Welcome to del.icio.us Friday, Thanksgiving edition. You can also stay updated with this news as it happens by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
Featured this week is an article from The Lean Plate Club, one of my favorite columns (it is authored by a Nutritionist Sally Squires and appears in the Washington Post about once a week). In Make Weigh for the Holidays, she explains the all-important concept of energy density i.e. how densely packed a food is with calories (not to be confused with calorific payload, which tries to describe how many nutrients you are getting for the number of calories you consume - the difference, though slight, exists). It is certainly required reading especially in the coming holiday season.
Top stories this week:
- Time to downsize your family: McDonald’s and other fast-food chains, along with schools and hospitals, need to make up their own minds to do more to improve public health. Let’s get serious about educating parents who let their kids woof down a Whopper every day.
- Workout may be better than calorie-cutting: Adults in their 50s and 60s who want to lose weight might consider a cardio workout instead of counting calories, suggests a U.S. study.
- Obesity: Maybe We Share Some of the Blame: The idea that we’re too fat because we eat too much and exercise too little is based largely on “circumstantial evidence,” according to a recent report in the International Journal of Obesity.
- Thanksgiving Recipes for Disaster: There’s still time to arm yourself against Thanksgiving tribulations.
- Make Weigh for the Holidays: In this era of super-sized portions, the idea of eating large - without being large - might seem like a fairy tale. Unless you know the secret of energy density.
- Exercise May Cut Snoring in Kids: Kids assigned to exercise at least 40 minutes a day showed the biggest overall improvement in sleep-related breathing problems.
- Job Burnout May Increase Diabetes Risk: A new study shows that workers suffering from job burnout may be more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
- Onions and Garlic May Prevent Cancers: Italian researchers found that people whose diets are rich in onions, garlic, and other alliums have a much lower risk of several types of cancer than those who avoid the pungent herbs.
- Breastfeeding May Lower Diabetes Risk: Breastfed babies may be less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
- Taco Bell to Ditch Trans Fats: Taco Bell today announced that it will start using a new canola oil for frying that contains no trans fats.
Have a great Thanksgiving holiday (and a healthful Thanksgiving meal).
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