{"id":2008,"date":"2007-01-29T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:00","slug":"gorge-yourself-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gorge-yourself-in-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorge yourself in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.allrecipes.com\/site\/allrecipes\/area\/community\/userphoto\/small\/18710.jpg\"><br \/>\nFrom the February 2007 issue of <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/2007-02-01\/ministerofhealth.php\">Texas Monthly<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eating Myself Alive<\/p>\n<p>Jim Atkinson cures what ails us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M A BIG BELIEVER in New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resolutions. Nine years ago I decided to quit smoking, and while it took me a few months, in March of 1998 I stamped out my last butt. At the same time, I resolved not to gain any weight after giving up nicotine\u00e2\u20ac\u201da more difficult challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand began exercising at least an hour a day. Nearly a decade later, I weigh the same thing. This year? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m attacking my diet. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not just referring to cutting out the fries. Healthy eating is proactive: It means consuming more of those foods whose properties prevent such life shorteners as heart disease and cancer. With the help of Lona Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical dietetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve settled on ten things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to gorge on in 2007. Try my plan yourself\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand see how many years you can add to your life by eating more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are Jim&#8217;s top 10 things to gourge on. Read more in this month&#8217;s issue.<\/p>\n<p>1. Go upstream: salmon.<br \/>\n2. A tomato a day keeps the Big C away.<br \/>\n3. Synergy, baby: garlic.<br \/>\n4. Brown power, part I: whole-grain pasta.<br \/>\n5. Brown power, part II: whole-grain bread.<br \/>\n6. The new mayo: avocado.<br \/>\n7. Say yes to red meat.<br \/>\n8. Pintos with that?<br \/>\n9. Fig out.<br \/>\n10. Room for dessert? Cave to cantaloupe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, you may say, resolutions are good and well. But are there any caveats to this healthy feeding frenzy? Well, yes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtwo. The first is that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll still allow myself a cheeseburger or soft tacos once a week. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that the human body can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle any cholesterol or fat; it just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take too much of it. The second is that, even if I falter at incorporating one or two of my ten foods here, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m intent on, uh, staying the course. Because proactive eating is not just a year-long project\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lifelong one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the February 2007 issue of Texas Monthly. Eating Myself Alive Jim Atkinson cures what ails us. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M A BIG BELIEVER in New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resolutions. Nine years ago I decided to quit smoking, and while it took me a few months, in March of 1998 I stamped out my last butt. At the same time, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gorge-yourself-in-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gorge yourself in 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2414],"tags":[4665,4661,2977,2979,2978],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eats","tag-eats","tag-food","tag-gorge","tag-new-years-resolutions","tag-texas-monthly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}