The Power of Your Eating Mindset

Silhouette thinking about food with ice cream, burger, and shake cloud bubble.

Do you know someone who gets hangry? Come 11:30 a.m. or 6:15 p.m., if you don’t feed this person, he begins to get irritable and unresponsive. Doing anything hard is asking to get into a fight. Maybe that person is you? 😉 In my life, that person is my ordinarily level-headed, rational, reasonable, scientist-of-a-husband, Alex. … Read more

Could You Be Sabotaging Yourself By Eating Food Labeled “Healthy”?

Food labeling carrots showing two different names

Does seeing twisted garlic-ginger butternut squash on the menu make your mouth water?

What about slow-roasted caramelized zucchini bites?

Or are you more likely to leap at the chance to try butternut squash with no added sugar?

What about nutritious green zucchini?

The question is, do these names affect how likely we are to try the vegetables?  

In case you haven’t caught on, these are the same two dishes — sweet potatoes and zucchini — fancified with pretty names to get the “foodies” going or to put a healthy spin on the vegetable dish.

Food labeling carrots showing two different names

Let’s take a step back and first ask: how did researchers come to ask this question?

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Which Helps You Lose More Weight, Low-Fat Or Low-Carb Diet?

Which is better? Low-fat vs. low-carb diet? Stanford study weighs in.

I was at a party recently listening to an amusing squabble over low-carb and low-fat diets. Of course, the squabblers didn’t realize that’s what they were debating. Rather, the arguments sounded like the passive-aggressive quips I fondly remember during the political tip-toeing around the Thanksgiving table circa November 2016 after the elections. Whispers of Doesn’t … Read more