As a teen and young adult, I drank a lot of full-sugar sodas—Mountain Dew, mostly. One day I decided that I would swap them all out for their diet equivalents, and the resulting loss of calories would mean I’d drop an easy five, maybe ten pounds by the end of the year. I stuck to my promise, and you know how many pounds I lost, changing nothing else about my diet? Zeros.
I still don’t drink full-sugar sodas. (I am now, like my colleague Claire Lowera member of the Diet Coke cult.) But I understand on a gut level why…
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17 ‘healthy’ foods that are actually ruining your diet
Losing weight is a very common year-round goal. And while eating healthier foods, avoiding junk and fatty foods, and being more physically active sounds simple, the reality is much more complex. It’s frustrating when you believe you have done everything right not to see the scale budge. What could be wrong? Though the reasons can be many, the answer may also be in what you’re eating.
The biggest enemy to your diet is the overconsumption of calories, particularly from sugar, processed carbohydrates, and fried foods, according to San Antonio clinical nutritionist Sarah Treat. People are very often unaware of their…
Michelle Obama launches company to promote healthy food for kids
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama announced Wednesday that she has co-founded a company to make and sell healthier food and drinks for kids, products that she says will be less detrimental to their long-term health because of their lower sugar and higher nutrient content.
The former first lady’s work with PLEZi Nutrition is an extension of her efforts to improve child nutrition while she was in the White House.
“I’ve learned that on this issue, if you want to change the game, you can’t just work from the outside,” she said during a keynote address in New York at a conference…
Pine Bluff major wants new food options to become a healthier city
Making sure people have access to healthy and affordable foods is a problem across Arkansas, and Pine Bluff is working to solve the issue one healthy step at a time.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Making sure people have access to healthy and affordable foods is a problem across Arkansas, and it’s an issue that’s difficult to address.
A “food desert” is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food. These food deserts can have long-term impacts that span across generations.
The City of Pine Bluff is experiencing this issue, but the community is working to solve it…
Income thresholds to be removed from healthy food payments from 2024
Payments to help parents buy healthy food will no longer be means-tested, the Scottish Government has confirmed.
Around 20,000 people will become eligible for extra help to buy healthy food when income thresholds are removed for the Best Start Foods payments.
Families will still have to get qualifying benefits such as child tax credits or universal credit to receive the benefit.
Previously, incomes had to be below set thresholds.
Regulations will be introduced that remove thresholds to increase eligibility for the benefit from February 2024.
Shirley-Anne Somerville said the move is part of efforts to tackle poverty (PA)
Scottish Social…
The vicious cycle of food and sleep
The future, my mom used to say, belongs to those who wake up early. L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. She’d say this as we drove to early ice skating practices on those cold winter mornings growing up in Quebec. As it turns out, science may be proving her right — though perhaps not in exactly the way she thought.
I am a researcher who specializes in understanding the links between diet, sleep and health. Up until around 2014, my lab focused on examining how too little sleep affects obesity. Our work showed that reducing sleep by about…
Michelle Obama launches a food and drink company to promote healthy options for kids
Former first lady Michelle Obama has co-founded the food and drink company PLEZi, designed to provide healthy options for kids, she announced Wednesday.
Obama said he’d be working behind the scenes to guide PLEZi’s mission, which serves as an extension of the Let’s Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity that she launched as first lady.
“I’ve learned that on this issue, if you want to change the game, you can’t just work from the outside. You’ve got to get inside — you’ve got to find ways to change the food and beverage industry himself,” Obama said during the company announcement…
Michelle Obama launches a healthy food-and-drink brand to fight childhood obesity
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of a healthy food and beverage company she co-founded that is targeted at fighting childhood obesity.
The former first lady spearheaded the Let’s Move campaign, a program aimed at ending childhood obesity, during her time at the White House. She announced her latest venture at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival on Wednesday, May 3.
“We’re hoping not to just provide healthy and delicious…