Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Vegetables and Dinners
It’s been a light blogging week for me. My attention has been taken up by our new Balance2health clinic website. It’s nearly, nearly ready and should be fully functioning next week.
Which means I’ll have that bit of spare time back, which I need for blogging. In the meantime – here’s the usual Friday Quicklinks.
- Re-gaining weight: Short piece at Weighty Matters on why Oprah regained her weight. We don’t usually talk celebrities and gossip here at Limes & Lycopene, but I liked Yoni Freedhoff’s comment: “the way you live is a choice and not a purchase”.
- Cooking from the pantry: It was too late to be included in the latest Pantry Challenge. Nevertheless Planet Green has put together a great pantry meal: pasta with tuna, beans and peas.
- Christmas menu ideas: Melanie of Dietriffic fame has put together some good thoughts on eating a bit healthier this Christmas. She also promotes the 50/25/25 guide and has included some lovely menu suggestions.
- Who loses on the Biggest Loser: Over at Cranky Fitness Merry watches The Biggest Loser and wonders why it’s seen as a positive show?
- Yet more reasons to eat fruit and vegies: Should you require any more convincing, research this week suggests along with all the other benefits eating vegies may be good for your bones.
- Would you eat an insect? My favourite headline this week was Open another can of worms, dear. It’s an interesting piece from the Guardian on attitudes to what food is, and how we regard food from some other cultures.
- Vegie-full chilli: Lovely, lovely looking recipe from Food Blogga. It’s a Chilli with zucchini, capsicum, corn, red kidney beans, tomatoes and lean mincemeat. And Susan’s photos are beautiful. The recipe is here.
Photograph by Woowoowoo
12 December, 2008
Comments
I think one of the reasons I (and millions of others) love Oprah is because, despite having more money than all of Canada at the moment, she is still human in her eating habits. Once on the show (during a slim phase), one of the audience members challenged her: “Well, sure, it’s easy to lose weight when you’ve got a personal chef cooking only healthy foods for you.” Oprah’s reply was, “Well, I’m still the one who decides whether or not to put it in my mouth.” She totally acknowledged that she is the one who has to decide whether or not to overeat. Sadly, I go through the same ups and downs re: weight—but I figure, if Oprah can do it, I can do it. . . .
Hi Kathryn,
Thank you for linking to my post!
I love the article by Cranky Fitness – I think the Biggest Loser is more about viewers than a sensible weight loss plan. I used to think it was great to see them lose so much weight, but when you look into it a bit further and see the methods they use, it becomes clearer that it’s a ‘competition!’ And a dangerous one at that!
It’s interesting though that one of the guys from Australia who won a few years back (can’t remember his name, he promotes Subway) has still maintained his weight loss. I don’t know about the other contestants, but for him it was a positive experience.
What are your views on the show?
I have to pipe in about eating insects after snacking in Mexico on fried grasshoppers, chiqalittas, I believe they were called. They were delicious and great with guacamole. Good protein everyone kept saying. I did not however eat the occassional worm that was in the mix.
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