Archive for the 'Diet' Category

Some surprising advices to live to 100

EHM published a funny list of advices to help live to 100 years: How to live to 100 | GDS Publishing via kwout

Seasonality Chart

A seasonality chart to found the right fruits, vegetables and herbs to eat according the season: Seasonal food chart | Life and style | guardian.co.uk via kwout Seasonal food chart | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

Appetizers ideas from the New York Times

The New York Times published a list of appetizers that can be prepared in less than 20 minutes. This gives some good ideas for holiday season’s parties.  

Why French people don’t get fat?

In this Santa Barbara Independent article, there is an interesting explanation of why French don’t get fat whereas "they eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do." The article author Michael Seabaugh quotes  Laurence Hauben an expert on the subject: “The French don’t traditionally wolf down a meal at their desk or while [...]

Hungry Planet: What the world eats, Part II

Time published here a set of photographs from  a book by by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. The concept is to show a family from different countries with the food they eat. The french family’s photograph is linked below:

What do 120, 200 or 300 calories look like?

Here are some links to figure out what do 120, 200 or 300 calories look like: 120 calories: 200 calories: 300 calories:

Rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accross the globe

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.