Just Like Mom Said

My Numbers Early in the Morning:

• Fasting Blood Glucose:  100 mg/dl.
• Weight: 189ish.
• Exercise:  45 minute bike ride.
• Mood:  7.5  Friday Eve, good, tax preparation night, bad.April 15 is this weekend.

Menu:

•  Breakfast: Fruit medley of a banana, grapefruit and strawberries, oatmeal with craisins. 
• Lunch: Leftover Southwest Four Bean Chili and brown rice from last night.
• Pizza (Our Thursday night tradition).
• Snacks:

Big Diet News
Eating less, low fat and exercise is probably the most effective weight loss program, just like Mom said.  Go figure.  Popular diets (like Adkins?), over-the-counter diet pills, liquid diets, diet food and products were not effective as ways to lose weight.  The article also notes that a structured approach, such a diet program from Weight Watchers, helped a lot.

Gee, effective, safe, inexpensive, simple, common sense.  How do you make any money off of that?

Low Energy Foods are Best Foods to Lose and Keep Off the Weight
In a related story, research shows that the best way to lose and keep the weight off is to eat low energy density foods.  Low energy density foods are fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low fat animal protein sources. You know, the usual healthy foods that are low in fat, saturated fat and sugar, just like Mom said to eat.

Cheap, High  Calorie Food is Linked to Obesity
And more from the Common Sense Department, eating a lot of highly fattening foods will make you fat.

Read the article here.  Is this the beginnings of refutation of Adkins-type diets?

This article delves into the neuroscience of why tasty and cheap foods appeal to our brains.

Maybe because they are cheap and tasty?

10 Super Foods for Diabetics
I generally don't buy the super food bit.  Anything that fits the profile of a food for a healthy diet, diet as a regimen, what we should eat as a matter of course, could be considered a super food. That said here are 10 Super Food for Diabetics. All fall into the low fat,  low energy density category. 

I just wish Doritos fit the profile of a healthy, low fat, low energy density food.  Didn't seem to cause the inventor of them, Arch West,  any harm.  He ate them every day and lived to be 97. That's one year longer than Jack LaLanne who seemed to eat a lot of low fat, low energy density foods.