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Eat a Brownie and Overdose on Melatonin
Did you catch the NYT front page article yesterday on new snacks that deliver a walloping dose of the hormone melatonin? 8 mg per brownie. People, this is massive. This is madness. And it’s available at Walmart, 7-Eleven and the Harvard Coop. Where’s the voice of reason, here? Even the NYT seemed to think it…
Are Vegans Low in Irony?
I’m flirting with veganism, again. Seems every Spring I feel a recurring stirring. A gentle tug to eat differently. I consider the sweet mother cows whose babies are taken from them so they can produce tons of milk for you and me (and not their calves). But before I go all Alicia Silverstone on you,…
Reframe Food with Reverence and Restraint
It’s time to stop the madness with weight and food. Women aspire to thinness and this leads to distorted relationship to eating. We seek peace with food, yet we’re going about it all wrong. We starve ourselves on a new diet each Monday, and then binge by the weekend. Eighty percent of American women are on a…