Archive for July 31st, 2006

Everyone Knows This - Now, Can You Do It?

The Center for the Advancement of Health has recently published a report (see article in HealthDay)  that could be taken right out of the Hilton Head Health Institute’s playbook.  There’s only one sure thing you can do to age well:  live the healthy lifestyle.

And again, the issue isn’t that you don’t KNOW these things.  It’s that you don’t do them.  As Nancy Whitelaw of the Center for Healthy Aging puts it, “people know the message…the challenge is to make it operational in our daily lives.”

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Portion Control: Use Smaller Tableware

If you’ve been to H3I, you have heard a lot about portion control.  Now there’s a study reported in HealthDay (yes, research even on this) that says if you use smaller dishes, you will tend to eat smaller portions.  And smaller portions is a good thing.

Lead author Brian Wansink of Cornell University said “doubling the size of someone’s bowl increased how [food] much people took by 31 percent.”  If you are a member of the clean plate club like most of us are, that’s a 31 percent increase in calories, too.

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