SUSTAINABLY

Sugar revolutionaries

Michael — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:05:47 +0000

In an editorial published [Wednesday] in the journal Nature, University of California at San Francisco doctors Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis argue that the ballooning rates — and costs — of obesity, diabetes, and other diseases, mean it’s time for regulators to lump sugar into the same category as booze and cigarettes and put similar restrictions on its sale and availability. — ABC News

Audio testimony

Michael — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:33:30 +0000

I just caught on that an audio recording I made about my food story at a food-and-health festival last summer is posted on the "Let's Talk About Food" website. It's about 5 minutes, I guess.

Sage words on sugar addiction

Michael — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:35:11 +0000

Jill Escher, author of "Goodbye, Club Perma-Chub," includes 10 tips to overcome sugar addiction during a podcast interview by Erin Chamerlik (Get Better Wellness).

I've written about Jill before, and expect I will again. She is a voice of informed reason.

Gaps in a "registered" education

Michael — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:44:50 +0000

When I published my broadside yesterday about registered dietitians, I said that it reflected views I’d held for a while but that they’d boiled over in the past little while.

Ask an RD: What do they know?

Michael — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:59:03 +0000

Based on my early experience with them, and on what I've heard from others of their experiences, I have long held opprobrium for registered dietitians. But it has recently bubbled over again.

Yoni Freedhoff and the Georgia obesity ads

Michael — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:41:22 +0000

I've already touched twice on the anti-obesity campaign in Georgia, and I'm not sorry for anything I've said. But its return to uproar prompted by the National Eating Disorder Association also brought comment from Dr.

Graphical portrayal of important questions

Michael — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:23:26 +0000

I ran across this graphic at Huffington Post under Darya Pino's byline. It's cute, expressing certain, increasingly prevalent truths under the piece's headline, "Is It Food?" This is not a comical diversion; it's a key question of our age.

On the shift from child to parent, tread lightly

Michael — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:49:57 +0000

In our home, the stairs to the second floor rise on one wall of my son's bedroom, and the hall to my bedroom follows another. So especially when he's near the beginning or end of his slumber, I try to walk lightly.

When I was young (though much older than he is now), I had a different reason to step quietly on stairs at night: Typically, I was en route to or from an illicit trip to the kitchen, seeking to eat in secret what I knew I'd be faulted for if my parents knew.

Food addiction shows up on "Dr. Oz"

Michael — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:28:07 +0000

On the "Dr. Oz" episode on food addiction that ran this week, the news for my peeps and I was good, generally. More than three times as many respondents to an online poll said they think they might be addicted to food than those who said they don’t think they are. And by a ratio of more than 3-1, respondents consider food addiction as serious as addictions to drugs and alcohol.

And now, for something completely different

Michael — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:29:57 +0000

This post could hardly be further from my usual grounds, despite that "fat" is the fourth word of the passage. I'm reading "Bleak House," by Charles Dickens right now and appreciated the skill of the following so much that I just wanted to share it. It is a description of the elder Mr. Turveydrop, a secondary character at best (or, I should say, secondary so far; I'm still reading):