Annie’s Healthy Weight & Eating Blog

What a sad state that organic spinach was the source of the latest break of e-coli. While we may never know the root cause of the outbreak, the government got decent grades for their quick response.

The USDA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) both suggest that we refrain from eating fresh packaged spinach until the investigation has been completed. In the meantime, it’s a great time to remember again to buy local, throughouly wash all produce, and peel it when you can, cook it when you can. Would these steps have prevented the outbreak? Cooking would have, but the others, its still hard to say.

To hear more about what CSPI has to say about the outbreak, check www.cspinet.org

The big story out of fashion week in Milan was the banning of models with BMI of less than 18. A BMI of 18.5 is considered underweight. So just how thin are the too-thin models? For a 5′8″ woman, a BMI of 18 would put you at 120#. If you are 5′4″, weight 105# to make an 18, and if you are 5″2″, you’ll need to be 99# to have a BMI of 18.

Overall, I think this is great news for women everywhere. Other cities are considering following suit. Unhealthy just insn’t beautiful. I hope this incident sparks a trend.

You can follow the headlines on this at:

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=13488541&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

For those of you who’ve known for years (and years and years) that I’ve been working on a book combining yoga and nutrition for weight management, hang tight because it’s very very close to being available.

At this point, books will be available to ship in early November. The book cover is beautiful to look at (thanks for designer Peri Poloni-Gabriel of Knockout Books, www.knockoutbooks.com), and the whole package came together with the help of many many people, but Ellen Reid, (www.bookshep.com) really helped launch the project into the world. I’m eternally grateful to these women, and to many more folks whom helped me along the long road to beautiful-book-in-hand.

You can see some of the artwork and read the introduction on my website, www.anniekbay.com. And you can pre-order the book - we’ll pick up the shipping and handling of books you order now, and you won’t be charged until they actually ship. Please note that our site is soon to be up and running…as of this writing, it’s not quite up…

Much more to come…

Annie