Tag: nutrition books
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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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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.)…
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Book Review: The Proof Is In the Plants by Simon Hill
by Jay Hiller, September 3, 2022 If you’ve been reading my blog (and thank you if you have) you may have gathered that Simon Hill’s book, The Proof Is In the Plants and his podcast, The Proof, have my attention. I remember listening to my first episode of the podcast and thinking, ‘I hope this…
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Cheetos are tastier. Hyperpalatability is a dirty trick.
By Jay Hiller, August 30, 2022 Last week at work, I was slinking past a friend of mine with a bag of pretzels from the vending machine in my hand. They were the third best choice in the machine. The second best choice was an overpriced bag of peanuts, which I didn’t get because one…
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Vegetables for breakfast
by Jay Hiller, August 2, 2022 I eat vegetables for breakfast more often than I don’t. This is something I started doing 3 years ago after reading the book, Lean Habits for Lifelong Weight Loss by Georgie Fear (Page Street Publishing Co., Salem, MA 2015). Besides having a great name, Ms. Fear is a registered…