1.19.2012

Marion Nestle, You Win.

main thumb AP120117133385.jpgWeighing in on Paula Deen - The Atlantic
Calling out Deen's diabetes drug endorsement for what it really is, Dr. Nestle highlights the fact that if you can eat (and sit) your way into Type II Diabetes, then you can also eat (and walk, or jog, or dance, or...) your way back toward a more normal body weight and reduced disease symptoms.

1.17.2012

When More is just More


Paula Deen has publicly acknowledged her Type II Diabetes. The general outcry seems to revolve around the fact that after years of endorsing highly caloric, dat-and-sugar-laden dietary choices, Paula is now formally endorsing a diabetes drug without explicitly renouncing her earlier eating principles.

Less.

“Less is more” never actually means exactly what it says. Usually the idea goes: less is cleaner, or freer, or better in some way.More is often just more: more ingredients, more steps, more minutes, more harmful consequences for the body and mind and more time to recover.

So less is just less, and often no deprivation. In daily rituals, food preparation and consumption, and exercise. Cutting, refocusing, and reimagining routines and recipes so that figuratively and literally, we have less on our plate.