Tag Archives: Eating

Navigating Holiday Eating

Every time the holiday season approaches, I invariably encounter questions about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle or receive requests for advice on preventing weight gain during this festive period.

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Less Sleep = More Snacking

Not meeting sleep recommendations impacts not only how much you eat, but the types of food you eat

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Eating After Cancer

A poor diet can lead to cancer, and poor diet is more common even after battling cancer

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Eating for Endurance

[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ating for the long run – without ‘hitting the wall’ “Hitting the wall” and “bonking” These terms are used to describe what happens when your muscles literally run out of fuel, or muscle glycogen. It usually occurs around mile 20 or so, and has been described as the following: “It felt like an elephant had […]

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Health Halo Effect

rd411 Health Halo Effect Simply put, the health halo effect leads people to overestimate the overall healthfulness of a food based on one narrow attribute. Health halos are proven to cause people to eat more food than they intended, such as eating two organic cookies when you would normally only eat one nonorganic cookie. Studies […]

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