It’s been a while since I’ve done a “Link Love” post. Now that I have the Droid, I’m more likely to be reading blogs and tweets that I like on the phone than the computer — and that makes it tougher to share links.
Without further delay, here are some of the links I’ve been loving lately.
— From the folks at Women’s (!) Health: A list of 20 habits that are making you fat. No. 1? Eating low-fat. They say:
Stop buying foods marketed as low-fat or fat-free. Typically, they save you only a few calories and, in doing so, they replace harmless fats with low-performing carbohydrates that digest quickly — causing a sugar rush and, immediately afterward, rebound hunger.
Vindication … for me and Dr. Atkins. In his “New Diet Revolution,” he insisted on using full-fat versions of things like mayonnaise because manufacturers add sugar to lower-fat ones to make up for the loss of fat.
Nos. 5, 7, 9 and 10 hit home, too. And I still struggle with 15, “not drinking enough water.”
Oh, heck, 18 gets me, too: Not using a scale. The claim: “Looking at your body weight reinforces weight-loss goals and makes it difficult to cheat your diet.” I believe it. When I’m not weighing regularly, I’m more able to justify poor choices. (If I don’t know how much I weigh, I can keep eating crap.)
— I’ve seen a couple of mentions of a study finding that bigger forks cause people to eat less. Interesting, to be sure … even if it seems to contradict conventional wisdom. I mean, I’m always hearing you should eat off smaller plates, so doesn’t it also stand to reason that you should use a smaller fork?
Since reading this info, I’ve gone back to using a regular-sized fork instead of a salad fork for all my meals. I don’t think it makes a difference — but I could be wrong.
— Over at Peanut Butter Fingers, Julie posted this fantastic pronunciation guide for several commonly misprounounced foods. Considering I’m one of those people who goes crazy hearing nuclear pronounced “nuk-u-lar” and supposedly “supposably,” I appreciated this one. I’d hate to drive people bonkers by mispronouncing “gyros” or “bruschetta.”
— Mary from A Merry Life posted a link to 10 exercise myths that won’t go away. I know I’m guilty of believing one or two of them. How about you?
— Just for fun, The Daily Beast published a list of the 20 most useless degrees. Guess what tops the list: Journalism. Makes me feel good about my four years of college and 10 years of student loan payback.
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