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Under-delivering
I had a boss once tell me, “Never over-deliver. Why give something more than you agreed to?” I think this advice is good if your primary concern is quantity and not quality (meaning, those extra touches that make your user smile, not general quality). If, however, you want to take the time to create something…
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A matter of five months
So much can happen in five months. Although I viscerally knew the twins were itty bitty when they came home from the hospital, I was just scrolling through some of their early photos and find myself shocked at how small they were. Compare; their first day home from the hospital: After a few weeks at…
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Red meat and diabetes
Experts at the Harvard School of Public Health recently had a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the link between red meat consumption and type 2 diabetes. It’s the largest study of its kind. You can read the abstract here: http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2011/08/10/ajcn.111.018978.abstract?sid=c3e3247b-e031-48e8-bbb1-8a1fd1c877c9. You can read a review of the study here: http://news.yahoo.com/red-meat-boosts-diabetes-risk-us-study-161043220.html.…
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Jell-o is people (kind of)
We all know that gelatin is made from animal by-products (bones and whatnot) – now they’re making gelatin out of human genes (see the link below for the story from Fast Company). It looks like, so far, it’s being used for stabilizers for vaccines and perhaps in pill capsules. Regardless, I find it off-putting. http://www.fastcompany.com/1767744/coming-soon-human-derived-gelatin-in-your-marshmallows
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Protein
A question I get frequently concerns how I can manage to eat enough protein while pregnant without eating meat. My answer is that I eat dairy (milk, eggs, cottage cheese) and tofu. This tends to leave people skeptical that I don’t understand where protein comes from – oh but I do. And here’s an article…