Diet

Recently, the movie Fed Up premiered, with a lot of media hoopla. Produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, the film focuses on how the food industry is responsible for the nation’s obesity and health ills. You may recall that David also produced Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Couric’s reputation as a journalist lends street Read more

With the Mediterranean diet all the rage, not only because consumers like its tasty composition but because of research touting its health benefits, experts have had to become more specific about recommendations for fats. There’s a steady drumbeat these days—from everyone from chefs to food writers to health gurus—criticizing nutritionists and the “diet police,” who Read more

In the first recent piece of good news about the child obesity epidemic, the latest statistics on preschoolers—those 2- to 5-year-old bundles of joy whom we worry about so much—suggest that they’re less obese than they used to be. Between 2003/2004 and 2011/2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there was a huge Read more

  I’ve noticed whenever I’ve traveled to Europe that Europeans love to sit in cafés. They’ll nurse an espresso or two for hours, but they almost never eat in the cafés unless it’s a mealtime. In our American equivalent—the coffee bar—you’ll find that we have larger and much higher-calorie drinks, and there’s a lot more Read more

The conversation parents dread even more than the one about the birds and the bees? It’s the one about their kids’ weight. Sure, the facts-of-life talk is awkward and needs to be age-appropriate and you want your facts straight, but it’s different when you’re talking to your kids about what they weigh. Your children never Read more