Thankfully this holiday weekend has been filled with lots of meals with friends: dinner at Sushi Aka on Thursday, lunch at Amici's yesterday then dinner with my cousin Brad & his wife Heidi (yummy asparagus & shrimp risotto topped with fresh parsley & sliced cherry tomatoes), dinner with Randy & Kim today, and lunch with Kirk & Mary after church tomorrow. Whew!
Since I was traveling, I missed last week's reading list, so here are a few articles of interest from the past 10-12 days. Enjoy!
1. "The food-mood connection" from the LATimes
"Particular foods have been shown to boost the production of these neurotransmitters but usually not by enough to make a perceptible difference in the brain. In fact, science has shot down most of the food-mood links accepted as conventional wisdom and perpetuated by self-proclaimed nutrition experts. ... Still, people have an insatiable craving to believe that eating certain things will boost mental focus, attitude or energy. And believing may just be the best shot at a food-mood connection."
2. "How Ultra-Processed Foods Are Killing Us" by Marion Nestle in The Atlantic
Gotta love the sensationalist headline, but there's some truth to the story.
3. "Meat industry unhappy over limiting the use of antibiotics" from The Washington Post
4. "Eating almonds can help to fight off viruses" from the Telegraph (UK)
My cousin-in-law Jenna starts every morning with a handful of almonds and a probiotic.
5. Attention, Ladies: Are we running out of chocolate?
- "Chocolate: Worth its weight in gold" from the Independent (UK)
- "In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be a Rare Delicacy" from Popular Science
6. Just for fun: "Carl Warner's Edible Landscapes" from NPR
7. Following up on my earlier post about salt/sodium ...
- "Dietary Guidelines may reduce allowance for salt and sodium" from The Washington Post
- "Is 1,500 mg of sodium a realistic goal?" from The Checkup blog on WashingtonPost.com
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