If you are a big person who would like to get smaller, the “Diet for a Small Person” is for you. It’s the updated and micro version of Frances Moore Lappé’s 1971 best-seller, “Diet for a Small Planet.”

That book introduced the concept of complementary protein. While she pushed the idea too far, her emphasis on high quality protein remains valid today.
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You can make the best yogurt even better. Best of all, it takes very little effort.

The good yogurt is Greek-style. One big reason why is is better than the typical yogurt in supermarkets is that it’s lower in carbohydrates. They remove most of the high-carb whey from it.
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Don’t kid yourself. Losing weight can be an expensive proposition. I know.

It’s cost me many thousands of dollars in the two and one-half years since I started taking Byetta. And then when I started to eat low-carb last December, the costs went up.
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Like most people with diabetes, I have osteoarthritis. I know that I suffered from it two or three years ago. I can’t say that it’s cured now, but at least I don’t have any arthritis pain any more. When I saw a doctor in October 2005 about the pain in my left knee that kept me from hiking, he sent me to the local hospital for an x-ray. A few days later he called to give me the report. My knee problem is arthritis, he said at the time, according to the notes that I made then. “Will not go away. Normally take ibuprofen, but bad for the liver. Only thing to do is to lose weight.”

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Today we know the name of a previously unheard of sweetener, named Truvia. It’s pronounced Tru-VEE-a and promises to have a pronounced effect on the choice of sweeteners that many people use.

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The debate on whether the calories that people with or without diabetes drink help to make us feel full isn’t over. But the evidence that they don’t is mounting.

My preliminary article, “Drinking Calories,” appeared here last September. At that time I reported on the finding of obesity researcher Barbara Rolls. “Calorie intake increased significantly when people drank a beverage containing 150 calories with lunch, compared to when they had a calorie-free beverage.”
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Our national obesity epidemic didn’t just happen. The people who study the statistics agree with Dr. David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School that before the early 1970s, the prevalence of obesity was relatively constant in the United States. As he told the 63rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association since then there has been a dramatic increase.
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Just before lunch this afternoon I checked out the new FreeStyle Freedom Lite blood glucose monitoring system from Abbott Diabetes Care. The company’s public relations firm, Fleishman-Hillard, was nice enough to send me one of the first of these cute little meters and 10 test strips.
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