Basic Pursuits

There's been a dust-up over the publication of the results of a study inquiring into the eating habits of young kids and McDonald's.

Three to 5 year-olds tasted food served side by side in no packaging and in McDonald's packaging. The kids preferred the food packaged in McDonald's wrappings over unpackaged food even though both contained exactly the same food! Whether it was chicken mcnuggets or milk and carrots, if it was wrapped in a McDonald's wrapper, the kids liked the taste better.

I subscribe to a couple of email lists from the CRON Society. CRON stands for Calorie Restriction; Optimal Nutrition. The bottom line for this pioneering group is to strive to eat fewer calories; eat more nutritiously.

Your mother was right. Eat less. Eat better. The Calorie Restriction Society is certainly one of the world's great resources to help you do that.

Today I read an email from Gary Austin explaining why it's so hard to eat well in the modern world.