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... and likely of little interest to most visitors here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-oliver-sara...
But it's my blog, and I'm excited for my niece and her bride.
They did a video, too.
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Jesse Tannenbaum, a casting producer working with ABC-TV, is looking for young people who have worked through a difficult health issue and turned the experience into a positive in their communities.
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A reaction to the USDA's "MyPlate" concept, which replaces the failed "food pyramid" for communicating what we should eat in a simple way, that I've seen several times is that the next chore of food and nutrition advocates is to get federal agriculture subsidies to mirror federal advice for what we should eat.
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If anyone out there is proposing a tax on sugary sodas, you can be sure the "Center for Consumer Freedom" will be nearby, trying to distract from any real discussion.
With this post, it returns to Philadelphia, where the mayor is again proposing a soda tax, even after beverage industry lobbyists pledged to give $10 million to the city's Children's Hospital, in the middle of a debate on a soda tax, so it could expand obesity-prevention efforts. Any reasonable person would consider that civic bribery, but let's skip over that right now.
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Zoe Harcombe, a Twitter pal in the UK, is a nutritionist and author. Here, she is interviewed for what I believe is a BBC show on topics including processed food, food cravings, food addiction, and other topics we have a mutual interest in.
If you're visiting me here, you may be interested as well.
The clip is a bit less than 20 minutes.
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Sometimes, I just share stuff because it oughta be shared. This is from my friend and former Boston Globe colleague, Alex Beam:
Happily, there are plenty of loons left in the lake that Trump flew in from. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Screwloose) — the distinguished legislator who thinks the American Revolution began somewhere near Nashua — is worrying out loud that America will be biblically “cursed’’ if Obama “rejects’’ Israel, whatever that means. Fellow policy wonk Sarah Palin likewise dumped on Obama’s Israel policy in an op-ed column graciously accepted for publication by her Facebook page.
This post, of course, was graciously accepted by michaelprager.com.
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Perhaps it's a sign of immaturity, but I'm still enjoying the internecine squabbles among sugar producers. According to foodnavigator-usa.com, five more sugar companies have joined the opposition to the corn refiners' association effort to rename high fructose corn syrup to "corn sugar."
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A couple times recently, I've come across the notion that obesity is a sign of malnutrition. The first time, it was in an interview, and I decided just to edit that out, 'cause I wanted to save the speaker from himself. I mean, that couldn't be right, right?
Then I saw it again here, and while I'm not buying it yet, I understand the reasoning and see how it might be true. For some. Perhaps.
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Bettina Eilas Siegel, proprietor of The Lunch Tray blog, also addresses — quite well— Kathleen Parker's Washington Post op-ed about how family leadership is the route of salvation from the epidemic of obesity.
One commonality I note is that we both agree that family involvement is necessary but neither of us thinks it is sufficient. Our prescription is multifaceted.
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As I am called to say frequently these days, I agree that for child obesity, any strategy that doesn't begin with family involvement is unlikely to be sufficient. Here's the problem with Kathleen Parker's misty-eyed paean to the family and how it holds the key to America's obesity problem: We're relying on it already — have been all along — and we're getting fatter.
Ordinarily, that's evidence that we need to try something more.
