Category: Nutrition
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Miso vs. Movie House Popcorn
By Jay Hiller, March 15, 2023 Photo by Corina Rainer on Unsplash I’m not sure exactly why this happened. There’s free movie house popcorn at worky work every day now. Every morning, a colleague fires up the machine and it’s free. I try not to eat too much of it, and it’s tempting. I can…
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Daring antics in the produce department
By Jay Hiller, February 20, 2023 Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Like many people, I tend to get the same things over and over at the grocery store. Every once in a while though, I remind myself to try something new. Or at least a variation on something I already like. The produce department…
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A fact about coconut
by Jay Hiller, December 29, 2022 Photo by Tijana Drndarski on Unsplash When I was a teenager, my mom told me not to eat bananas because they were fattening. A doctor had told her that when she was 20 and she passed it on to me. It’s easy to misinterpret information about food and generally…
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Simple information that makes reading food labels clearer
by Jay Hiller, December 27, 2022 Bacon. Photo by KG Baek on Unsplash A lot of people like bacon. I’m not one of them but yesterday I had a reason to look up nutritional facts about it. I realized that if you don’t know 3 simple facts about macronutrients, it would be easy to misinterpret…
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You can’t out train a poor diet
by Jay Hiller, November 13, 2022 Photo by Madalyn Cox on Unsplash When I was in my late thirties I ran my first marathon. It was fun to build mileage in a systematic way over a period of 18 weeks. I snacked away the Sunday afternoons after my long run, doing laundry or running my…
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30-40 different types of plants a week
by Jay Hiller, November 7, 2022 Nutmeg. Photo by Ian Yeo on Unsplash Some advice on keeping the gut microbiome healthy that I’m reading a lot is to eat a wide variety of plant-based foods, 30-40 different plants a week. Variety can be as simple as eating different colors of the same vegetables. My grocery…
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A gift of bean sprouts
by Jay Hiller, October 27, 2022 A friend at work brought me a big bag of homegrown bean sprouts today. I felt so lucky. They tasted much better than the ones I get at the super market. And bean sprouts are good for you. They have high concentrations of vitamin C and are a source…
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An observation about sugar
by Jay Hiller, October 13, 2022 Most people know that there’s a lot of sugar in processed food. I’ve been cutting down on sugar and processed foods for about 6 months now. Today at a work event, I ate the free lunch. I could taste the sugar in a food you wouldn’t expect to be…
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Leave the poison on aisle 4
by Jay Hiller, October 1, 2022 Robert Lustig, an endicronologist, sums up his advice in one sentence: Feed the gut, protect the liver. If I were going to sum up how he advises us to do that, it would be to stop eating ultraprocessed food. He says that many of the diseases that send people…
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Salute to chia seeds and a nutrition book to consider
by Jay Hiller, September 28, 2022 “What’s the weird stuff in your oatmeal?” my husband asked the other morning. This is not an unusual question for him where my cooking is concerned. He thinks a lot of the stuff I eat is weird. (Then he goes to the grocery store and buys it for me.)…