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The day after Thanksgiving, the last thing you’ll be thinking about is weight loss. And if you’re debating about whether or not you should hit the gym to make up for yesterday’s edible indiscretions, if the alternative is getting up and moving long before the sun shines for Black Friday, you may actually want to skip your run and go shopping instead–it burns more calories than you think. More
We’re just days away from Thanksgiving dinner–which means we’re also days away from Thanksgiving dessert. When it comes to slicing the pumpkin pie, you probably usually ask for the smallest piece. But just how small do you have to go to keep your serving to 100 calories or fewer? Is it even worth it? More
Halloween is the semi-official kick-off for what is lovingly known by many as the most fattening time of the year. “Fun Size” treats make their way into every home and office–making it anything but fun to keep track of how many extra calories you’ve consumed over the course of a day. The idea of pre-portioned candy sounds all well and good, but when each serving is a tiny finger of chocolate, or six Junior Mints, reaching for two (or five) becomes a little too tempting. Unless you know exactly what you’re getting into. More
Conventional dieting wisdom holds that if you cut about 500 calories per day, either through dieting or extra exercise, you’ll lose weight—about 1 pound a week, or 52 pounds a year. That’s because there are 3,500 calories in one pound. Makes sense, right? But new research from the National Institutes for Health says this formula is grossly flawed, and it actually takes much longer to lose weight. More
Is skipping meals, or eating low-cal meal replacers, a good way to lose weight? We’ve all heard the arguments against it—that eating less at one meal only causes you to eat more later, that losing weight takes an overall eating overhaul. But a study coming up in the October issue of the journal Appetite says, actually, eating one reduced-calorie meal and then whatever you want for the rest of the day could be an effective way to lose weight. More
“More miles means more wine, and more cheese,” reads the tagline of i run to eat, a blog tracking the workouts and training goals of Katerina, a Vancouver-based food blogger. The same sentiment is echoed in the title of a similar blog, “Eat to Run. Work to Shop.” And chances are, you know at least a few men and women whose fitness philosophy is simply: Burn enough calories to eat a lot of food without getting fat. But is it a “healthy” attitude towards fitness and nutrition? Possibly, but there are also a few arguments against it. More
It could be less than you think—but it could actually be more. Food politics writer Marion Nestle wrote a few weeks ago about the origins of the 2,000-calorie-per-day diet business, and notes that when the FDA set out to determine that number (in 1941), it found women typically reported consuming 1,600 to 2,200 calories per day, men 2,000 to 3,000 and children 1,800 to 2,500. But the FDA wanted one standard of daily caloric intake. It originally picked 2,350, except everyone said this was too high (“Nutrition educators worried that it would encourage overconsumption, be irrelevant to women who consume fewer calories, and permit overstatement of acceptable levels of ‘eat less’ nutrients such as saturated fat and sodium,” writes Nestle). So the FDA went with 2,000 calories instead, more or less because it sounded nice and was somewhat within the range of calorie-consumption totals people reported—not really based on the research. More
Yesterday on the Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed chef Michael White as he demonstrated how to make lobster eggs benedict. That’s just wrong, I thought while envisioning the enormous amount of calories, fat and cholesterol in this breakfast dish. “Here’s the problem with eggs benedict,” said Lauer. “It’s all about the timing.” No, here’s the problem, I said back to his HD image. It’s gonna kill you. More
If you tend to scarf down lunch while you’re tackling emails, listening to music and talking to coworkers, you might be into the idea of this new Bite Counter wristwatch that tracks the motion of your wrist to monitor how much you’ve eaten. Then again, something about a diet monitor strapped to our body reminds us of being under house arrest. So we’re weighing the pros and cons of this new diet-aiding technology: More
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Filed under the category of This Is Why They Hate Us: The new trend in diet foods, according to the Associated Press, is to make things so ultra-low-cal that dieters can eat a huge portion without worry. Well, worry about breaking their diet, that is: Many low-cal foods achieve their status by loading up on artifical sweetners and other questionable ingredients. More
If you’ve ever set foot in The Cheesecake Factory, you know about their monster-sized desserts. But did you also know about their cheeseburger topped with a fried egg that ended up on the latest worst restaurant foods list? By now, I think we can all agree on the fact that menu items like this are ridiculously bad for us. And yet, Americans continue to eat these fat- and calorie-laden foods, and restaurants continue to oblige. More
I admit, when women talk about counting calories (or even worse, about diet products that may be low-cal but aren’t the slightest bit healthy, or filling), I cringe—which is why this Jane Brody column calling counting calories outdated caught my eye. More
NPR, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal are all buzzing about new weight loss research published in The New England Journal of Medicine, that challenges the conventional wisdom that dropping pounds is just about calories in, calories out. According to researchers, what you eat might be just as important as how much you eat; weight loss isn’t just about the bottom line. (Which all, by the way, happens to make for a sensational headline about how potatoes are bad, and nuts are good.) But — regardless of whether you choose to heed or believe it — nutritionists and experts have been doling out this advice for years. More
Yesterday I was grocery-shopping with my new boyfriend for the first time, and there we were confronted with the milk cases. I’m normally an almond/hemp/soy milk drinker, but it seemed silly to buy two cartons, so I told him I’d just drink regular milk as long as it was organic (yes, I’m that girl). And then – whoa – he’s pulling out the 2%. Who drinks 2% milk these days? Doesn’t everyone agree that skim is better for you?Maybe it’s not, according to an article from Details magazine. More
