Does T-Day Turkey Put You Into a Narcoleptic Coma?
I’ve honestly had someone ask me whether they should be concerned. “I’m going over to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving. I’ll have a lot of turkey, but then I have to drive home. Won’t this make me go to sleep? Should I just plan to stay there for the night?”, as...
A Tasty T-Day Turkey Riddle. Please solve this for me.
Brining your turkey violates a basic law of science. Help me out with this. To explain what I mean, we’ll have to do the “Tasty T-Day Turkey Test”. But first, let’s establish what we know.Fact #1, in “science-speak”: Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable...
Wild Turkey VS Supermarket Turkey: Who’s the better bird?
Wonderful graphic from the World Science Festival. Follow @willclowerThey’ve made them gigantic, but at what cost? If you want to learn more about these amazing birds, here’s a PDF by the USDA on our remaining wild turkeys.As with all game, the meat will be richer, less likely to have...
Ask Will: No Time To Eat At Work
Dear Will I have no time to eat. No time. Like No.Time.To.Eat! What do I do?? Respectfully, No Time Is My Present Follow @willclower Dear No Time, Wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a place where we had 2 ½ hours to eat our lunch? Wouldn’t it...
Recipe For Good Health. First, Cook Your Own Food. Then, Eat It Together.
A principle we coach our people on is to “Return To The Family Table”, and “There Is Health In The Hearth.” This seems intuitively obvious, but is also backed up by research showing it to be true. Follow @willclowerThe National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (made up of 9,569 people, aged...
2 more HUGE reasons to give up sodas
Via @rodalenewsNeed another reason to put down that bottle of soda? We’ll give you two. A pair of studies published recently in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests America’s beloved fizzy drinks could be doing a real number on women’s health. In the first study, led by Harvard...
Ask Will: Should We Eat 5 Times Per Day?
Dear Will, Can you advise if eating five times throughout the day is better than eating three meals and no snacks? … I’m wondering if I should eat three balanced meals instead. ~Catherine Follow @willclowerDear Catherine, Thank you so much for this question … and your intuition is spot on! “Eat...
Americans diets are improving a bit (sort of)
The good news is that our diets have improved steadily over the past decade. The bad news, however, is that there is a disparity in overall dietary quality between different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, which continues to grow.Follow @willclower The study, conducted by a research team from the...
Okay, THIS is weird. Giving birth is more likely on some holidays than others.
What’s going on here? Look at the records of 1,676,217 births in the United States that occurred around Valentines Day (1 wk before through 1 wk after). Compare these birth records to 1,809,304 births in the United States that occurred around Halloween Day (1 wk before through 1 wk...
Does Eating Chocolate Lead To Greater Weight? Not according to 17 countries (see the data)
Conventional wisdom tells us that chocolate can be a problem for our weight and health. And it doesn’t really matter whether it’s dark chocolate or milk chocolate. While darker varieties have more cocoa butter (and so is higher in fat content) the milkier kinds have more sugar. In either...
One More Thing The Mediterranean Diet Is Good For!
The Mediterranean diet, with its real food and healthy oils, wine with meals, lack of processed foods or low fat food products has been shown to benefit so many conditions (memory, diabetes, childhood asthma, stroke, heart attack) so consistently, that you just expect it to be good for everything! Follow...
Why Dark Chocolate Is So Good For You. And What To Do About It.
By this time, everyone has heard how wonderful dark chocolate is for your heart, your head, your cholesterol, for cancer prevention, and even for your weight. But most of those health benefits come from a single place: it’s NOT the sugar, the wafer, the nougat, or any coco-licious food product...