healthy diets

My Christmas Gift To You: Permission To Eat Fat!

by emily on December 23, 2011

Is there such a thing as healthy fat? Or is it a sinful food you can legally splurge on during the holidays, and must resolve to give up come New Year’s? The main problem with the fat in conventional Christmas treats is that it tends to be trans fats, that hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part I: Introduction

by emily on December 7, 2011

Soon, healthy diets to lose weight will be in high demand. Come January 1, thousands upon thousands of well-meaning Americans will resolve to lose so many pounds. Books on weight loss will fly off bookstore and library shelves. Amazon will probably see a nice increase in profit that month. And while a handful of those New [...]

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