I’m writing this because nearly every day someone finds my blog by typing the question ‘how can I eat normally?’ into a search engine. This is, to me, equal parts sad and inspiring.
We’ll start with a definition: Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT), which is what a clinical dietitian practices to address a specific disease or condition, [...]

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With a special appearance by Maria Callas. See if you can spot her.

So, as an upcoming project for one of my classes, I have to do a food demonstration that translates a nutrition concept (such as “encouraging consumers to adopt new food ideas”) while demonstrating my skillz in teh kitchenz.
In the past, I’ve done slide-shows of penis-shaped vegetables, and written lab reports referring to the mysterious [...]

Did someone say “third piece of pie“?
I’d like to say something about how much fat people eat. I, personally, would be neither surprised nor offended if it were somehow proven that fat people, on average, eat more than thinner people. Of course, this hasn’t been proven, and if it were, there would be exceptions and [...]

Here is a very interesting article about the history of nutrition as a science, and the rise of “nutritionism,” from the New York Times, about a year ago, which I am reading for school.
A little taste:
The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal [...]

A famous actress was quoted in the newspaper regarding a role that required her to gain weight. Something about the quote struck me as odd. To paraphrase, she said, “Sure, it sounds great to gain weight. You can indulge all your fantasies of endless chocolate, unlimited pasta and garlic bread…but after a while your blood [...]

Some interesting tidbits while I study for my biochemistry final:
-When your body breaks down carbohydrates for energy, it converts glucose into fructose (and then other things, but that’s one of the first steps of glucose breakdown, aka glycolysis.) So it’s not really true that “your body doesn’t know what to do with fructose!” because when [...]

The most graphic representation of the “What the Hell” effect. Thank God for The Kids in the Hall.
(Also, this.)

I’m starting this blog because all of the things I think about fat and nutrition keep seeping over into my other blog, which is a poetry blog, in which I write whiny awful poetry, and this kind of fraternizing just won’t do.
Here is where I will post my rambling rants on anything that bugs the [...]

Mary Bush, “the director general for Health Canada’s office of nutrition and planning,” visited my nutrition class yesterday. I loved her.
Recently, she’s taken a lot of flack for revising Canada’s Food Guide. For example, changing the range of fruit & vegetable servings from 5-10 to 4-9 (not to discourage people from eating fruits and vegetables, [...]

Maybe I am a glutton for punishment, but, this afternoon, I couldn’t resist the temptation to watch the show “You Are What You Eat” with Dr. Gillian McKeith.
I didn’t hear a whole lot of information spouted, but the general gist of the show was that she took a woman whose diet consisted almost entirely of [...]

I’ve spent most of this morning dancing around to mid-60s British invasion music in my bathrobe. In front of the big window where the neighbours can see in. Take that, neighbours!
I guess I am very happy that my paper is finished and turned in, and all I have to do now is some minimal preparation [...]

I stayed up until 6:30am working on my paper the other night. Whatever night that was. The last time I posted. I think the 8th/9th.
I’m quickly losing track of days.
Here’s an excerpt (remember, rough draft still):

For the finding that Hispanic and Asian girls had lower levels of strenuous activity, the authors offer the explanation that [...]

I’m doing this critical analysis of a random research study I dredged out of the depths of some online peer-reviewed search engine. I just had to find something, anything, using race or ethnicity as a variable related to some nutrition topic.
The paper I decided to use, PURELY because it was only three pages long and [...]

I ended up writing this unintentional mini-essay about a proposed traffic light labelling system for foods in response to some discussion at Big Fat Blog. (Green = eat as much as you want, yellow = eat with caution, red = eat only rarely. This is what I assume the definitions are, anyway. The original article [...]