Restaurant Portions Inhibit Weight Loss
My wonderful boyfriend took me out for a delicious meal at an Italian restaurant last night. The food was incredibly tasty, but when it came to the table, I took one look at my plate and thought I was going to eat about one-third of what was on it.
The plate was about a food in [...]
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Weight Loss Soup
The first recipe from Pellegrino Artusi’s “Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well” that I want to share with you — well, my version of it, anyway — is what’s known as a bread crumb soup, or Minestra di Pangrattato. (It’s important that you know the Italian names so that when you [...]
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Fast Food and Weight Gain
More than three-fourths of Americans believe that fast food companies should reveal caloric and nutritional information on menus, and 82% think that food companies should further cut fat, sugar and salt from their products, according to a study by the Opinion Research Corporation.
Frankly, I think people ought to be cooking their own Italian food. It’s [...]
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Spring Cleaning and Weight Loss
It’s spring! Time to start shifting clothes around in the closet. While you’re at it, why not weed through some of those things you no longer use?
There’s something about springtime, when Nature renews herself and new buds spring forth, that makes us want to do some cleaning and clearing.
Excess weight can be a metaphor for [...]
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