Does your brain tell you your bigger than you are?

On perusing the internet I came across an interesting article which I think has huge implications for our body image and perception of ourselves.  I was reading about the parietal lobe, which is a lobe in the brain that is responsible for integrating sensory information and amongst other things is where your sense of body [...]

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America’s calorie deficit

Here is something interesting I read the other day. Did you know that in America for every calorie of food that is eaten it actually cost seven calories to make that one calorie. Generally from fossil fuels ie petroleum. But this does not make logical sense does it? No other organism on this planet could [...]

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Is cholesterol bad for you?

In my last post I got a number of comments about cholesterol. In that post I commented about the landmark study by Keys which established two premises  1) that saturated fats cause a raise in cholesterol and 2) that cholesterol causes heart disease. In the last post I discussed the first premise and now in [...]

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In defense of saturated fat

Did you know that the fact that saturated fat is linked with heart disease is actually not a fact at all and this link remains unproven? This ‘fact’ was set up in 1953 by Dr Ancel Keys who compared fat intake and mortality in six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, England, Italy and Japan. What [...]

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People are saying NO to diets

While I was reading big fat deal they had a wonderful blog posted from the New York Times on the Slow Food movement. Here are some exciting and interesting excerpts that are both encouraging and exciting. 
The market research firm NPD Group gets a glimpse of national eating habits through the food diaries it has collected [...]

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Introducing Anika Moa

Here is my favourite artist at the moment. There are many reasons why I think she is great. Not only has she got an amazing voice but also she is from New Zealand and she is a largish yet beautiful lady. She is also Maori and that is why in this video you can see Maori [...]

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Cravings or Hunger?

Intuitive eating is such a difficult thing to do. The basic premise of course is eat when you are hungry. But this I find is the most difficult part. I think there is a part of me that is always hungry. I can always feel hungry even if I am physically full. But then is [...]

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Change of scenery

In case you have not noticed I am very fickle and get bored easy. As it stands Im beginning to get bored at the look of this blog. Im happy with whats in it!!!! Also I find what I write about keeps changing and so I want a more general blog that I can talk [...]

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Pig in a trough

So I thought I would give everyone an update on my eating patterns. I have only been eating when hungry. Truly hungry. At first it was quite scary because every other time I have attempted to do this I get really anxious and want to eat because I feel Im starving myself. A return to [...]

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