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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-temptation-of-forbidden-fruit-why-i-cant-dukan/ Like many Australians, I spent the Christmas holidays growing as a person. Unfortunately, I’m talking literally. Over the summer months, I fed liberally from the five festive food groups: the rum ball group; the mayonnaise group; the house-made-of-stale-gingerbread group; the looks-like-the-placenta-scene-out-of-Poltergeist trifle group; and, of course, the furtive-third-helping-of-pavlova group. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-temptation-of-forbidden-fruit-why-i-cant-dukan/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-temptation-of-forbidden-fruit-why-i-cant-dukan/#item7709 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confessions-of-a-sugar-junkie/ Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confessions-of-a-sugar-junkie/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confessions-of-a-sugar-junkie/#item6478 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-make-stuff-up-alcohol-is-a-proven-killer/ When Cancer Council Australia published its recent estimate of the number of cancer cases in Australia linked to alcohol consumption, we didn’t expect the message to be popular. But we have a responsibility to provide independent, evidence-based information about cancer risk, enabling Australians to make informed choices. Many people may not want to know that something as popular as alcohol consumption increases their cancer risk – but that’s what the evidence says. And we believe everyone has a right to know about that evidence, whether it’s a “good news” story or not. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-make-stuff-up-alcohol-is-a-proven-killer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-make-stuff-up-alcohol-is-a-proven-killer/#item5862 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weight-watchers-for-men-more-fun-than-beer/ The average guy with a few kilos to lose has no time for celebrity-endorsed weight–loss programs, according to Weight Watchers in the United States. But he sure loves a good beer and a bit of joke at the expense of his mates, according to their new online advertising campaign (you can watch it in the video above). You can tell a Weight Watchers “kind of guy” by one of three possible outfits. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weight-watchers-for-men-more-fun-than-beer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weight-watchers-for-men-more-fun-than-beer/#item5709 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-cant-believe-its-not-splutter-butter-vs-margarine/ Butter is made by the simple act of churning cream. Margarine is a fake food that originated in a laboratory as a result of food science. It commonly contains a lengthy list of ingredients, like hydrogenated vegetable oil and artificial colours and flavours, to control its taste, texture and colour. In fact, margarine is pumped full of artificial colouring agents so it looks yellow like butter (we’re so easily fooled). There were once laws against dying artificial foods to look like natural foods. These days our governments are rarely bothered by chemically altered concoctions posing as food. We trust science now. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-cant-believe-its-not-splutter-butter-vs-margarine/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-cant-believe-its-not-splutter-butter-vs-margarine/#item4158 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/enough-with-all-the-meat-eating-all-ready/ People are discovering that food costs are soaring, electricity and government charges including water charges are on the increase and many families are needing to find savings in the family budget. If recent reports by the United Nations are any indication then the savings can come from this unexpected phenomenon. The worlwide non-profit initiative to promote Meatless Mondays and Fishless Fridays is encouraging the voluntary rationing of certain foods. This is not new as rationing was common practice during both World Wars.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/enough-with-all-the-meat-eating-all-ready/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/enough-with-all-the-meat-eating-all-ready/#item3956 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dying-to-be-thin/ Every single day for the past 3 years I have thought to myself, ‘I need to lose weight.’ That’s not an exaggeration. In fact I have thought it twice a day for the past 3 years. For the record, I’m a size 12 woman, and I weigh, dare I say it, 66 kilograms. For the past 3 years I have trained with a personal trainer twice a week and played netball twice a week. During the week I eat all the right things, on the weekend I might splurge and eat MacDonald’s and then feel extremely guilty afterwards. I’m fit, and I’m healthy. But my desire to lose weight is not to be healthy. I want to be thin. Really thin. And I don’t think I’m alone. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dying-to-be-thin/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dying-to-be-thin/#item3904 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/new-celebrity-chef-captures-hearts-may-also-stop-them/ If you’re sick of swallowing all the political chatter from Jules and Tony take a break and chew on something meaningful out of America. And it’s not President Obama’s eloquent speech at the White House Ramadan dinner, where he defended plans for a mosque at Ground Zero. Rather, meet Paula Deen, the self-described ‘Queen of Southern Cooking’. A woman that makes burgers using donuts as buns, lasagna sandwiches and single handedly butchers food to the point that she induces dry retching. The video above involving frozen cheesecake and a large pot of boiling oil should give you a sufficient introduction to Deen’s world. As she says: “Just when you thought you couldn’t make cheesecake any better!” feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/new-celebrity-chef-captures-hearts-may-also-stop-them/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/new-celebrity-chef-captures-hearts-may-also-stop-them/#item3826 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Overweight-people-should-get-over-the-criticism/ Why is it that when a health care professional informs a morbidly obese man that he should lose some weight, that mans first reaction is to cry ‘discrimination’?  Where is the prejudice in this situation?  As a society we are practically drowning in information about the inextricable link between being overweight and being unhealthy. If you think three square meals a day can be purchased through a drive-thru window, and that exercise is getting up to change the channel when you’ve lost the remote, then that should remove your right to feel offended when you’re handed an ample helping of the truth.  If someone who has spent the better part of a decade at medical school learning how to piece you back together if you break, tells you to drop a few kgs, they’re doing it for your own good.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Overweight-people-should-get-over-the-criticism/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Overweight-people-should-get-over-the-criticism/#item3191 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breakfast-from-hell-on-the-highway-to-heart-disease/ It’s finally happened. I never thought I would encounter a form of junk food which repulsed me. But on a holiday to the US last month I was confronted by a foodstuff so disgusting, so evil both in design and execution, so incredibly, inedibly putrid that my entire value system has been shocked to its core. Despite generally having a healthy diet, and spending hours flitting about the kitchen knocking up all sorts of effeminate dishes, such as a deeply suss saffron risotto with home-made chicken stock, or pesto with basil gathered from the garden in a poncy basket, I’ve long held a perverse enthusiasm for eating crap. The crapper the better. Dodgy kebabs, late-night chiko rolls, shallow-fried at home out of the box hidden in the back of the freezer, even those mysterious Hot Pizza Heroes from the local servo, turbo-charged before microwaving with the addition of extra cheese and half a handful of jalapeños. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breakfast-from-hell-on-the-highway-to-heart-disease/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/breakfast-from-hell-on-the-highway-to-heart-disease/#item2766 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Every morning I attempt to do well by the countless articles relevant to maintaining a healthy balanced diet. By the afternoon, all my good intention swirls down the throne due to a momentary lapse in judgment. Processed sugar, the supposed poison, became something I habitually consumed to remedy the three-thirtyitis. Fine occasionally, but when I needed it every day, I began to think I had a problem. At first I blamed boredom and a juiced up sweet tooth for my daily indulgence. This erroneous conclusion was purely based on the fact that I am one of those sorry sods who head to the gym at lunchtime to feel better about my dietary choices. And then make a bad choice because I went to the gym.