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Why we snack

By Jim June 29, 2011

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Do we eat more because we eat more often? Yes, says a study that claims Americans eat 570 more calories per day now than they did 30 years ago because they are eating all of the time. The study's lead author, Professor Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told CNN Health that "the real reason we seem to be eating more (calories) is we're eating often."  But is eating frequency all there is to it, or does what a person eats make a difference? To say we are eating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Media Watch, News & Commentary Tagged With: carbs, high-carb, low-carb, observational study, snacks

American teens’ drinking problem: too much sugar

By Jim June 18, 2011

A survey released by the CDC this week shows that U.S. high school students are getting plenty of carbs and calories in liquid form each day.  More than 11,000 students were asked what beverages they had consumed one or more times per day during the previous week. Most news reports focused on the 25% of all teens who said they drank pop every day.  But from the standpoint of obesity, 100% fruit juice and other sweet beverages are no better. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News & Commentary Tagged With: beverages, carbs, CDC, survey, teen diet habits

Get Rosie a beer

By Jim June 17, 2011

Today, I washed down my frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts (made by the United Steelworkers) with two excellent union-made beers: Schell’s Zommerfest from New Ulm, Minn., a local farming community just under two hours from Minneapolis, and Leinenkugel’s, from Chippewa Falls, Wis. --Manny Herrmann, Choose Union: Raise a Glass for the Working Class, June 16, 2011. I'm not sure what disturbed me the most about this quotation from an AFL-CIO blog: that the United Steelworkers have been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Reflection Tagged With: beer, carbs, pastry, union-made

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