Author: Michelle

  • The rules of nutrition.

    French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. First rule of nutrition: eat or die. Second rule of nutrition: there are no other rules. This is not something you are likely ever to hear from someone in my field, since we make our living by thinking up rules and then pretending they have been…

  • Diet pop culture: FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT.

    Another one from my homeslices at Everything is Terrible. Because I luff them. Includes an offensive Mr. Yunioshi-style cameo of a “Chinese” waiter, holy shit. Try adding some fat to your fat — you’ll be so fat, you might just fat yourself.

  • Er, hi there.

    So a lot of you have probably already seen it, but I wrote a little thingy for Kate Dailey’s awesome blog, The Human Condition, over at Newsweek, where they’re doing an interesting series of articles called The Fat Wars. I kind of didn’t know what to expect when I wrote it, but, as it turns…

  • Diet pop culture: Lucky Strike.

    “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet” is probably one of the more well-known taglines in advertising history. That doesn’t prevent it from creeping me the fuck out every time I encounter it. And you’ll never guess who the inspiration was for this little gem — In the November 19, 1948 issue of Printers’…

  • Eating – the WHAT or the HOW?

    This is going to come off kind of weird, but: I don’t actually care much what people eat. I will now take the remainder of this post to qualify that statement. Here’s what I mean: only in certain, limited contexts does WHAT a person eats play a direct role in their health. We’re talking deficiencies…