Does Law & Order Trigger Overeating?

Monday, June 30, 2008  12:08 pm

I admit it – I watch Law & Order. Actually, what I watch is the last half-hour when, like clockwork, it transitions from the street to the courtroom. I love rightous Jack – he reminds me of the passionate do-gooders from my public health days. And I do love knowing that no matter what, by the top of the hour, they’ll have a verdict and a moral. BUM-BUM.
I recently joined a writing bank called suite 101, and came across this article written by one of the other writers on the site. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen writes about psychology and health, and her report on a recent study suggesting that watching television shows that show or discuss murder make us dwell somewhere in our psyche on our own demise. That makes us nervous and that makes us eat.

I can’t say that how it happens in my own life, but take a read of her interesting piece here.

This Week in Food & Wellness

Thursday, June 12, 2008  10:39 am

Here’s some stuff from last week -

It seems that after a decade of escalating childhood obesity rates we’ve leveled off. I think that schools and parents now understand the food environment kids are in, and education is shifting so that kids learn to be better consumers – something they really never had to do before this epidemic with relation to food.

Recent Data Gives Hope in Childhood Obesity – New York Times

Nothing like a scoop on a warm day…

The Scoop on Fattening Ice Cream Flavors – New York Times/Newsweek