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This is your brain on pumpkin pie

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Image credit: Evan Amos Thanksgiving is a special time in the United States when we gather our loved ones and celebrate the abundance of fall with a rich palette of traditional foods.  Yet a new study suggests that the 6-week holiday period that spans Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve accounts for most of our country’s weight problem ( 1 ).  Understanding this fact, and why it happens, gives us powerful insights into why we gain weight, and what to do about it. Elina Helander, a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University of Technology in Finland, and her colleagues set out to answer a simple question: how does a person’s body weight change over the course of the year?  To find out, they used internet-connected scales to collect daily body weight data from nearly 3,000 volunteers in the United States, Germany, and Japan.  After crunching the data, a striking pattern emerged: no matter what you celebrate, at any time of year, the holidays are likely to be your p

2016 Gratitude Jar

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Happy Thanksgiving Eve, friends! Our friends gave us a Gratitude Jar at the beginning of 2016 as a way to remember the little things we are thankful for throughout the year. I figured the eve of Thanksgiving would be the perfect time to share what we’ve accumulated throughout the year. FYI: Some didn’t include dates on them, so I just listed them at the bottom of the list. 1/8: Podcasts 1/8: A job that gives me time with my family 1/9: How Quinn says “soy sauce” 1/11: Remicade 1/13: How Quinn says “hello” 1/19: Murphy <3 1/13: Parking in the garage when it snows! 1/21: Golden Grahams 1/21: Chocolate-covered cashews from CVS 1/23: Quinn’s running hugs 2/9: Really good hospitals in Boston 2/13: Good neighbors 2/19: School vacation! 2/20: New books 4/8: Wrestling on the couch and laughing! 4/15: School break!! 6/11: When Quinn eats broccoli 6/13: Reading books with Quinn 7/15: Entyvio 7/22: Air conditioning 7/23: Living on the South Shore 7/25: Beaches nearb

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Will Soda in Your City Soon Cost More?

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Is it time for budget- and health-minded beverage buyers to switch to seltzer or stick to water? If you live in a growing number of U.S. cities , sucking down sodas and other sugary beverages will now cost you more, thanks to new taxes. Here’s a rundown of cities and counties that have enacted soda taxes, starting with five that did so just this month : Cook County, Ill.: The populous Illinois county that is home to Chicago will see a penny-per-ounce beverage tax — over and above the usual sales tax — added to the purchase of sweetened drinks such as soda, iced tea, lemonade and sports drinks, whether bottled, canned or from a fountain. The tax, which goes into effect July 1, was approved by the Cook County Board on Thursday, November 10, and is expected to raise $224 million in revenue per year. San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, Calif.: Voters in these Bay Area municipalities overwhelmingly passed soda taxes on Tuesday, November 8, in an effort to lower rates of diabetes and

Happy Thanksgiving

We have much to be grateful for: above all for the people in our lives; including the many PHD readers who have brought us joy. Thank you! Via David Warren, I came across this touching video (sadly, banned in France) … Read more » The post Happy Thanksgiving appeared first on Perfect Health Diet . from Perfect Health Diet http://ift.tt/2gfhMM7

Revisiting Intuitive Eating

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A few years back (well, almost 8 years ago actually…) I read the book Intuitive Eating and wrote a post about it . With the biggest meal of the year on the horizon, I thought it might be good timing to revisit the Intuitive Eating concepts and share how my thoughts and actions have or have not changed over time. In 2009 I summarized the steps to becoming an Intuitive Eater. Here are some of my 2016 thoughts. Honor your hunger – eat when you are hungry. Period. If I am hungry, I eat. But not always immediately, as hunger is the best sauce. I have learned that a little hunger is actually a good thing, and I always enjoy food more if I come to the table with an appetite. I used to write a lot about the battle between having an afternoon snack and spoiling my dinner appetite, and with time I’ve leaned more towards not having a snack and eating a bigger dinner. Or having just a tiny snack to take the edge off, rather than a big snack to avoid all hunger until 7:00 p.m. Make peac

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