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Girl Scout Cookie Time - The Latest Waistline Challenge
It is Girl Scout cookie time, which is an annual excuse to eat for a good cause. Faced with eager young entrepreneurs hovering near card tables stacked with boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and Peanut Butter Patties, even a super model would be hard pressed not to stock up. So when Kimberly Kilpatrick offered to help [...]
Continue reading...Nutrition advice
Posted by Peggy Winburne on Mon, Jan 7, 2008
We’re hosting an online conversation with registered dietitian Ashley Hofeditz this week. Got a question about how to eat more healthfully in 2008? Ask it here. She’ll check the blog and respond. Haven’t read her story yet. Go to http://commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jan/07/eating-right/
Continue reading...Heart Association Urges Folks to Get Started
Posted by Mary Powers on Thu, Jan 3, 2008
Here is help for anyone still looking for help fulfilling New Year’s resolutions to get fit and eat healthier. The American Heart Association’s free online My Start! program offers exercise tips, nutritional advice and other information plus a weekly summary of how your energy in (food) compares with your energy out (exercise). To check it out, log [...]
Continue reading...Help With Folic Acid
Posted by Mary Powers on Mon, Dec 31, 2007
Here is one New Year’s resolution public health officials are encouraging women of child-bearing age to make - eat a diet rich in folic acid. That is the B vitamin found in dark leafy vegetables, dried beans, citrus fruit and such enriched products as bread, flour, macaroni and cereals. Women who get enough folic acid [...]
Continue reading...More Dr. Gott
Posted by Peggy Winburne on Fri, Dec 14, 2007
Loyal fans of Dr. Peter Gott, whose medical advice column runs in The Commercial Appeal, have heard him talk about his no-nonsense diet for years. He calls it the No Flour, No Sugar Diet. His book by the same name was a New York Times best-seller. On Jan. 4 comes his latest book designed to [...]
Continue reading...Diet and Excerise Again Linked to Longevity
Posted by Mary Powers on Tue, Dec 11, 2007
Anyone looking for motivation this holiday season should check out the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. It includes results from two large federal studies linking exercise and a Mediterranean diet with a reduced risk of death. Investigators reached that conclusion after reviewing nearly 400,000 questionnaires completed between 1995 and 1996. The focus was [...]
Continue reading...Does Fasting Help Protect Against Heart Disease?
Posted by Mary Powers on Mon, Dec 10, 2007
When it comes to health, count me as a fasting skeptic. Fasting for spiritual reasons I understand. But fasting for weight loss or to rid the body of unspecific toxins seems a waste of perfectly good will power. Now comes research from the University of Utah and the Intermountain Medical Center that has me re-evaluating. According to Associated [...]
Continue reading...Celebrate National Handwashing Week And Take The Quizz
Posted by Mary Powers on Wed, Dec 5, 2007
It is National Handwashing Week and here at the Healthy Memphis blog we’ve decided to mark the occasion with a pop quiz. Before you scoff and click over to John Beifuss’ Bloodshot Eye movie blog, take a minute and test your knowledge. 1. According to the Memphis & Shelby County Health Department, which is the better [...]
Continue reading...Portion distortion
Posted by Peggy Winburne on Mon, Nov 19, 2007
We’re hosting an online conversation this week with Whitney Orth, a registered dietitian who helps patients at UT Medical Group’s Weight Management Center and at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She will answer questions about ways to improve diet and nutrition, and offer ideas on how to avoid overeating and temptation, including avoiding portion [...]
Continue reading...How you slice it
Posted by Peggy Winburne on Fri, Nov 16, 2007
We’re closing on prime pie-eating time. And while we don’t want to stifle the slice, we do want to help you be an informed consumer. Here’s some food for thought from Self magazine’s November issue The magazine offered calorie counts for five kinds of pie, at least some of which you’ll probably face on Thursday. (The nutrition [...]
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Posted by Mary Powers on Thu, Jan 17, 2008
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