It was hot today, and no kind of a day for a walk. Unfortunately, our tennis date was scuffled when we failed to reserve a court and none were available. Instead, we went on a date to Blue on Highland, a chic new restaurant in Needham that is secretly owned by Steven Tyler & the Hard Rock Cafe gang. It was quite good, and the dessert menu boasted four items that I love: cheesecake, chocolate bread pudding, chocolate cake and a brownie sunday. As usual, we got no dessert and went home.
Breakfast
(back to normal)
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee
Lunch: Russos' ($5.95)
Romaine, red pepper, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Snack
1 extra smokey
4 sticks beef jerky
2 clementines
1 honey crisp
dinner: blue on highland
arugula salad with lemon vinaigrette
mahi-mahi with spinach, jicama
a few french fries
At least if I had gone a walk we could've had dessert...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Year 3, Day 144: Obesity is Contagious
Just a usual day at work. I wanted to go for a walk, but the gang rebuffed me on account of it was too hot. After dinner the family (and my niece) piled into the mini van to go out for ice cream. I was sadly, a refusenik.
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee
Snack
5 Sticks Beef Jerky
2 oz Boston Lite Popcorn
Coffee
Lunch: Russo's
Romaine, red pepper, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Dinner
Hamburger-Bacon
String Beans
Mesclun Mix Salad
Study: Obesity Is 'Socially Contagious'
ALICIA CHANG | July 25, 2007 11:10 PM EST |
— If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is "socially contagious" and can spread easily from person to person.
The large, federally funded study found that to be true even if your loved ones lived far away. Social ties seemed to play a surprisingly strong role, even more than genes are known to do.
"We were stunned to find that friends who are hundreds of miles away have just as much impact on a person's weight status as friends who are right next door," said co-author James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego.
The study found a person's chances of becoming obese went up 57 percent if a friend did, 40 percent if a sibling did and 37 percent if a spouse did. In the closest friendships, the risk almost tripled.
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Researchers think it's more than just people with similar eating and exercise habits hanging out together. Instead, it may be that having relatives and friends who become obese changes one's idea of what is an acceptable weight.
Despite their findings, the researchers said people should not sever their relationships.
"There is a ton of research that suggest that having more friends makes you healthier," Fowler said. "So the last thing that you want to do is get rid of any of your friends."
The study was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine and funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Researchers analyzed medical records of people in the Framingham Heart Study, which has been following the health of residents of that Boston suburb for more than a half century. They tracked records for relatives and friends using contact information that participants provided each time they were examined over a 32-year period.
In all, 12,067 people _ all Framingham participants _ were involved in the study.
After taking into account natural weight gain and other factors, researchers found the greatest influence occurred among friends and not in people sharing the same genes or living in the same household. Geography and smoking cessation had no effect on obesity risk.
On average, the researchers calculated, when an obese person gained 17 pounds, the corresponding friend put on an extra 5 pounds.
Gender also had a strong influence. In same-sex friendships, a person's obesity risk increased by 71 percent if a friend gained weight. Between brothers, the risk was up by 44 percent and 67 percent between sisters.
Indiana University statistician Stan Wasserman said while the study was clever, it had its limitations because it excluded relationships outside of the Framingham group.
Obesity is a global public health problem. About 1.5 billion adults worldwide are overweight, including more than 400 million who are obese. Two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
Much of the recent research focus has been on the intense hunt for obesity genes involved in appetite or calorie burning. Treatment has been mainly centered on helping individuals curb their weight through better diet and fitness.
The findings could open a new avenue for treating this worldwide epidemic. The researchers said it might be helpful to treat obese people in groups instead of just the individual.
"Because people are interconnected, their health is interconnected," said lead author Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a Harvard sociologist.
Obesity experts not involved in the research said the results back up what they have suspected all along _ that people look toward one another for what is an acceptable weight.
"If you're just a little bit heavy and everyone around you is quite heavier, you will feel good when you look in a mirror," said Dr. David Katz, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center.
___
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee
Snack
5 Sticks Beef Jerky
2 oz Boston Lite Popcorn
Coffee
Lunch: Russo's
Romaine, red pepper, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Dinner
Hamburger-Bacon
String Beans
Mesclun Mix Salad
Study: Obesity Is 'Socially Contagious'
ALICIA CHANG | July 25, 2007 11:10 PM EST |
— If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is "socially contagious" and can spread easily from person to person.
The large, federally funded study found that to be true even if your loved ones lived far away. Social ties seemed to play a surprisingly strong role, even more than genes are known to do.
"We were stunned to find that friends who are hundreds of miles away have just as much impact on a person's weight status as friends who are right next door," said co-author James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego.
The study found a person's chances of becoming obese went up 57 percent if a friend did, 40 percent if a sibling did and 37 percent if a spouse did. In the closest friendships, the risk almost tripled.
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Researchers think it's more than just people with similar eating and exercise habits hanging out together. Instead, it may be that having relatives and friends who become obese changes one's idea of what is an acceptable weight.
Despite their findings, the researchers said people should not sever their relationships.
"There is a ton of research that suggest that having more friends makes you healthier," Fowler said. "So the last thing that you want to do is get rid of any of your friends."
The study was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine and funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Researchers analyzed medical records of people in the Framingham Heart Study, which has been following the health of residents of that Boston suburb for more than a half century. They tracked records for relatives and friends using contact information that participants provided each time they were examined over a 32-year period.
In all, 12,067 people _ all Framingham participants _ were involved in the study.
After taking into account natural weight gain and other factors, researchers found the greatest influence occurred among friends and not in people sharing the same genes or living in the same household. Geography and smoking cessation had no effect on obesity risk.
On average, the researchers calculated, when an obese person gained 17 pounds, the corresponding friend put on an extra 5 pounds.
Gender also had a strong influence. In same-sex friendships, a person's obesity risk increased by 71 percent if a friend gained weight. Between brothers, the risk was up by 44 percent and 67 percent between sisters.
Indiana University statistician Stan Wasserman said while the study was clever, it had its limitations because it excluded relationships outside of the Framingham group.
Obesity is a global public health problem. About 1.5 billion adults worldwide are overweight, including more than 400 million who are obese. Two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
Much of the recent research focus has been on the intense hunt for obesity genes involved in appetite or calorie burning. Treatment has been mainly centered on helping individuals curb their weight through better diet and fitness.
The findings could open a new avenue for treating this worldwide epidemic. The researchers said it might be helpful to treat obese people in groups instead of just the individual.
"Because people are interconnected, their health is interconnected," said lead author Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a Harvard sociologist.
Obesity experts not involved in the research said the results back up what they have suspected all along _ that people look toward one another for what is an acceptable weight.
"If you're just a little bit heavy and everyone around you is quite heavier, you will feel good when you look in a mirror," said Dr. David Katz, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Year 3, Day 56: Again No Walk & Chocolate Followup
It was really bone-chillingly cold today; an effect that can only be had when Monday is 80 degrees followed by Tuesday at 70 degrees. Normally, a 60 degree day in April is a delight, but the rain came and to top it off our property manager goosed the A/C yesterday and so it was FREEZING inside.
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee
Lunch: Russo's ($5.17)
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Snack
4 Pieces Beef Jerky
1 Cameo Apple
Dinner
Fish
Cauliflower
FOLLOW UP FROM GUITTARD:
Fourth generation chocolatier challenges proposed FDA downgrades to
what makes chocolate what it is;
“Citizen’s Petition” proposal shortchanges consumers,
threatens taste, ingredients of America’s favorite food
(Burlingame, CA, April 11, 2007) – Forget the cola wars. The next struggle for American consumers’ hearts and minds is over a proposal to alter the “Gold Standard” for chocolate – the critical ingredients of what makes chocolate a food to die for.
A fourth generation maker of chocolate -- Gary Guittard, President of Guittard Chocolate Company of Burlingame, California -- is available for comment to discuss a grass roots fight against a proposal before the FDA to allow manufacturers of chocolate to replace cocoa butter – chocolate’s key ingredient – with chemically modified vegetable fats and still call it chocolate. The controversial proposal would allow
negative changes in the manner chocolate is made and the way it tastes, subverting a “Gold Standard” of manufacturing that has been in place for over sixty years.
Guittard is enlisting the public in a grass roots campaign -- “I want my chocolate to stay real chocolate” -- as the deadline for public comment to the Food & Drug Administration looms (April 25th), as he and his industry colleagues challenge a proposed number of content standards changes being considered by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These changes that would negatively alter the composition and
thereby the taste of America’s chocolate.
Gary Guittard is joining with other chocolate manufacturers in asking the FDA to reject the proposed food standard changes that will affect chocolate products and to have regulators enter into a broader public dialogue with the chocolate industry, consumers, consumer advocates, retailers, nutritionists, health experts, and others with an interest in preserving the quality, taste and content of traditional American “chocolate.”
Says fourth generation chocolatier Gary Guittard: “The chocolate industry prides itself on delivering to the consumer high quality products. The industry adheres to strict Federal Standards of Identity that were first established in the 1940’s and have only been changed since to reflect new manufacturing techniques in 1993 and again in 2002 to establish a Standard of Identity for white chocolate.”.
“The proposed FDA changes as they apply to chocolate [and] if adopted would allow the current “Gold Standard” for chocolate to be changed in a way that will ultimately result in short-changing the consumer and changing what we know and love as traditional chocolate,” Guittard says. “There are no clear consumer benefits associated with the proposed changes.”
“My family has been involved in the manufacturing of chocolate for 139 years,” notes Gary Guittard. “Chocolate is not just my business – it is my passion and these changes would lead the way to the manufacturing of something entirely different...that would not be the traditional chocolate that most of us know and love.”
“Beyond positive health benefits, chocolate has long been a food Americans have said ‘they would die for’ -- now this great food is being threatened by some in the industry who would favor replacing cocoa butter with far cheaper ingredients, which would in reality cheapen chocolate’s great taste, all in pursuit of shortchanging the consumer and putting that change in their own pockets.”
“We’re enlisting the public to step forward and demand that the proposed changes to the “Gold Standard” of Chocolate be stopped immediately,” notes Gary Guittard. “No one can afford to sit back and eat bon-bons while America’s great passion for chocolate is threatened. “We’re asking the public to sign /send an email petition or to phone or email the Food & Drug Administration.”
To contact Gary Guittard directly:
Gary Guittard
10 Guittard Road, Burlingame, CA 94010
Telephone: 1-800-468-2462
E-mail: Gary@Guittard.com
Web Site: www.guittard.com information also at:
http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/whatsthisabout.asp
Note: The deadline for submitting public comment to the US Food & Drug
Administration on the Citizens Petition of the Grocery Manufacturers Association is
April 25, 2007. Consumers can learn more at the Web site:
http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee
Lunch: Russo's ($5.17)
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Snack
4 Pieces Beef Jerky
1 Cameo Apple
Dinner
Fish
Cauliflower
FOLLOW UP FROM GUITTARD:
Fourth generation chocolatier challenges proposed FDA downgrades to
what makes chocolate what it is;
“Citizen’s Petition” proposal shortchanges consumers,
threatens taste, ingredients of America’s favorite food
(Burlingame, CA, April 11, 2007) – Forget the cola wars. The next struggle for American consumers’ hearts and minds is over a proposal to alter the “Gold Standard” for chocolate – the critical ingredients of what makes chocolate a food to die for.
A fourth generation maker of chocolate -- Gary Guittard, President of Guittard Chocolate Company of Burlingame, California -- is available for comment to discuss a grass roots fight against a proposal before the FDA to allow manufacturers of chocolate to replace cocoa butter – chocolate’s key ingredient – with chemically modified vegetable fats and still call it chocolate. The controversial proposal would allow
negative changes in the manner chocolate is made and the way it tastes, subverting a “Gold Standard” of manufacturing that has been in place for over sixty years.
Guittard is enlisting the public in a grass roots campaign -- “I want my chocolate to stay real chocolate” -- as the deadline for public comment to the Food & Drug Administration looms (April 25th), as he and his industry colleagues challenge a proposed number of content standards changes being considered by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These changes that would negatively alter the composition and
thereby the taste of America’s chocolate.
Gary Guittard is joining with other chocolate manufacturers in asking the FDA to reject the proposed food standard changes that will affect chocolate products and to have regulators enter into a broader public dialogue with the chocolate industry, consumers, consumer advocates, retailers, nutritionists, health experts, and others with an interest in preserving the quality, taste and content of traditional American “chocolate.”
Says fourth generation chocolatier Gary Guittard: “The chocolate industry prides itself on delivering to the consumer high quality products. The industry adheres to strict Federal Standards of Identity that were first established in the 1940’s and have only been changed since to reflect new manufacturing techniques in 1993 and again in 2002 to establish a Standard of Identity for white chocolate.”.
“The proposed FDA changes as they apply to chocolate [and] if adopted would allow the current “Gold Standard” for chocolate to be changed in a way that will ultimately result in short-changing the consumer and changing what we know and love as traditional chocolate,” Guittard says. “There are no clear consumer benefits associated with the proposed changes.”
“My family has been involved in the manufacturing of chocolate for 139 years,” notes Gary Guittard. “Chocolate is not just my business – it is my passion and these changes would lead the way to the manufacturing of something entirely different...that would not be the traditional chocolate that most of us know and love.”
“Beyond positive health benefits, chocolate has long been a food Americans have said ‘they would die for’ -- now this great food is being threatened by some in the industry who would favor replacing cocoa butter with far cheaper ingredients, which would in reality cheapen chocolate’s great taste, all in pursuit of shortchanging the consumer and putting that change in their own pockets.”
“We’re enlisting the public to step forward and demand that the proposed changes to the “Gold Standard” of Chocolate be stopped immediately,” notes Gary Guittard. “No one can afford to sit back and eat bon-bons while America’s great passion for chocolate is threatened. “We’re asking the public to sign /send an email petition or to phone or email the Food & Drug Administration.”
To contact Gary Guittard directly:
Gary Guittard
10 Guittard Road, Burlingame, CA 94010
Telephone: 1-800-468-2462
E-mail: Gary@Guittard.com
Web Site: www.guittard.com information also at:
http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/whatsthisabout.asp
Note: The deadline for submitting public comment to the US Food & Drug
Administration on the Citizens Petition of the Grocery Manufacturers Association is
April 25, 2007. Consumers can learn more at the Web site:
http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Year 3, Day 55: No Walk
Trying to break out of the breakfast rut. Today I had bread but I am trying to get back to eggs. All things being equal, they are quite complicated to add into the morning ritual. I have tried hard-boiling them on Monday and then eating them later but it's not very good. I mean I don't mind egg salad but trying to pass off cold hard boiled eggs as an appealing breakfast really takes some work. It's a lot easier to use the toaster for bread or skip all electronic devices completely (for the cereal option).
Breakfast
2 slices of Iggy's 7-Grain Bread (3 oz.)
Super Chunky Peanut Butter
2 oz 50% Jalapeno Cheddar
Lunch: Russo's ($5.67)
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Snack
4 Beef Jerky Sticks
1 Cameo Apple
Dinner
Olives
Turkey Crumble in Cabbage Leaves
A few Broccoli Stems
Perfect weather today, but no walk happened, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes work just gets in the way. I will try again tomorrow.
Breakfast
2 slices of Iggy's 7-Grain Bread (3 oz.)
Super Chunky Peanut Butter
2 oz 50% Jalapeno Cheddar
Lunch: Russo's ($5.67)
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini
Snack
4 Beef Jerky Sticks
1 Cameo Apple
Dinner
Olives
Turkey Crumble in Cabbage Leaves
A few Broccoli Stems
Perfect weather today, but no walk happened, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes work just gets in the way. I will try again tomorrow.
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