This is Day 5 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. This week, we’ve thought a lot about our eating habits: We’ve tested our knowledge of ultraprocessed foods, examined them with our senses, made flavor-packed snacks and shopped for groceries. Before this challenge, I would chuck food into my…
Aimee Tritt, a dietitian in Minneapolis, said she sees the same pattern over and over: People want to become healthier, so they abruptly overhaul their diets, only to burn out a few weeks later. If this has happened to you, know that you’re not a failure, said Ms. Tritt, who also teaches dietetics at the…
This is Day 4 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. So far, these challenges have kept you at home. You’ve scanned ingredients lists, conducted a taste test and zhuzhed up some snacks — all without straying too far from your kitchen. But today, we’re heading to a real-life…
This is Day 3 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. Americans are snacking more than ever. A recent survey suggested that 95 percent of us now eat at least one snack a day, and most of us eat two or more. When a craving hits, many people reach…
This is Day 2 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. I’m a Gen X-er, so ultraprocessed foods have been a mainstay of my diet since I was a kid. I was raised on bowls of sugary cereal, mac and cheese and instant ramen. I still crave them. And…
When we started brainstorming the topic for our annual challenge, we reached a consensus pretty quickly that it should be about ultraprocessed foods. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of scientific research on ultraprocessed foods and their links to certain health problems. Now many of us are looking at what we…
