Check out this article on “eating to support your yoga” in Yoga Journal. If the sections on ayurvedic eating and fasting (they give fasting a thumbs-down) bore you, skip straight to the “conscious eating” section.

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I don’t know why, but I’m intrigued by all the talk about the effect of inflammation on health and weight loss. It sounds like a sexy new magic — a veritable scientific advance in our exploration of the body! Until a year or two from now, when it’s effects are dismissed and we’ve moved onto […]

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Science writer Gina Kolata takes a look at Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories in The New York Times.
She likes his critique of the flimsy science that undergirds much conventional wisdom about healthy eating, but isn’t convinced that the only reason the low-carb revolution hasn’t saved us from Fatdom is that we’re junkies who keep […]

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I thought I knew everything about sugar sensitivity, but Kathleen DesMaisons (also the author of Potatoes Not Prozac) taught me a few more things in The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program. There’s much to learn here, in particular about how your brain functions (or doesn’t).
The downside of this book is that is recommends eliminating sugar […]

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I’ve been reading up on my new conviction that diets are the enemy. Turns out the movement, or at least one wing of it, has a name: Intuitive Eating, the idea that your best body will unfold like a flower if you simply eat when hungry and stop when full. This is also the heart […]

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