I’m a female with type 1 diabetes, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get slightly panicky when I read about a study that suggests men who skip breakfast are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Surely that’s a good indicator of the importance of breakfast for everyone, not just men. And I almost always skip breakfast, unless...
Food & Nutrition
The Primal Blueprint: An Interview With Mark Sisson
By: Riva Greenberg |
April 19, 2012
In his book, The Primal Blueprint, Mark Sisson presents the compelling idea that by adapting to the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer, paleolithic ancestors, we can reprogram our bodies in the direction of weight loss, good health, and longevity. The book gives an historical background on why we should be eating like our earliest paleolithic...
A Baker Resurrects a Diabetic Cookbook From 1917 (Sort of…)
By: Carolyn Ketchum |
April 12, 2012
What would you think if I presented you with one of my recipes but gave you very little instruction on how to actually make it? Say I just gave you the ingredient list and told you to put it together and stick it in the oven? Or if I wasn’t even particularly clear about the ingredients list, if I mentioned using separated eggs,...
I Gave Up Sugar
By: Rick Foster |
April 11, 2012
One year ago, in April 2011, I read an article by Gary Taubes in the New York Times Magazine that scared me straight off sugar. And I gave up sugar, cold turkey. Until then, I’d never dieted in my life. In fact, I loved every dessert known to humankind. With impunity, I’d scarf the richest crème brulees, dulce de leche...
Joslin Asian American Diabetes Initiative Launches Cooking App
By: Jessica Apple |
March 29, 2012
The Asian American Diabetes Initiative (AADI) at the Joslin Diabetes Center has released a new iPhone app, Drag ’n Cook. Drag ’n, as you might have guessed, is a play on the word dragon, and the app features a cute little dragon in a chef’s hat. The app enables users to digitally prepare Asian cuisine while monitoring the...
The Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
By: Jessica Apple |
March 20, 2012
When I was about five-years-old, my mother brought home a whole, hairy coconut and sat down with me and my little brother on our brick red linoleum kitchen floor in Houston, Texas. She let us examine the coconut. Then she brought out a hammer and nail to open it. I wish I could tell you more, but after that, the memory ends. ...
9 Low Carb Snacks for Super Bowl Sunday
By: Jessica Apple |
February 2, 2012
My bat mitzvah was a disaster for many reasons, the most obvious one being that it took place on Super Bowl Sunday. As you can imagine, people had football and buffalo wings on their minds and were just waiting for the end of my Cyndi Lauper inspired, feminist bat mitzvah speech. I know this because when I looked up from my speech...
The Ketogenic Diet and Peter Attia’s War on Insulin
By: Michael Aviad |
January 31, 2012
Being a marathon runner with type 1 diabetes is tricky business. Normally, I eat a very low-carb diet which helps me maintain fairly stable blood sugar. But before a long run, I need to have enough fuel for energy, but not so much that my blood sugar gets out of control. Because this balance is so hard to achieve, I’ve found...
Pizza Is Not A Vegetable: Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children
By: Kristin Wartman |
November 24, 2011
If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable. The United States Congress voted to rebuke new USDA guidelines for school lunches that would have increased the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables in school...
The Health Benefits of Coffee
By: Jessica Apple |
August 11, 2011
I was eighteen the first time I enjoyed a cup of coffee. My boyfriend Mike (who later became my husband) invited me to meet him for coffee at a cafe in downtown Jerusalem. I had just graduated from high school in Texas and in that pre-Starbucks era, coffee – to my mind – was something only old people drank. But there...
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