Category: obesity

• Out of breath, hungry and Spring Pesto Dip

  You could take away any of my many subscriptions before I’d let you touch my contract with The New Yorker. I pay a lot of money so they can deliver the world to my mailbox most weeks of the year. This is unlike our local newspaper whose mission, evidently, is to spotlight one overweight old…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 22, 2019

  Aging, Dip/sandwich spread, Exercise, Importance of exercise, Making new habits, Mind games and weight loss, obesity, Seniors and exercise

  Adam Gopnik, Alzheimer’s, Martha Stewart Living magazine, The New Yorker, Vegetables

• Depression — that big black bear — and obesity

  For a cogent discussion of the relationship between the two, see — surprise! —  an interview with the glamorous Charlize Theron in the May issue of Elle magazine. She gained 35 pounds to play an exhausted new mother in “Tully,” and says “I had depression for the first time in my life shooting this film.” Isn’t…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 17, 2018

  Aging, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Exercise, obesity, Seniors and weight loss, Working out

• Holy cow! Easy zucchini-tomato Parmesan

  Flipping between channels last night, I paused long enough on a PBS special about cancer research to hear an expert say something to the effect that obesity has finally passed smoking to be the #1 preventable cause of cancer!!! I think this was rattling around somewhere in my subconscious, but I’ve never heard overweight put…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 20, 2017

  Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, Food habits, Fresh herbs, healthy cooking, obesity, Seasonal food, Taking care of ourselves, vegetables

  basil, cheese, cooking from garden, nutrition, Tomatoes, zucchini