About Town
Stuff Your Face!
Well ... Sort of.
When I read the headline, "The Dieter's Paradox," I was intrigued, especially since the news came from an Evanston source. After all, we're a city known as "The Dining Capital of the North Shore." Apparently, some folks at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management have concluded that our society's battle with obesity can be attributed, in part, to the "misguided belief about the relationship between a meal's healthiness and its impact on weight gain. People erroneously believe that eating healthy foods in addition to unhealthy ones can decrease a meal's calorie count." Seriously? Huzzah! That means that, for all the times I've ordered a pizza with a salad "on the side," I was making a mistake! OR, every Thanksgiving, when I've eaten …
