healthy living

Healthy, frugal eating

Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer

Shopping, Health and Beauty, Food and Drink

Every so often, I get hit in the face with two facts. First, Americans (even poor Americans) are unbelievably rich. Second, Americans (as a group) utterly lack a cultural tradition that teaches us how to eat a healthy, frugal diet.

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The new face of poverty is fat

Posted 21 weeks 12 hours ago by Philip Brewer

Shopping, Health and Beauty, Food and Drink

Twenty years ago, I parked at a supermarket, near where a poor family had just parked. I knew they were poor, because they looked like poor folks are supposed to look: Their clothes were worn (but mended and clean). Their car was an aging sedan. They were recycling a trunkful of aluminum cans. As I locked my car, they took the handful of change they got for the cans, and headed in ahead of me. There were three of them--man, woman, child--and all three were skinny. It's unusual to see that now. The new face of poverty is fat.

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Get enough sleep

Posted 21 weeks 6 days ago by Philip Brewer

General Tips, Health and Beauty

I have a theory about sleep. My theory is this: everyone who routinely uses an alarm clock suffers from chronic sleep deprivation. Using an alarm clock a few times a year (to catch a plane or have a phone call with someone in another time zone) is fine. But routinely getting up before you wake up naturally is sleep deprivation, no matter how much it has become normal in today's world.

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Healthy recipes--with cost data

Posted 25 weeks 6 days ago by Philip Brewer

Shopping, Food and Drink, Budgeting, Freebies

Want to eat a cheap, healthy diet? Want some recipes that use real food instead of packaged food products? Want to argue about how much it costs to feed a family a healthy diet? Here's a free tool, created by the USDA, that will help you with any of those.

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