Some of you already know that I’ve been blessed with daughter who doesn’t like most sugary foods. It doesn’t matter if it is ice cream, candy, chocolate, pies—with the exception of blueberry muffins and yellow cake with no frosting, my four-year-old has little-to-no interest in sweets.
She would rather have fresh berries, apples, clementine oranges, chilled more
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The Fat Diaries: Can You Enjoy Halloween Without Candy?
Monica Marier wrote on October 28th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
The Fat Diaries: Running to Fight a Vitamin D Deficiency
Monica Marier wrote on October 21st, 2011 at 5:30 pm
This week we went from bright and sunny to grey, windy and freaking cold. My kind of weather!
After hiding from summer for four months, my desire to run around outdoors with airplane arms going “whee” finally came to fruition. On days where you need headlights to see at 2 pm; when the wind feels like it more
Herman Cain: High-Carb Candidate
Monica Marier wrote on October 18th, 2011 at 12:49 am
My editor showed me this video from the 1991 Omaha Press Club. It features Herman Cain singing his own pizza-themed lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
I don’t know where to start. more
The Fat Diaries: Food Pantries Finally Get the Publicity They Need
Monica Marier wrote on October 15th, 2011 at 2:34 am
The Sesame Street special on hunger in America (which I discussed last week) “Growing Hope Against Hunger” aired on October 2nd and I was able to catch 99% of it. The missing 1% was due to my kids fighting over a large cardboard box that our new air filter just came in. Not even Elmo more
Sesame Street Confronts Child Hunger
Monica Marier wrote on October 8th, 2011 at 1:10 am
Sesame Street is introducing a new Muppet to the famous fictional New York block. Unlike most of her felt playmates, Lily is a seven-year-old kid whose family lives in poverty. She doesn’t always have enough food to eat and she’s ashamed of that fact. A very special episode of Sesame Street, “Growing Hope Against Hunger” more
The Fat Diaries: It’s a Struggle Keeping Out Bad Influences
Monica Marier wrote on September 30th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
My kids are finally reaching that age where I’m not involved in every aspect of their life. A few years ago I decided what they ate for breakfast lunch and dinner. I came up with, or at least supervised every activity they pursued. I enforced good manners from the moment they woke up to the more
The Fat Diaries: Do We Really Need New Ways to Eat Ketchup?
Monica Marier wrote on September 23rd, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Heinz recently announced that they’ve changed their age-old design for ketchup packets. Traditionally if one wanted ketchup at a fast food chain your ketchup would come in a sealed foil pouch. It was then up to you to open the darn thing using fingers, teeth, acetylene torches, and/or chainsaws. You then had to figure out more
The Fat Diaries: The Cupcake Ban Hits the School Front
Monica Marier wrote on September 16th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
My kid’s back-to-school night was this week. I was in a bright room of forty adults sitting on little weenie chairs, looking like the little lost five-year olds we sent into the unknown two weeks ago. The teacher stood at the front of the class and talked to us.
We went over the new-new-new grading system more
The Fat Diaries: Taking a Stand Against Immobility
Monica Marier wrote on September 9th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Believe it or not, occasionally I talk about exercise as well as diet in this column. I know it’s kind of the elephant in the room as far as American health goes, and it’d be nice to say that a good diet alone can solve any problem, but that’s simply not the case. I abhor more
The Fat Diaries: My Weight-Loss Partner
Monica Marier wrote on September 2nd, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I never expected to meet the man I was going to marry at age 20. Marriage is something we think we’ll contemplate when we’re older and wiser, like 25. After dating my husband Joe for a month or two, I pretty much knew this was the guy I wanted to be around for the rest more
The Fat Diaries: Learning to Love the FDA’s Diet Plate
Monica Marier wrote on August 19th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I think it is time to address an article I wrote a while ago. If you usually read this column, you know that it’s in my nature to be cynical and suspicious of everything new and different. Case in point: my article about the new food plate.
I gave this little icon of a plate divided more
The Fat Diaries: Drawing the Line at 1% Milk
Monica Marier wrote on August 12th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Summer is almost over and the weather has gone from molten to within mortal endurance. I’ve been going outside a little more, and began to examine my diet again to make sure I was on the right track. Sadly, my rock-hard zero tolerance for goodies has softened a little. I wondered if I could make up more
The Fat Diaries: Can Kids Resist the Sugar Temptation?
Monica Marier wrote on August 5th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I was in Wal*Mart the other day when I caught a glimpse of a loud group of kids behind me. They were tweens. They wore sports jerseys and I was surprised to see their pants were worn at “regulation” height. Apart from the one kid with the “Predator” dreadlocks, they all looked like clean-cut nice more
The Fat Diaries: How to Eat Healthy on the Road
Monica Marier wrote on July 22nd, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Recently hit the road again, this time to attend a trade convention in Fort Wayne, IN—which means another trip involving lots of fast food. The stormy weather was hell-bent on pursuing us thus many meals were consumed in the parking lots of fast food restaurants. And more to my shame (or maybe my pride) a more
The Fat Diaries: Is Obesity Child Abuse?
Monica Marier wrote on July 15th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Should the state be able to intervene when parents are raising obese children? more
The Fat Diaries: Competitive Eating is Nothing to Cheer About
Monica Marier wrote on July 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Does scarfing 20,000 calories in 10 minutes make one worthy of fame and fortune? Of course not. more
The Fat Diaries: Food Stamps for Junk Food?
Monica Marier wrote on July 1st, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Who really benefits when we allow food stamps to be used at fast food restaurants? more
The Fat Diaries: Charging By The Glass For Tap Water
Monica Marier wrote on June 24th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
An Australian restaurant wanted to reduce its carbon footprint by cutting back on plastic water bottles. So it started charging $5 a glass for tap water. more
The Fat Diaries: Luring Kids To Healthy Snacks
Monica Marier wrote on June 17th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
My kids descend on me like ravenous seagulls whenever I have a snack. I learned to use this behavior to my advantage, though, by substituting fruits and vegetables for goodies. more
The Fat Diaries: The Supermarket Field Trip
Monica Marier wrote on June 10th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Suddenly everything was going all wrong! I didn’t want her to equate junk food with fat, I just wanted her to equate good food with healthy. more
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