Days of Being Thankful

One of the things that I am most grateful for is the opportunity to pursue a terminal degree - I know that sounds funny, but it means the highest academic degree in a certain field.  
It is this chance to earn a doctorate in public health that keeps me away from family this Thanksgiving weekend.  
I have a lot of work to do and I will not be lonely or bored but I will be melancholy and miss being with those that I love so much.
 It also has occurred to me that most people who read my blog on a regular basis, surely more than half, are living in the US and will be traveling to be with family or entertaining family in their homes.  

That being said, I should probably take a few days off from blogging - not as much to save time as to save ideas.  I think that blog reading is not on many agendas for the rest of this week.  I might as well save my thoughts for when people will read them.  I do need to get some YouTube videos made and finish my final projects for this semester, in the meantime.  And this may come as a shocker, but I am going to miss my second day of swimming this week.  Never saw that coming!


I will leave you with one more article related to the school lunch SCANDAL.  This article is from the Harvard School of Public Health.


(enjoy your feasting and don't make your belly hurt by eating too much - remember it's bad for the heart to super, over indulge - and I mean it is bad at the moment -acutely- makes it work too hard)

Why the NSLP Matters to Everyone

NSLP is the National School Lunch Program.  Earlier this year I blogged about the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the alignment mandate that has long existed between the two.  I mean that the meals that are fed to the children are supposed to meet these guidelines.  If you recall, the DGAs call for the increase of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, good fats(oils) and the limit of calories, salt, saturated fat and added sugar.  For the first time, the DGAs discuss the difference in quality amongst vegetables.  This is something that was evident in the food pyramid from Walter Willett and Harvard that I posted many years ago and several times.  The problem is potatoes and starchy vegetables such as corn and peas.  Because of their lesser status, the school lunch program has to limit them.

There is a great post about this on the Harvard School of Public Health's website.  I receive their newsletter and became aware of this post today.  It makes far more sense for me to share the page with you then to try and restate it here.  

The point of my title today is that what is being done with the school lunch program is something we should all be doing -limiting foods that are higher in calories and which have a composition that is not the best for our metabolic system (insulin and such)

PLEASE read more here.