A recent study found that dieters who increased their whole-grain intake shed more belly fat than those eating refined grains — even though both groups ate the same number of calories! The whole-grain eaters also lowered their levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker associated with inflammation and increased risk of stroke.
So, in honor of [...]

From what I can tell on my end, Chubby Mommy is back in business with the exception of the category permalinks. Fixing them is going to take a bit more time than I’ve got available today, but I hope to get them working again this weekend.
Meanwhile, I’ve restored the blogroll and have I’added in the [...]

Part of the “behind-the-scenes” tweaking that I did over the weekend involved moving ChubbyMommy.com to a new server as well as to the root directory on that server. Previously, you’d been directed to http://www.chubbymommy.com/blog/ whereas now the site resolves to its URL.
I do have a redirection enabled to send people to the front page, but [...]

Oh, sure, it’s only 6°F outside my window right now, but I can sense that Spring is in the air.
How can I be so sure? All I need to do is glance at the huge amount of diet-related email hitting my InBox that promise things like: “Eat all you want and lose 10 lbs. [...]

Like a lot of senior citizens, my mother relies on Medicare coverage. She was also recently diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
The infuriating part? My mother is a retired oncology nurse — she spent 27 years caring for cancer patients, and so she’d been fanatic about keeping up with her own physicals, cancer screenings [...]

I know what you’re thinking: Tuna Loaf? Ewww. But don’t knock it before you’ve tried it. Not only is this meal inexpensive (tuna’s only $0.69 per can, after all), it’s also filling enough to satisfy my meat-loving husband yet yummy enough to please my two picky kids. As for me, I love that it’s quick, [...]

My son has been making the most of having Daddy home for the President’s Day holiday. Starting this morning, and continuing even as I type this, my son has almost exclusively pestered his father instead of me for a change.
It’s been quite nice. Until a day goes by when I’m not the parent in [...]

Some of you may have experienced what I found myself doing just the other night: I plunked down in front of my computer with a bag of potato chips to eat while reading email. Twenty minutes later I reached for another chip and… they were all gone. Where did they go? I didn’t remember eating [...]

Some time ago, I read that Courtney Love installed a lock on her refrigerator to keep herself from snacking. At the time I thought, “Gee, woman, just get some willpower!” But now?
Now I’m a lot more sympathetic. I’m also of the mind that locking my fridge wouldn’t simply prevent me from snacking and thereby ruining [...]

Ever since the news broke that your diet soda may be making you fat, pop-addicts have been anguishing over how to get their fizzy fix. (For Mad William it’s all about a caffeine delivery system.)
The good news? There may be a solution, but you won’t find it in the beverage aisle. Marketed by Virgil’s and [...]