’ll never for a minute guess what newspaper I read. Yup, the New York Times. I don’t live in NYC but I did grow up there and every morning, my father read the Times on the subway on his way to work. Each afternoon, he’d read the NY Post. This was well before the days [...]

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CHICAGO – U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds per year… My initial reaction to this was, put politely, no way. I would have paid any price for my homemade onion rings and malted [...]

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Obesogens are chemicals that disrupt the function of hormonal systems; many researchers believe they lead to weight gain and, in turn, numerous diseases that curse the American populace. The quote above, from Men’s Health (via MSNBC) has the low down on the obesity epidemic in the US and pretty much all western countries. It’s not [...]

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Presented for your consideration, the simple, Cheerio. Not fancy. Not my first choice for breakfast grain, but not awful.  One gram of sugar in a 27 gram serving. For this compulsive eater, that’s not a problem. Note also 3 grams of fiber and 3 grams or protein. Also, not bad. Presented for your consideration, the [...]

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I’m pretty sure this wasn’t planned but the good folks at Unilever have actually improved their Slim Fast product, if by improved you mean increased the rate of weight loss*. All it took was one new ingredient. Why didn’t they think of this before? All canned Slim Fast drinks are being voluntarily recalled by the [...]

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I’ve been sharing at meetings and speaking with other OA’s about “good” food and “bad” food. I’ve taken the view there is no bad food. There is just my food and not my food. Simple. No negativity. No value judgment. Negativity was a huge part of my disease so I avoid it where I can [...]

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If I were to suggest to you that the food industry combines sugar, fat and salt with the specific purpose of driving us to want to eat it’s products, even to excess, would you be surprised? Would this come as some cosmic revelation? I thought not. In truth, our grandmothers did the same to varying [...]

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Finally the world is safe for milk drinkers (not me). There is a new milk on the block. A better milk. A milk, engineered (more) by man (in the generic sense, human kind sense of the word). Welcome blessed readers to the new world of Hood’s Calorie Countdown Dairy Beverage. According the the Hood website, [...]

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