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According to the American Heart Association, healthy individuals should limit their dietary cholesterol to 300 mg per day. One egg yolk provides about 200 mg of cholesterol. That doesn't leave a whole lot of room for pate, butter, fish, cheese, meats, milk or chocolate! It's a good thing that plant-based foods such as…

I like the 365 Organic Fat Free Cottage Cheese from Whole Foods, but any decent quality brand will do. I don't love or not love cottage cheese in particular, but it comes in handy if you haven't had quite enough for dinner and need just a bit before bed time. It is one of the few things that won't mess up your sleep, which…

Everyday snacking is likely to wear out the pancreas and lead to diabetes if you are obese and do not eat well. One third of us is obese and another one third is overweight. One in four Americans over age 20 has prediabetes, and 90% of those who have it don’t even know they have it. An A1C level between 6 and 6.5 percent…

Yes, we have to, but we won't, because stressing moderation to addicts is a moot point, and addiction to processed foods is a very real thing. Yes. Still, people form and cling to false beliefs despite overwhelming evidence. It's called motivated reasoning.

Bump! I have so far steered clear of Jillian Michaels on the bookstore shelves in case she was the physical health equivalent of personal finance guru Suze Orman, but my fears were unfounded. Yesterday I picked up her Master Your Metabolism. This is not an exercise book, she writes, so I moved on. I noted that when…

Is This Normal?: The Essential Guide to Middle Age and Beyond by John Whyte has an informative chapter on sleep that I can recommend. The whole book in fact is well worth reading, as each chapter touches on an important aspect of living.

Counting calories for the rest of my life? I hope not. Eating a little less and exercising a little more may make up for a slowing metabolism. There's a great chapter entitled The New Science of Aging in Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge. "In a…

Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book by Chris Crowley and Jennifer Sacheck. The chapter on junk food by Jennifer Sacheck is quite fascinating. I have read most of the book's chapters written by her, but none of those by Chris Crowley. I have no idea of the book's weight-loss plan, my take on it was selective reading…

Oh, about ten or twenty times a day these months. You need a reliable scale for that. Fluctuations generally don't discourage me as long as I can figure out why. I realized yesterday that my weight went up half a pound after drinking a cup water; it never really clicked for me before that it was because a cup of water…

"In the last 20 years, the amount of sugar each person consumes yearly in the United States has soared from 26 pounds per person to more than 135 pounds per person." http://www.sharecare.com/question/sugar-consume-every-year "Processed food means the addition of sugar; of the 600,000 items in the food supply, 80 percent…

Well, let's see now. "In the late 1970s, due to the development of new fructose enrichment technology, corn started being processed into high fructose corn syrup. The result? From 1980 to 2009, our intake of HFCS had risen from almost zero to 13.2 teaspoons per day." Some restaurant chains have become something more like…

Speaking of mice, I have just returned from a trip to the local bookstore, where I read chapter one of The Hunger Fix by Pamela Peeke, who by no means beats around the bush on the topic of food addiction. "Lab rats with an unlimited access to a high-fat/high-carb diet almost eat themselves to death. They'll voluntarily opt…

Mystery resolved. It would appear that the pound I was below my regular body weight when waking up was due to the overnight evaporation of the part of my brain mass that deals with the obvious. It would otherwise have been clear to me that this morning's unaccounted half of pound was missing because I hadn't included the…

There's nothing new about that you should eat no later than say three hours before bedtime. The process of digestion can otherwise keep you awake, and when you do sleep, your body doesn't burn calories as efficiently. http://www.motivatingmax.com/lose-weight-by-getting-a-good-nights-sleep.html Also, less or worse sleep…

Digital scales can be terribly inaccurate. I once went a Bed Bath & Beyond store and ran a tree step test of ten digital scales. 1) my weight, 2) my weight plus some five pound item, 3) my weight. 1) and 3) were more often than not off by more than half a pound. Some up to two pounds off. Some months later I returned and…

Perfect foods? Oh yes. MUFAs. http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/flat-belly-diet/meet-mufas-flat-belly-diet Not so sure though about stuff like blue agave. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jonny-bowden/debunking-the-blue-agave_b_450144.html

Neither my other half nor I have any first-hand experience with antidepressant drugs, but one of my favorite health books is The End of Diabetes by Joel Fuhrman, who on his website writes about natural treatments for depression, none of which promote weight gain. http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/natural_depression.aspx I…

700 calories a day and not losing http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing

Bring a really big salad with a can of garbanzo beans, which will leave you less hungry in hours to come. Of course you may also want to request being reseated towards the back, lol.

Can't help but agree. You look stunning. An hourglass girl for sure. http://www.westfield.com.au/au/be-inspired/services/fashion-services/body-shape-calculator I wish you well on the journey towards a leaner you. Keep us posted.

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you.

What there is an inverse correlation between your daily sugar intake and your lifespan? Come to think of it, there is. http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2010/03/3222/ucsf-lecture-sugar-and-obesity-goes-viral-experts-confront-health-cri

Interesting stuff. And there's more to be found in this recent thread. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/875124-8-cups-of-water Also, drinking a glass of water before each of the three daily meals helps. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/health/16really.html

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg is a wonderful read. I have also enjoyed Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes. It is sad though to observe we are now so far into the winter that the post-holiday diet book stand just past the front door of Barnes and Noble stores and those alike is no longer. Novelty has worn off on New…

Prevent/treat or reprieve? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/my-husband-alzheimers-patient/252595/

Hydrolyzed or hydrogenated? http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/hydrogenated.html http://www.webefit.com/articles_100_199/article_191_MovieFood.html

We have returned to eating the way we did when we were young and had time to cook. It was inexpensive and fresh. In the busy years between then and now, it wasn't fully so. There were occasional prepackaged dinners that got heated up in the microwave oven. Pizza and Chinese takeouts happened too often. Bags of precut…

Regal has the worst popcorn. The calories are way up there and the aftertaste is so terrible I'd rather lick the bathroom floor. And that's without the butter. Cinemark has the best movie popcorn; they use canola oil, not coconut oil. At home I eat the Market Pantry kind. You sometimes have to wonder why people buy the…

Is This Normal?: The Essential Guide to Middle Age and Beyond by John Whyte. It actually comes as a surprise to me how many books I read and haven't turned to newspapers given the stupidity of the American serial comma. I remember being in a really good mood one day a few months back skimming this health book in the cafe…

An imperfect FICO score can very much be a deal breaker. What kind of a future would a 800 person have with a 500 person? The score reflects your ability to pay back borrowed money. Personal responsibility, if you will. Life is too short for financial bickering. I'm so glad I'm married to someone whose FICO score is better…