For the Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week the pros and cons of fasting, body fat trumps BMI, and how water cuts calories.
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Links of the week
- What’s wrong with the American diet? More than half our calories come from ‘ultra-processed’ foods <<It’s really not more complicated than this. (LA Times)
- Should You Be Getting More B Vitamins? <<Great primer on the nuances of B vitamins. Read this, especially if you avoid animal products. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
- Fasting Diets Are Gaining Acceptance <<I know intermittent and other forms of fasting are gaining in popularity, and I can certainly see the appeal. My biggest concern is that people who have a tendency to diet and moralize foods often binge after fasting (my own anecdotal observations, but I’ve seen it a lot), which is not a sign of a healthy relationship with food and could cause problems once you realize fasting sucks and try to go back to eating normally again. (NY Times)
- Body Fat May Be Bigger Health Danger Than Body Size <<It makes a lot of intuitive sense to me that body fat percentage is a better predictor of mortality than BMI. (Medline)
- Another Reason to Give Babies Peanut Butter <<In case you haven’t heard, those decades of doctors’ advice about pregnancy diets were wrong. (The Atlantic)
- Is Rice Healthy For Me? Does White vs Brown Rice Matter? <<Brilliant and amusing deep dive into the pros and cons of white versus brown rice. Good stuff. (Nerd Fitness)
- Broccoli may offer protection against liver cancer, study shows <<We still don’t know all the reasons eating more vegetables is so good for you. This may be one of them. (ScienceDaily)
- 10 Surprising Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight <<I normally disdain articles like this, but this one is surprisingly spot on. (Huffington Post)
- Drinking More Water May Help Your Diet <<Despite what everyone always says, there’s actually little evidence that drinking more water helps with weight loss. This new research suggests that even a relatively small increase in water intake results in fewer calories consumed. (Medline)
- Easy curried fish stew <<I know this sounds weird, but fish stews are really underrated and not hard to make. Be brave and give it a try. (Jamie Oliver)
What inspired you this week?
