Innovation Can Help You Lose Weight

This is as true as your average fact concerning health and nutrition and it was found in a really great article by Janet Rae-Dupree in the New York Times when she spoke with Dawna Markova and M.J. Ryan. These two are business partners together studying how people learn, hence, their focus on thinking differently and being innovative. In their studies they saw a reference to a study in the Utne Reader a couple of years ago that related the process of stretching ones mind, thinking differently, and thus being creative, contributed to weight loss.

If there weren't enough reasons to try and think differently, well, here's one that is, well, a bit different.

Speaking of nutrition and facts, I just saw a talk Michael Pollan, of the Omnivore's Dilemma, gave at Google on his new book, which he describes as the solution to the dilemma. He gives what I think is practical advice by advising to stick to the edges of the grocery store and concentrate on eating foods that are fresh. The most controversial part of his talk is when he says that nutrition, in general, doesn't work. Yeah. What he's talking about is that people just don't know what's in an apple that gives us great vitamins. You can't take out the particular vitamin and have it make the same affect on your body, it isn't even always positive. You have to eat the actual apple. He compares the state of nutrition science to surgery in the 1600s.

So basically, today we don't really know what makes a person healthy or unhealthy. We do know that eating vegetables makes you more healthy, but that's about it.

Eat vegetables, enjoy life, and do something new. This may be a good, simple recipe to keeping healthy and exercising your creative skills. Oh, and learn more by watching the video linked above, and reading the story, also linked above. They were easily the most interesting things I have looked at all week.